* 1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1947 – Mike Worboys, British mathematician

* 1947 – André Weinfeld, French and American Film Director / Producer

* 1947 – Alex Briley, American singer ( Village People )

* 1947 – Tom Clancy, American author

* 1947 – Woody Johnson, American businessman and philanthropist

* 1947 – Antonin Kratochvil, Czech-American photographer

* 1947 – Dan Lauria, American actor

* 1947 – David Letterman, American comedian and talk show host

* 1947 – Wayne Northrop, American actor

* 1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.

* 1947 – Leslie Grantham, English actor

* 1947 – Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer and composer

* 1947 – Tom Køhlert, Danish footballer

* 1947 – Manousos Manousakis, Greek director and producer

* 1947 – Mats Odell, Swedish politician

* 1947 – Barbara Bach, American actress

* 1947 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and writer ( d. 2009 )

* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer

* 1947 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( d. 2002 )

* 1947 – Harry Reems, American actor

* 1947 – Tony Dell, Australian cricketer

* 1874 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Roy Hodgson, English footballer and manager

* Sanders, Kellie R., “‘ The Wednesday Monster ’: The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward F5 Tornado of April 9, 1947 ,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 80 ( 2008 ), 23 – 44.

The Pryor tornado ranks as the fifth deadliest in Oklahoma history behind tornadoes at Woodward in 1947, Snyder in 1905, Peggs in 1920, and Antlers in 1945.

The 1947 Glazier – Higgins – Woodward tornadoes was a system of related tornadoes that swept through Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas on April 9, 1947.

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Graham Frederick Young ( 10 September 1947 – 1 August 1990 ) was an English serial killer who used poison to kill his victims.

On 29 November 1947, the General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of a " Plan of Partition with Economic Union " as Resolution 181 ( II ).

After the Arab rejection of the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine ( UN General Assembly Resolution 181 ) that would have created an Arab state and a Jewish state side by side, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria attacked the state of Israel.

The majority of the members of UNSCOP proposed certain recommendations for the UN General Assembly which on 29 November 1947 adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of the Partition Plan, based substantially on those proposals as Resolution 181 ( II ).

On 29 November 1947 the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 on ' The future constitution and government of Palestine ' setting forth a ' Plan of Partition with Economic Union '.

In 1947, he was appointed as a liaison officer to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, where he was successful in attaining approval for the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab segments — Resolution 181.

** Resolution 181: The 1947 UNGA ' Partition resolution ' regarding the British Mandate of Palestine.

On 29 November 1947, the General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of the Plan as Resolution 181 ( II ).

On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending to the United Kingdom, as the mandatory Power for Palestine, and to all other Members of the United Nations the adoption and implementation, with regard to the future government of Palestine, of the Plan of Partition with Economic Union as Resolution 181 ( II ).

WJC officials lobbied UN member states in favor of the adoption of UN General Assembly Resolution 181 of 1947, which called for the creation of a Jewish and an Arab state in Palestine.

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 ( II ) Future Government of Palestine, adopted in 1947, referred to " Samaria and Judea " as part of a proposed Arab state to be carved out of the Mandate of Palestine but the boundaries of " Samaria and Judea " did not precisely coincide with the current Judea and Samaria area.

This international day commemorates the adoption of General Assembly Resolution 181 ( II ) in 1947, which advocated for the partition of Palestine into two States: one Arab and one Jewish.

On 29 November 1947, the General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending to the United Kingdom, as the mandatory Power for Palestine, and to all other Members of the United Nations the adoption and implementation, with regard to the future government of Palestine, of the Plan of Partition with Economic Union, ( a slightly amended version of the plan in Chapter VI of the report of 3 September 1947 ), as Resolution 181 ( II ) ).

The plan proposed by the majority in Chapter VI of the report of 3 September 1947, with only slight modifications to the proposed recommendations, became the Plan of Partition with Economic Union attached to General Assembly Resolution 181 ( II ) adopted on 29 November 1947.

On 29 November 1947 the UN General Assembly recommended the adoption and implementation of a plan substantially in the form of The Plan of Partition with Economic Union in CHAPTER VI: PROPOSED RECOMMENDATIONS ( II ), as Resolution 181 ( II ).

Apart from colleges, in 1947 there were 31, 975 public and elementary schools, 720 secondary schools for boys and 4, 173 elementary and 181 secondary schools for girls.

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Edrich played 181 first-class matches for Kent and Glamorgan between 1947 and 1956, scoring 5, 529 runs.