On the morning of March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman appeared before Congress to ask for $ 400 million of aid to Greece and Turkey.

* 1947 – Proceedings of the U. S. Congress are televised for the first time.

Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister in 1947, and re-elected when the Congress party won India's first general election in 1951.

Even though since the 1940s, PAN had won a couple of seats in the Congress, and in 1947 the first presidential municipality ( in Quiroga, Michoacán ), it wasn't until 1989, that the first non-PRI governor of a state was elected ( at Baja California ).

Members of the Republican-dominated 80th Congress ( 1947 – 1949 ) were skeptical.

The clause also embraces a right to travel, so that a citizen of one state can go and enjoy privileges and immunities in any other state ; this constitutional clause was expressly extended to Puerto Rico by the U. S. Congress through the federal law and signed by the President Harry S. Truman in 1947.

After its adoption by the First Pan African Congress in 1947, the Three-Stage Chronology was amended by the Third Congress in 1955 to include a First Intermediate Period between Early and Middle, to encompass the Fauresmith and Sangoan technologies, and the Second Intermediate Period between Middle and Later, to encompass the Magosian technology and others.

In retaliation, Warner-during his 1947 testmony before Congress, for making the 1942 Russian propaganda film Mission to Moscow – accused a number of studio employees of having ties to Communists.

The National Security Act of 1947 (, codified at ) was an Act of Congress signed by President Truman on, and realigned and reorganized the U. S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War II.

Taft – Hartley was one of more than 250 union-related bills pending in both houses of Congress in 1947.

When Lord Louis Mountbatten formally proposed the plan on 3 June 1947, Patel gave his approval and lobbied Nehru and other Congress leaders to accept the proposal.

New York City librarian Robert W. Henderson documented Cartwright's contributions to baseball in his 1947 book Bat, Ball, and Bishop, which Congress cited in recognizing Cartwright as the inventor of the modern game.

* Joseph J. Mansfield ( 1861 – 1947 ), American Congress representative from Texas

The Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947.

The Congress proposed the Twenty-second Amendment on March 24, 1947.

Truman directed the Secretary of the Treasury, John W. Snyder to attend all meetings and Congress amended the National Security Act of 1947 to eliminate the three service secretaries from Council membership and add the Vice President ( who assumed second rank from the Secretary of State ) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff who became permanent advisers to the Council.

Acheson devised the policy and wrote Truman's 1947 request to Congress for aid to Greece and Turkey, a speech which stressed the dangers of totalitarianism rather than Soviet aggression and marked the fundamental change in American foreign policy that became known as the Truman Doctrine.

However, he defeated Lovette in 1932 and returned to Congress, serving until 1947, when he stepped down to devote his full energies to serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee, a position he had held since 1946.

In March 1947, President Truman appeared before Congress and used Kennan's Containment policy as the basis for what became known as the Truman Doctrine.

President Truman made the proclamation in an address to the U. S. Congress on March 12, 1947, amid the crisis of the Greek Civil War ( 1946 – 1949 ).

The U. S. Congress in May, 1947, responding to Truman's plea, granted Greece $ 400 million in military and economic aid.

Ring Lardner Jr. ( far right ) with eight others of the Hollywood 10 charged with contempt of Congress in 1947.

The Church of South India was formed in 1947 by the union of Anglican, Methodist, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, and Reformed churches.

On 15 May 1947, the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations resolved ( Resolution 106 ) that a committee, United Nations Special Committee on Palestine ( UNSCOP ), be created " to prepare for consideration at the next regular session of the Assembly a report on the question of Palestine ".

By the end of 1946, the Communist Democratic Army of Greece had been formed, pitted against the governmental National Army, which was backed first by Britain and after 1947 by the United States.

* 2001 – The United States loses its seat on the U. N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.

The armed forces were formed in 1947 when Pakistan became independent from the British Empire.

Before 1947, most military officers of the newly formed Pakistan Armed Forces had served in the British Indian Army and fought in both World Wars and the numerous Anglo-Afghan Wars.

Together with Ivorian leader Félix Houphouët-Boigny and others, he formed the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain ( RDA ) in 1946 and, in 1947, the Parti Progressiste Africain.

It was formed from the northern part of the French Occupation Zone, which included parts of Bavaria ( the Rhenish Palatinate ), the southern parts of the Prussian Rhine Province ( including the District of Birkenfeld which formerly belonged to Oldenburg ), parts of the Prussian Province of Nassau ( see Hesse-Nassau ), and parts of Hesse-Darmstadt ( Rhinehessen on the western banks of the Rhine ); the constitution was legally confirmed by referendum on 18 May 1947.

No earlier evidence of human occupation has been found, but the island almost certainly formed part of the land bridge used for the settlement of Australia and New Guinea by at least 40, 000 BC There is no evidence of Homo erectus having reached Sulawesi ; crude stone tools first discovered in 1947 on the right bank of the Walennae river at Berru, which were thought to date to the Pleistocene on the basis of their association with vertebrate fossils, are now thought to date to perhaps 50, 000 BC

" Cryptic was formed as a corporation in California by Jay Clem ( born 1947 ), Homer Flynn ( born April 1945 ), Hardy W. Fox ( born 1945 ), and John Kennedy in 1976, all of whom denied having been band members.

In 1947, a secret Trust was formed by members of the family to retain effective control over the company.

The borders of present-day Bangladesh were established with the partition of Bengal and India in 1947, when the region became East Pakistan, part of the newly formed Islamic State of Pakistan.

An open-wheeled DB7 appeared in 1947, after which the Automobiles Deutsch & Bonnet was officially formed.

In 1994 / 5, the Air Force published a report which concluded that Mogul Flight # 4, launched from Alamogordo, New Mexico, on June 4, 1947, was what crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, and formed the source of the debris which sparked the Roswell UFO Incident.

UNECE was formed in 1947, and their first major act to improve transportation was a joint UN declaration no.

The University of Minnesota Duluth ( UMD ) became part of the system in 1947, though the campus has a history stretching back to 1895 when it was formed as the Normal School at Duluth.

Aviation Traders Limited ( ATL ) was a war-surplus aircraft and spares trader formed in 1947.

After the collapse of the Soviet-backed Kurdish Mahabad Republic in Iran in early 1947, Ibrahim Ahmad, previously the Sulaymaniyah representative of the Iranian KDP ( from now on referred to as KDP-I ), joined the newly formed Iraqi KDP.

In 1947 Eckert and Mauchly formed the first computer company, the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation ( EMCC ); Mauchly was president.

Similar movements concurrently formed in many other countries, leading to the formation, at a 1947 meeting in Montreux, Switzerland, of a global coalition, now called World Federalist Movement.

In June, he was named director of the Central Intelligence Group, predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency formed in 1947.

Shrewsbury ’ s new fire engine house and state-of-the-art equipment were dedicated in 1947 ; it was during this period that the Shrewsbury Garden Club was formed to maintain the beautiful trees and flowers throughout the city.

Several liberal members of SAG, led by Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Danny Kaye, and Gene Kelly formed the Committee for the First Amendment ( CFA ) and flew to Washington, DC, in late October 1947 to show support for the Hollywood Ten.

The present municipality was formed in 1971, when the market town ( köping ) Boxholm ( itself instituted in 1947 ) was amalgamated with Södra Göstring and a parish ( Rinna ) from the dissolved municipality of Folkunga.