* 1947: Charles Ives, Symphony No. 3

The river Great Ouse at St Ives flooded in 1947, and some parts suffered seriously again at Easter 1998 and in January 2003.

Ives was born in 1909 near Hunt City, an unincorporated town in Jasper County, Illinois near Newton, Illinois ; the son of Levi " Frank " Ives ( 1880 – 1947 ) and Cordelia " Dellie " White ( 1882 – 1954 ).

In 1947 he received the Frederic Ives Medal.

Despite his moderate reputation, Ives supported the Taft – Hartley Act in 1947 and voted to override President Harry S. Truman's veto of the same ; he subsequently lost his longstanding support from labor unions.

The summer of 1947 was spent in St. Ives ( as were consecutive summers until 1956 when the family moved permanently from London to Cornwall ) followed by his first London exhibition at Redfern Gallery in October.

The strongest recorded earthquakes in the region occurred on 5 April 1959, with its epicentre at Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye and a recorded intensity of 6. 5 at Barcelonnette, and on 17 February 1947, with its epicentre at Prazzo over the Italian border.

Also in 1947, the Whiskey à Go-Go nightclub opened in Paris, France, considered to be the world's first commercial discothèque, or disco ( deriving its name from the French word meaning a nightclub where the featured entertainment is recorded music rather than an on-stage band ).

Years later, Arturo Toscanini recorded the music for RCA Victor with the NBC Symphony Orchestra which complements the 1947 Toscanini performance of the complete opera.

Also, this period saw one of the largest mass migrations ever recorded in modern history, with a total of 12 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims moving between the newly created nations of India and Pakistan ( which gained independence on 15 and 14 August 1947 respectively ).

A 1947 article in the New York Folklore Quarterly recorded the classic shaggy dog story "' Murgatroyd the Kluge Maker ' then current in the Armed Forces, in which a ' kluge ' was a complex and puzzling artifact with a trivial function.

* Bing Crosby recorded another duet version, and hit the top-20 in 1947 with Al Jolson.

In 1947, BBC Light Programme aired an episode of their Theatre Programme which featured an analysis of the play by Ralph Richardson and scenes recorded from John Burrell's Edinburgh Festival production starring Trevor Howard and Patricia Burke.

In recent years, a number of his compositions ( notably championed by the violinist, Paul Zukofsky ) have been recorded and made available on CD, including three of his string quartets, the three symphonies, a rhapsody for orchestra, and four solo piano works: his Sonata, Dance Suite, Piece in Seven Movements ( 1935 – 37 ) and Seven Pieces ( 1947 ).

His predictions include the End of the World in 1977, Benito Mussolini's last stand in Ethiopia, egg-shaped cars, and more during sermons recorded from 1947 to 1965.

In 1947, pianist Thelonious Monk recorded his first sessions as a leader for the label, which were also the Blue Note debut of drummer Art Blakey.

Youth Foundation, in 1947 was recorded, and has appeared on numerous comedy albums.

The hottest temperature recorded in Lincoln was 117 ° F ( 47 ° C ) in 1947 ; the coldest temperature recorded was-27 ° F (- 33 ° C ) in 1989.

He recorded another version of the song in 1947 for Decca ; to this day, Crosby's recording of " White Christmas " for Decca remains the best-selling single worldwide of all time.

Poulenc himself was a pianist in many recordings, including some of his own songs ( with Pierre Bernac, recorded in 1947, and Rose Dercourt ) and the Concerto for Two Pianos ( recorded in May 1957 ).

The NBC broadcasts were preserved on large transcription discs, recorded at both 78-rpm and 33-1 / 3 rpm, until NBC began using magnetic tape in 1947.

" a single recorded by Dorsey became a top ten hit in March, 1947.

American Baritone Nelson Eddy recorded 35 Foster songs over three recording sessions in July, August and September 1947 on Columbia records, in 78 format, 2 songs per record.

He recorded his version of the song in 1947 and it became an instant classic.

The coldest temperature recorded at Writtle was − 20. 6 ° C (− 5. 1 ° F ) on 29 January 1947.

Among the first RCA LPs released was a performance of Gaîté Parisienne by Jacques Offenbach, played by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, which had actually been recorded in Boston's Symphony Hall on June 20, 1947 ; it was given the catalogue number LM-1001.

After World War II, he recorded for Brunswick in 1944, Victor in 1946, and Apollo in 1947.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

One award was presented for both leagues in 1947 and 1948 ; since 1949, the honor has been given to one player each in the National and American League.

The first Blue Angel Flight Demonstration Squadron ( 1946 – 1947 ), assembled in front of one of their F6F Hellcat s ( l to r ): Lt. Al Taddeo, Solo ; Lt.

In 1947 almost one in five films had been comic in nature, but by 1954 this was down to ten percent.

As a result of the Attlee Government ’ s initiatives in agriculture, there was a 20 % increase in output between 1947 and 1952, while Britain adopted one of the most mechanised and efficient farming industries in the world.

As George Gamow put in his science-popularizing book, One, Two, Three ... Infinity ( 1947 ), " The metallic substances differ from all other materials by the fact that the outer shells of their atoms are bound rather loosely, and often let one of their electrons go free.

The Canadian Citizenship Act of 1947 provided for a distinct Canadian Citizenship, automatically conferred upon most individuals born in Canada, with some exceptions, and defined the conditions under which one could become a naturalized citizen.

As one of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.

The contract lasted from 1947 to 1967, and included more than 650 recordings, making Day one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century.

The 1947 Grand Final has to go down in the ledger as ' one of the ones that got away ', Essendon losing to Carlton by a single point despite managing 30 scoring shots to 21.

Prior to 1947, the only definition of first-class cricket had been one in Great Britain that dated from a meeting at Lord's in May 1894 between the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) committee and the secretaries of the clubs involved in the official County Championship, which had begun in 1890.

* Belgium: Decrees of 1946 and 1947 set legal time as one hour ahead of GMT.

Greenberg played first base for the Pirates in 1947 and was one of the few opposing players to publicly welcome Jackie Robinson to the majors.

The subcontinent gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, after the British provinces were partitioned into the dominions of India and Pakistan and the princely states all acceded to one of the new states.

Robinson was one of only two players during the span of 1947 – 56 to accumulate at least 125 steals while registering a slugging percentage over. 425 ( Minnie Miñoso was the other ).

She made one British film as well, the 1947 film version of Uncle Silas, starring Jean Simmons.

The archive consists of about nineteen thousand drawings and prints, one thousand of which are by the designer and architect Lilly Reich ( 1885 – 1947 ), Mies van der Rohe's close collaborator from 1927 to 1937 ; of written documents ( primarily, the business correspondence ) covering nearly the entire career of the architect ; of photographs of buildings, models, and furniture ; and of audiotapes, books, and periodicals.

J. Lyons and Co., one of the UK's leading catering and food manufacturing companies in the first half of the 20th century, sent two of its senior managers, Oliver Standingford and Raymond Thompson, to the USA in 1947 to look at new business methods developed during the Second World War.

Also in March 1947, former U. S. President Herbert Hoover, in one of his reports from Germany, argued for a change in U. S. occupation policy, amongst other things stating:

* 1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.

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.

Musharraf and his family left for Pakistan on one of the last safe trains in August 1947, a few days before the partition of India took effect.

The Constitution of Western Australia does not explicitly provide for a premier, and the office was not formally listed as one of the executive offices until the appointment of Ross McLarty in 1947.

From 1947 Nevanlinna had a chair in the University of Zurich, which he held on a half-time basis after receiving in 1948 a permanent position as one of the 12 salaried Academicians in the newly created Academy of Finland.