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.

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

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

Kelly was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the McCarthy era in the U. S. In 1947, he was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation which flew to Washington to protest at the first official hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

It was then simplified in 1947, when Leon Henkin observed in his Ph. D. thesis that the hard part of the proof can be presented as the Model Existence Theorem ( published in 1949 ).

In Canada, these head of state powers belong to the Monarch as part of the Royal Prerogative, but the Governor General has been permitted to exercise them since 1947 and has done so since the 1970s.

During the Second World War, Finland fought twice against the Soviet Union and defended its independence, though in the process it in the 1947 peace settlement ended up ceding a large part of Karelia and some other areas to the Soviet Union.

* Nauru, formerly part of German New Guinea ( Australia in effective control, formally together with United Kingdom and New Zealand ) from 17 December 1920, 1 November 1947 made into a United Nations trust territory ( same three powers ) until its 31 January 1968 independence as a Republic-all that time under an Administrator

Over $ 14 billion was spent or loaned during the postwar period through the end of 1947, and is not counted as part of the Marshall Plan.

The islands passed formally to the United States under United Nations auspices in 1947 as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

In 1947, the United Nations decided the United States would administer Palau as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

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.

Roppongi was administratively part of Azabu Ward from 1878 to 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

Founded in 1943, it became part of the United Nations in 1945, was especially active in 1945 and 1946, and largely shut down operations in 1947.

The Air National Guard as part of the United States Air Force was established in 1947.

Prior to the creation of Pakistan in 1947, modern-day Bangladesh was part of ancient, classical, medieval and colonial India.

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.

*** Tropical Storm Irene ( 1947 ), part of the 1940 – 49 Pacific typhoon seasons

The Federated States of Micronesia achieved independence in 1986 after being administered by the United States under UN auspices since 1947 as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

As part of this effort, the first modern concrete apartment block, the Unité d ' Habitation of Corbusier, was built in Marseille in 1947 – 52.

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.

The western part of the duchy, with the towns of Postojna, Ilirska Bistrica, Idrija and Šturje was annexed to Italy in 1920, but was subsequently also included into Yugoslavia in 1947.

The Partition of India and the departure of the British in 1947 led to the province of Sindh becoming part of Pakistan.

Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.

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.

After India's independence in 1947, Sindh became a part of Pakistan while Kutch remained a part of India.

On August 15, 1947, India became an independent nation, and the Constituent Assembly also started functioning as India's Parliament.

It is a fine account of India's economic journey after its Independence in 1947.

Post 1947 India's position

As of 2006 Srinivasa Degree College is the only degree level college to be set up in Kovur mandal since India's Independence in 1947.

* Ashok Row Kavi ( born 1947 ), Indian journalist and one of India's most prominent LGBT rights activists

At the time of British India's independence in 1947, Portuguese India included a number of enclaves on India's western coast, including Goa proper, as well as the coastal enclaves of Daman ( Port: Damão ) and Diu, and the enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, which lie inland from Daman.

After India's independence from the British in 1947, Portugal refused to accede to India's request to relinquish control of its Indian possessions.

About eighty years after the Maratha conquest, the Maratha Empire was forced to cede it to the British and Kalyan became part of the Bombay Presidency, a British India province that became Bombay state after India's independence in 1947.

The station was built just before India's independence in 1947 to cater to the needs of the sprawling Godrej Complex in the vicinity.

On India's independence in 1947, the princely states, including those of the Rajput, were given three choices: join either India or Pakistan, or remain independent.

He served as India's first High Commissioner to Pakistan from 1947 to 1949, Governor of Assam from 1949 to 1950, Governor of Madras from 1952 to 1956 and Governor of Bombay from 1956 to 1962.

In August 1947, Sri Prakasa was appointed India's first High Commissioner to Pakistan and served in the post till 1949.

Kodungallur was an autonomous principality subordinate to the Raja of Cochin until India's Independence in 1947.

After India's independence in 1947, the Central Provinces and Berar became a province of India, and in 1950 became the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

During these years, Menon became a passionate proponent of India's freedom, working as a journalist and as secretary of the India League from 1929 to 1947, and a close friend of fellow Indian nationalist leader and future Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as well as such political and intellectual figures as Bertrand Russell, J. B. S.

Upon India's independence in 1947, the former Central Provinces and Berar became the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

The 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles ( The Sirmoor Rifles ) was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army before being transferred to the British Army on India's independence in 1947.

After India's independence in 1947, the Rajas of Dewas acceded to India, and their states were integrated into Madhya Bharat, which became a state of India in 1950.