* Harrison Tweed ( 1947 – 1961 )

After practicing law for several years with the firm Milbank, Tweed & Hope, King became one of the United States prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials, serving from 1946 to 1947.

Starting in 1947, Tweed was chairman of the ALI-American Bar Association ( ABA ) joint committee on continuing legal education.

Besides Dick Tracy, Capp parodied many other comic strips in Li ' l Abner — including Steve Canyon, Superman ( at least twice ; first as " Jack Jawbreaker " in 1947, and again in 1966 as " Chickensouperman "), Mary Worth, Peanuts, Rex Morgan, M. D., Little Annie Rooney and Little Orphan Annie ( in which Punjab became " Punjbag ," an oleaginous slob ).

The award became national in 1947 ; Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers ' first baseman, won the inaugural award.

Many refugees from areas captured by Israeli forces in 1947 – 48 fled to the Bethlehem area, primarily settling in the what became the official refugee camps of ' Azza ( Beit Jibrin ) and ' Aida in the north and Dheisheh in the south.

Established in 1927 near Panama City, on the Florida panhandle, Bob Jones College moved to Cleveland, Tennessee in 1933, and to its present campus in Greenville, South Carolina in 1947, where it became Bob Jones University.

The article describes the concepts that became the foundation of United States Cold War policy and was published in Foreign Affairs in 1947.

In 1947, he claims to have become the first DJ to use twin turntables for continuous play, and in 1958 became a radio DJ at Radio Luxembourg.

In August 1947, the West Bengal became part of India and East Bengal became part of Pakistan.

( 1964 ; originally published in French, 1947 ), became a standard scholarly definition of feudalism.

In 1947, Crick began studying biology and became part of an important migration of physical scientists into biology research.

Greenberg was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, became the very first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 / year in salary ( he was paid $ 100, 000, ($ today ) plus $ 25, 000 that his contract with Detroit called for in the event they sold or traded him ).

It became a United Nations specialized agency in 1947, and the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee ( CCITT, from ) was created in 1956.

In 1947 PICAO became ICAO.

In 1947, France became the first country to borrow from the IMF.

The first postwar elections were held in 1948 ( women were given the franchise for the first time in 1947 ), and the Liberal Party's vice president, Yoshida Shigeru ( 1878 – 1967 ), became prime minister.

The Republic of India and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan signed their first bilateral agreement for cooperation and friendly relations in 1947, which was formalized in 1950 when India became a sovereign democratic republic.

City Island Ballpark in Daytona Beach, Florida — the baseball field that became the Dodgers ' de facto spring training site in 1947 — was renamed Jackie Robinson Ballpark in 1989.

In 1947, Chief Petty Officer Maurice Fargues became the first diver to die using an aqualung while attempting a new depth record with the GERS near Toulon.

In 1947 Jomo Kenyatta, former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became president of the more aggressive KAU to demand a greater political voice for Africans.

Dogra Rule, under the paramountcy ( or tutelage ) of the British Crown, lasted until 1947, when the former princely state became a disputed territory, now administered by three countries: India, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China.

On the 19th of July 1947, Aung San became Deputy Chairman of the Executive Council of Burma, a transitional government.

In 1947, a trusteeship was established by the United Nations, and Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom became the U. N. trustees of the island, with administration passing mostly to Australia.

With the birth of the transistor in 1947, and the silicon transistor in 1954, the concept of ICs became a reality.

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

Long-term dioxin contamination at Love Canal starting in 1947 became a national news story in 1978 and led to the Superfund legislation of 1980.

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.

Lemmon attended Phillips Academy ( Class of 1943 ) and Harvard University ( Class of 1947 ), where he lived in Eliot House and was an active member of several Drama Clubs-becoming president of the Hasty Pudding Club-as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard.

Beginning in 1947 during the Harry S. Truman administration, every Thanksgiving the president is presented with a live domestic turkey during the annual national thanksgiving turkey presentation held at the White House.

Had the president ordered an atomic attack in 1947 or 1948, the 509th Composite Bomb Group would have needed five or six days to obtain the bombs from the Atomic Energy Commission and arrive at the base it would attack from.

At the first Special Session of the UN General Assembly held in 1947, Osvaldo Aranha, then president of the Special Session, began a tradition that has remained until today whereby the first speaker at this major international forum is always a Brazilian.

* April 2 – Nicholas M. Butler, president of Columbia University and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1947 )

The subsequent passing of the 22nd Amendment of the United States Constitution in 1947 renders this election the only occasion in American history in which a candidate was elected to an unprecedented third term as president ( Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term in 1944, but he died less than three months after his inauguration ).

The president pro tempore and the speaker were removed from the line of succession in 1886, but were restored in 1947.

The new Constitution of the Republic of China, promulgated on 25 December 1947, established a five-branch government with the office of president ( 總統 ) as head of state.

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

The next year, he moved to New York City to join the advertising agency of Young and Rubicam as director of research ( later as vice president from 1937 to 1947 ).

* Randy Moffett, president of the University of Louisiana System from 2008 to 2012, was born in Jonesboro in 1947.

* Raymond V. Kirk ( 1901 – 1947 ), president of Duquesne University

In South Charleston are the headquarters of International Industries, the parent company of a group of subsidiaries founded in 1947 by James H. " Buck " Harless ( now its president and CEO ), based primarily in natural resources such as coal and timber, but which also include the manufacturing, hotel and real estate industries.

In 1947, he was elected president of the Kenya African Union ( KAU ).

Ashida was elected president of the new party, and became Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1947 under Socialist prime minister Tetsu Katayama.

In 1947 Jomo Kenyatta, the former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became president of the more aggressive KAU to demand a greater political voice for the native inhabitants.

Inspired by the Serie Interamericana and his experience as a former president of the FIBA 1946 – 1947, Morales presented his idea for a Serie del Caribe to the Confederación de Béisbol del Caribe ( CBC, Caribbean Baseball Confederation ) conference in Miami on August 21, 1948.

Dr. Sexton served as the first principal, and later president, of NSTC from 1907 to 1947.

In 1947 Fisk heralded its first African-American president with the arrival of Charles Spurgeon Johnson.

Niemöller was president of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau from 1947 to 1961.