In 1947, affidavits were filed with the Commission by various clear-channel stations alleging that extensive interference was being caused to the service areas of these stations during daylight hours, from class 2, stations whose signals were being reflected from the ionosphere so as to create skywave intereference.

This illusion was described in a far-sighted editorial in The New York Herald Tribune, on March 5, 1947, in connection with the submission of the satellite peace treaties to the Senate.

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.

Now 38, Mr. Simpkins was graduated from the University of Maryland's College of Agriculture in 1947.

Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

His father, Julius Mathison Turing ( 1873 – 1947 ), was a member of an old aristocratic family of Scottish descent who worked for the Indian Civil Service ( the ICS ).

* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

In 1947, British rule in the South Asia was replaced by the sovereign, independent nations of India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh, resulting in the migration of millions people and significant loss of life and property.

The penal colony was eventually closed on August 15, 1947 when India gained its independence.

In 1947 a major oil field was discovered near Edmonton.

The name Van Mahotsava ( the festival of trees ) originated in July 1947 after a successful tree-planting drive was undertaken in Delhi, in which national leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Rajendra Prasad and Abdul Kalam Azad participated.

It was consolidated with other purchases as the Combined Insurance Co. of America in 1947.

It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest and most prestigious scientific and educational computing society.

Their first hit was Brigadoon ( 1947 ), a romantic fantasy set in a mystical Scottish village, directed by Robert Lewis.

Li ' l Abner was censored for the first, but not the last time in September 1947, and was pulled from papers by Scripps-Howard.

Alphonse Gabriel " Al " Capone ( January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947 ) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.

In 1947, Bardot was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris, and for three years she attended the ballet classes of Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev.

At the same time, a " gentlemen's agreement " was struck between the clubs to exclude non-white players from professional baseball, a bar that remained until 1947.

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.

William Frederick Schelter ( 1947 – July 30, 2001 ) was a professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin and a Lisp developer and programmer.

The British wrested control of the city from the Ottomans during World War I and it was to be included in an international zone under the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

In the United Nations General Assembly's 1947 resolution to partition Palestine, Bethlehem was included in the special international enclave of Jerusalem to be administered by the United Nations.

A third burst, Charlie, planned for 1947, was canceled primarily because of the Navy's inability to decontaminate the target ships after the Baker test.

* Count " Beat " Takeshi ( ビートたけし ; Kitano, born 18 January 1947 ) — The lord of the castle and eventual target of the competition.

He had been the target of the New York Wilson Pakula Act in 1947 aimed at restricting candidates from one party running in another party's primary election electoral fusion.

Gray appeared in two 1947 films noir: in Kiss of Death as ex-con Victor Mature's wife and Richard Widmark's target, and in Nightmare Alley as " Electra ", Tyrone Power's carnival performer wife.

* 1947 – Major Harris, American singer

In 1987, both the National and American League Rookie of the Year Awards were renamed the " Jackie Robinson Award " in honor of the first recipient ( Robinson's Major League Rookie of the Year Award in 1947 encompassed both leagues ).

Johnny Lee Bench ( born December 7, 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) is a former professional baseball catcher who played in the Major Leagues for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983 and is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Williams was referring to two of the most famous names in the Negro Leagues, who were not given the opportunity to play in the Major Leagues before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947.

LaGuardia was, in turn, followed by Major General Lowell Ward Rooks ( 1 January 1947 to 30 September 1948 ).

After the Communists seized power in Romania in 1947, he headed the Ministry of Agriculture, then served as Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces under Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, becoming a Major General.

Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. ( born on January 31, 1947 ), nicknamed " The Ryan Express ", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

Jackie Robinson's first season in the Major Leagues came in 1947, and Campanella began his Major League career with the Brooklyn Dodgers the following season, playing his first game on April 20, 1948.

* Plaquemine was the birthplace of Major League Baseball Pitcher Bill Lee, who pitched from 1934 – 1947 for the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies and the Boston Braves.

* Glenn Adams ( 1947 ), Major League Baseball player

* Elliott Maddox ( born 1947 ), Major League Baseball outfielder who played for both the New York Mets and New York Yankees.

* Curt Simmons, former Major League Baseball player from 1947 – 1967, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, and California Angels.

* Lou Brissie, Major League Baseball player with the Philadelphia Athletics and Cleveland Indians from 1947 to 1953.

Major recordings include the Bach Cello Suites in 1960 ( Paris ) and 1982 ( London ), Elgar's Cello Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult conducting in 1972, and Strauss ’ s Don Quixote with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham conducting in 1947 / 48 and the Staatskapelle Dresden, Rudolf Kempe conducting in 1973 ( all for EMI for whom he was under exclusive contract ).

Shortly thereafter, Major ( later Colonel ) William J. L. Lyster ( 1869 – 1947 ) of the Army Medical Department used a solution of calcium hypochlorite in a linen bag to treat water.

* Major Harris ( born Major Harris III, February 9, 1947, Richmond, Virginia ) ( from 1971 to 1974 )

King-Clark was promoted Captain in 1942 and Major in 1947 ( although he was already acting in that rank ).

In an article in the July 1952 issue of SPORT, Speaker recounted how Bill Veeck hired him to be a coaching consultant to Larry Doby, who in 1947 had become the American League's first black player and just the second player to cross the baseball color barrier in Major League Baseball.

Raymond Earl Fosse ( born April 4, 1947 in Marion, Illinois ) is a former professional baseball player who was a catcher in the Major Leagues.

OED cites " big league " as specifically American Major League Baseball, and cites its first use in 1899 ; the non-baseball use appears in 1947.

The airport was renamed Detroit-Wayne Major Airport in 1947 and over the next three years expanded in size threefold as three more runways were built.

From 1945 to 1947 he served in India where he was a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

José Cruz Dilan ( born August 8, 1947 in Arroyo, Puerto Rico ) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.