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April 15 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play Major League Baseball since the 1880s. April 16 Texas City Disaster : The ammonium nitrate cargo of French-registered Liberty ship SS Grandcamp explodes in Texas City, Texas , killing at least 581, including all but one member of the city fire department, injuring at least ...
1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.
1947 – Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier in baseball 1947 – Studebaker becomes the first automobile manufacturer to introduce a "post-war" model; most automakers wait until 1948 or 1949 1947 – Jackson Pollock begins painting his most famous series of paintings called the drip paintings in Easthampton, New York
Cold War (1947–1991) Second Red Scare (1947–1957) Civil rights era (1954–1968) Space Race (1957–1975) Second-wave feminism (1960s–1970s) New Great Migration (1965–present) Détente (c. 1969 –1979) 1970s energy crisis (1973–1980) Reagan Era (1980–1994) Neoconservatism (1980s and 1990s) Dot-com bubble (c. 1995 –2000)
January 1947 events in the United States (1 C, 1 P) February 1947 events in the United States (2 P) March 1947 events in the United States (1 C, 5 P)
A 1947 booklet published by the Catholic Catechetical Guild Educational Society raising the specter of a Communist takeover The House Un-American Activities Committee , with young Congressman Richard M. Nixon playing a central role, accused Alger Hiss , a top Roosevelt aide, of being a communist spy, using testimony and documents provided by ...
The United States and other major Allied powers became the foundation of the UN Security Council. [210] The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created in 1947. [211] One of a number of posters created by the Economic Cooperation Administration, an agency of the U.S. government, to sell the Marshall Plan in Europe
Timeline of the Kashmir conflict (1947–present) Timeline of Colombian armed conflict (1962–present) Timeline of Bangladesh Liberation War (1971) Timeline of the Gulf War (1990–1991) Timeline of the Algerian Civil War (1991–2002) Timeline of the Croat–Bosniak War (1992–1994) Timeline of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu (1993)