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| 1947 |
| | | Francis Poulenc makes an opera of Guillaume Apollinaire's play Les Mamelles de Tirésias ('The Breasts of Tiresias') | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Thor Heyerdahl sets sail across the Pacific from Peru in a balsa wood boat, the Kon-Tiki | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Bertolt Brecht's play The Life of Galileo has its premiere in Los Angeles with Charles Laughton in the lead | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Marlon Brando stars on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar named Desire | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Hungarian-born British engineer Dennis Gabor creates the first three-dimensional image from reflected light, subsequently known as a hologram | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Saxophonist 'Bird' Parker forms his own quintet in New York, often to be heard at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem | |
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| 1947 |
| | | 33-year old Aung San, prime minister of Burma, and six of his ministers are assassinated during a cabinet meeting | |
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| 1947 |
| | | In granting independence to India, Britain partitions the subcontinent along sectarian lines into Pakistan and the republic of India | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, becomes also the first governor-general | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Jawaharlal Nehru becomes prime minister of the newly independent republic of India | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Muslim leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes the first governor-general of the new state of Pakistan | |
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| 1947 |
| | | J.B. Priestley challenges audiences with An Inspector Calls, a play in which moral guilt spreads like an infection | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Baseball-player Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American in a major league team | |
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| 1947 |
| | | French designer Christian Dior introduces the 'New Look', a lavish feminine style of dress welcomed by all after wartime austerity | |
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| 1947 |
| | | US artist Jackson Pollock's drip paintings cause a stir in New York | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Muslims proclaim an independent state in west Kashmir, defying the wishes of the maharaja | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Italian author Primo Levi publishes If This Is a Man, based on his experiences in Auschwitz | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Violent sectarian division in Kashmir results in war between India and Pakistan in support of the rival sides | |
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| 1947 |
| | | The UN puts forward a plan for the partition of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Stafford Cripps becomes Britain's chancellor of the Exchequer in the Attlee government | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Jean-Louis Barrault and his wife Madeleine Renaud establish their own company at the Théâtre Marigny in Paris | |
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| c. 1947 |
| | | An Arab boy, herding goats in the Qumran desert, finds the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls | |
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| 1947 |
| | | The first transistor is produced in the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated at a Delhi prayer meeting by a Hindu extremist, Nathuram Godse | |
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| 1948 |
| | | US zoologist Alfred Charles Kinsey publishes some unexpected findings in his Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male | |
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| 1948 |
| | | An armed coup, led by Klement Gottwald, imposes single-party Communist rule in Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The British government advertises in Jamaica for people to come and work in Britain | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The Cello Sonata by US composer Elliott Carter introduces 'metric modulation' | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Norman Mailer has immediate succes with his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, based on his military service in the Pacific | |
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| 1948 |
| | | US poet Theodore Roethke publishes The Lost Son, his second collection | |
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| 1948 |
| | | British dancer Robert Helpmann choreographs the ballet scenes in the film The Red Shoes, featuring Moira Shearer | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Australia, aiming for a 2% population increase each year, takes steps to encourage European immigration | |
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| 1948 |
| | | U Saw, a political rival of Aung San in Burma, is hanged for having plotted his assassination | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The Morris Minor is launched, designed by Alec Issigonis, and becomes one of Britain's best-selling cars | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Israel declares its independence as a new Jewish state, with David Ben-Gurion as prime minister | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Six Arab states attack Israel in support of the Palestinians, starting the first Arab-Israeli war | |
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