1947
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Events
Dated Events
- Real World: January 24. A monarchist government is established in Greece by Demetrios Maximos.
- Real World: February 12. A meteor hits near Sikhote-Alin in the USSR, forming a crater.
- Real World: February 17. The Voice of America begins broadcasting to the Soviet Union.
- Real World: February 20. Prussia ceases to exist.
- Real World: March 1. The International Monetary Fund goes into operation.
- Real World: March 12. U.S. President Harry Truman proclaims the Truman Doctrine, tasking America with stopping the spread of communism.
- Real World: April 15. Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play on a previously whites-only major-league baseball team.
- Real World: April 16. The Texas City Disaster, where a French ship containing a load of ammonium nitrate explodes in Texas City's harbor: 600 killed or missing, 2000 injured.
- Real World: June 5. The Marshall Plan is outlined, detailing America's plans to help Europe rebuild.
- Real World: July 4. A strange object crashes outside the city of Roswell.
- Star Trek, Star Trek (Expanded Universe): July 4. Quark, Nog, and Rom cause the Roswell incident. ("Little Green Men" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine))
- Real World: July 8. Roswell Army Air Field claims that the object was a U.F.O. and that alien bodies were retrieved from the wreckage.
- Real World: July 9. U.S. Air Force officials change their story on the Roswell crash, claiming the object was a weather balloon.
- Real World: July 26. U.S. President Truman signs the National Security Act into law, creating the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.
- Real World: August 15. India and Pakistan become independent from the British Empire.
- Real World: October 14. Captain Chuck Yeager, an American test pilot, breaks the sound barrier in level flight.
- Real World: October 20. The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 begins.
- Real World: November 24. The so-called "Hollywood 10" are held in contempt of Congress when they refuse to aid the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- Real World: November 25. The "Hollywood 10" are blacklisted in Hollywood.
- Real World: November 29. The United Nations Security Council votes to partition Palestine, dividing it between Arabs and Jews.
Undated Events
- DC (Pre-Crisis), DC (Post-Crisis), DC (Post-Zero Hour): Quicksilver quietly disappears. (Flash Secret Files #1)
- Real World: The first commercial microwave oven is marketed by Raytheon.
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Events of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
New Fictional Works
Notable Books
Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert Heinlein.
Notable Films
The Beast with Five Fingers, Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, Dick Tracy's Dilemma, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Last of the Redmen, Miracle on 34th Street, Sinbad the Sailor, Song of the Thin Man.
Notable Comic Books
Batman #38 (first appearance of the Penguin), Four Color Comics #178 (first Uncle Scrooge).
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