A number of Grand Prix racing organisations had laid out rules for a World Championship before the war, but due to the suspension of racing during the conflict, the World Drivers ' Championship was not formalised until 1947.

By the summer of 1947, however, the KSČ's popularity had significantly dwindled, and most observers believed Gottwald would be turned out of office at the elections due for May 1948.

Initially Britain had supported the anti-communist factions in those countries, but due to its dire economic condition it decided to pull out and in February 1947 requested the U. S. to continue its efforts.

Capone was imprisoned for tax violations and eventually died on January 25, 1947, due to a heart attack and pneumonia.

* Arnold Schwarzenegger ( born 1947 ), American actor known as The Terminator due to his role in the films

Though the patent was granted in 1947, due to post-war shortages, the game was not officially launched until 1949, when the game was simultaneously licensed to Parker Brothers in the United States for publication, where it was renamed " Clue " along with other minor changes.

The analysis of logical concepts and the machinery of formalization that is essential to Principia Mathematica ( 3 vols., 1910 – 1913 ) ( by Bertrand Russell, 1872 – 1970, and Alfred North Whitehead, 1861 – 1947 ), to Russell's theory of descriptions, to Kurt Gödel's ( 1906 – 1978 ) incompleteness theorems, and to Alfred Tarski's ( 1901 – 1983 ) theory of truth, is ultimately due to Frege.

In 1947 due to communal tensions and the influx of two million Muslim refugees from India many Hindus fled to India

* 1947 Original Broadway cast recording ( incomplete, due to recording limitations of the period ; some lyrics were censored )

1947 saw two subsequently-outstanding films in production, Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean and Powell and Pressburger's Oscar-winning The Red Shoes, a landmark in British film-making, in part largely due to the creative cinematography of Jack Cardiff and his innovative use of the new technique of Technicolor.

In 1947 he secured as a job lecturing at Birkbeck College, London, but was not promoted till 1970, something that he considered to be due to his far left political views.

The establishment of the Palmach underground army in 1942 which won the yishuv crucial military struggle against Palestinian Arabs from 30 November 1947 up to 15 May 1948 that made possible the establishment of the Israeli state, was due to efforts by Tabenkin and other Kibbutz Meuchad leaders.

During the construction of the current complex United Nations Complex from 1947 through 1952, the United Nations was temporarily headquartered at the Sperry Corporation facility in the Great Neck community of Lake Success due to its proximity to Manhattan.

The Zebrette remained in Serie B for a dozen years, with average performances and were relegated to Serie C at the end of the 1947 – 48 season due to a reform of the championships.

There are two exceptions to this: no Jamboree was held between 1937 and 1947 because of the Second World War, and the 1979 Jamboree, which was to be held in Iran, was cancelled due to the political upheaval in the region at that time.

Dorsey might have broken up his own band permanently following World War II, as many big bands did due to the shift in music economics following the war, but Tommy Dorsey's album for RCA, " All Time Hits " placed in the top ten records in February, 1947.

In 1946, he was hired by the renowned Schlosspark-Theater in Berlin, but was fired by the manager in 1947 due to his unpredictable behavior.

In 1921, this was due to political influence whereas, in 1947, it was left out of British Railways because it was closed for traffic despite vigorous local lobbying for it to be included.

Gloucester left Australia in March 1947, after two years in the job, due to the need to act as Regent during the absence in South Africa of his brother, King George VI.

With one exception between 1934 until 1979, 33 drivers started the 500 ; 1947 saw 30 cars start due to a strike by certain teams affiliated with the ASPAR drivers, owners and sponsors association.

In June 1946 he graduated with the class of 1947 due to the reduced schedule still in effect from World War II.

Furthermore, due to the box office success of The Romance of Rosy Ridge, Leigh and Johnson were teamed up again in a film project called The Life of Monty Stratton in August 1947.

The Parkway was originally designated as the Route 4 Parkway when it was started in 1947 in Union County, but, due to lack of funds, only were completed by 1950.

The next season they easily won the Gruppe Nord in 1947 due in large part due to the play of Fritz Walter and his brother Ottmar: the duo scored 46 goals between them – more than any other single team.

Food shortages were severe, especially in the harsh winter of 1946 – 1947.

The 1947 Thames flood was worst overall 20th century flood of the River Thames, affecting much of the Thames Valley as well as elsewhere in England during the middle of March 1947 after a severe winter.

Between 1947 and 1988, 13 severe cyclones hit Bangladesh, causing enormous loss of life and property.

In mid-October 1947, Maine experienced a severe drought.

In 1947, Britain experienced, in an exceptionally severe winter, a serious coal shortage.

The German food situation reached its worst during the very cold winter of 1946 – 1947 when German calorie intake ranged from 1, 000 – 1, 500 calories per day, a situation made worse by severe lack of fuel for heating.

The first Enasa produced truck, a slightly modified Hispano-Suiza 66G, was the Pegaso I, of which only a few units were made ( due mostly to the severe shortages of the post-war era ) in 1946 and 1947.

Post war, the island suffered from severe winter weather in 1947 which destroyed much of the oyster fishery, and from the flooding of 1953.

The First Violin Concerto was composed during the post-war years in Soviet Russia ( 1947 – 48 ), a time of severe censorship.

In 1947 the 7, 130 ton steamship the SS Port Royal Park, under the flag of the Tavistock Shipping Company collided with the pier causing severe damage that was not repaired for several years.

The King and Queen toured Northern Greece under severe security to try to appeal for loyalty in the summer of 1947.

The recommendation for his Distinguished Service Order which was gazetted on 6 March 1947 ( and dated 2 November 1946 ) describes how from his insertion until 15 August 1945 the forces under his command protected the flank of Allied advances, and caused severe disruption to Japanese operations.

It occasionally freezes over — most recently in the severe winters of 1947 and 1963.

The last major famine in the USSR happened mainly in 1947 as a cumulative effect of consequences of collectivization, war damage, the severe drought in 1946 in over 50 % of the grain-productive zone of the country and government social policy and mismanagement of grain reserves.

In the Dugald train disaster of September 1, 1947, a Canadian National Railway passenger train consisting of older wooden-bodied passenger cars collided with a transcontinental passenger train made up of newer steel cars, resulting in severe damage and fatalities on the older train.

Snowden suffered a severe stroke in 1947 which left her disabled and permanently resident in the Warleigh Nursing Home in Wimbledon, although her mind remained active.

But by 1947, there was ferry service to Whidbey Island, a fuel storage facility for the Air Force on the waterfront, and a major rail line for the Great Northern Railway along the city's entire waterfront.

Following the decision taken by the British government in January 1947 to develop nuclear weapons, Sellafield was chosen as the location of the plutonium production plant, with the initial fuel loading into the Windscale Piles commencing in July 1950.

Distilling restrictions were rapidly lifted and output from the distillery was at pre-war levels by 1947, despite ongoing barley, fuel, and manpower limitations.

However, the fuel crisis of 1947 caused passenger services to be withdrawn from the line and it closed altogether in 1963.

Regular passenger traffic ceased in 1947 with post-war fuel shortages, and the line was closed completely by CIÉ in 1961.