In 1947 a portion of the old Township of Champlin was incorporated to form the Village of Champlin and on January 2, 1971, the Township of Champlin and the Village of Champlin consolidated as the result of a petitioned order from the Minnesota Municipal Commission to form the City of Champlin.

Weeks conceived the idea in 1945, petitioned Gen. Eisenhower in 1946, led the first Veterans Day celebration in 1947 ( keeping the official name Armistice Day until Veterans Day was legal in 1954 ).

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.

The medical trials at Nuremberg in 1947 deeply impressed upon the world that experimentation with unknowing human subjects is morally and legally unacceptable.

The two self-governing countries of India and Pakistan legally came into existence at the stroke of midnight on 14-15 August 1947.

In 1941, she began using the nom de guerre Christine Granville, which she legally adopted on naturalisation as a British citizen in February 1947.

Although Canada restricted dual citizenship between 1947 and 1977, there were some situations where Canadians could nevertheless legally possess another citizenship.

Since 1947, tigers were legally protected in the USSR.

It was legally split from Wilberforce College in 1947, when it became the College of Education and Industrial Arts at Wilberforce, Ohio.

Adolfo Scilingo ( born 1947 ) was an Argentine naval officer who is currently serving 30 years ( the legally applied limit, although he was sentenced to 640 years ) in a Spanish prison after being convicted on April 19, 2005 for crimes against humanity, including extra-judicial execution.

Dr. Miyazaki bought the house legally from Artie's son, Harold Phair, in 1947, when the ban on Japanese Canadians buying and owning property was lifted.

* Chemistry ( 1947 ) – the science of substances: their structure, their properties, and the reactions that change them into other substances ( Pauling ).

Following the 1947 season, the American League countered with a rule change that fixed the distance of an outfield wall for the duration of a season.

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:

Despite Romania ` s change of sides its role in the defeat of Nazi Germany was not recognized by the Paris Peace Conference of 1947.

In New Zealand, the Parliament was empowered to change the constitution by the New Zealand Constitution Amendment Act 1947, which was the last piece of legislation passed by the British Parliament concerning the Government of New Zealand.

The 1940s saw huge change in South Asia with the Partition of India in 1947 ( resulting in the establishment of the two new states of India and Pakistan ), and the establishment of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in 1949.

The Marshall Plan of 1947 caused lending by the bank to change as many European countries received aid that competed with World Bank loans.

In March 1947, Herbert Hoover helped change policy by stating

* In the 1947 movie Down to Earth Terpsichore is annoyed and visits earth to change a musical that depicts her in a bad light.

Acheson devised the policy and wrote Truman's 1947 request to Congress for aid to Greece and Turkey, a speech which stressed the dangers of totalitarianism rather than Soviet aggression and marked the fundamental change in American foreign policy that became known as the Truman Doctrine.

Seeking to replace the old, outdated charter, Worcester voters in November 1947 approved a change to Plan E municipal government.

His change of surname in 1945 necessarily meant abandoning the literary reputation he had built up as R. P. Russ, and although he returned to writing after the war, when he moved to rural Wales, his non-fiction anthology A Book of Voyages ( 1947 ) attracted little attention.

Tunxis Council # 079, headquartered in Torrington, Connecticut, came about from a name change of Northern Litchfield Council in 1947.

These continued to exist when in 1947 Lippe lost its status as a state of Germany and by order of the British military government was incorporated into the new federal state North Rhine-Westphalia ; in 1949 this change was approved by the parliament.

It is argued that it was Hoover's March 1947 statements in his report that led to the end of the Morgenthau plan and to a change in U. S. policy.

In view of the continued poverty and famine in Europe, and with the onset of the Cold War which made it important not to lose all of Germany to the communists, it was apparent by 1947 that a change of policy was required.

Herbert Hoover's situation reports from 1947, and " A Report on Germany " also served to help change occupation policy.

Reports such as this by former U. S. President Herbert Hoover, dated March 1947, also argued for a change of policy, among other things through speaking frankly of the expected consequences.

He also came back with useful information on the incipient change in American foreign policy that would lead to the Cold War and in Italy the break with the Communists and left-wing Socialists and their removal from the government in the May 1947 crisis.

The change was made in 1932, in accordance with the fascist regime's appropriation of symbols from the Roman Empire, and was thus undone shortly after the war, in 1947.

The change coincided with the switch from longtime editor Robert Kanigher ( who had taken over writing for the character following the death of creator William Moulton Marston in 1947 ), to new editor Dennis O ' Neil in Wonder Woman # 178 ( dated October 1968 ).

Following the introduction of the 1947 Buick, Studebaker, and Kaiser, grilles became shorter and wider to accommodate for the change in design.

In 1947, Albertson made a discovery which was to change his life when he happened upon a Bessie Smith recording on the Danish radio ; it led to an abiding interest in jazz and blues music.

In 1947 he formed the Ortodoxos party which had the goal of exposing government corruption and bringing about revolutionary change through constitutional means.

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.

Around 1947, Tutmarc's son, Bud, began marketing a similar bass under the Serenader brand name, prominently advertised in the nationally distributed L. D.

He was never allowed back into Nissan, which returned to passenger car manufacture in 1947 and to its original name of Nissan Motor Company Ltd. in 1949.

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 ).

David Robert Jones ( born 8 January 1947 ), known by his stage name David Bowie ( ), is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger.

The same divergence also presented a problem for the International Organization for Standardization ( Organisation internationale de normalisation ) at its founding in 1947 ; it settled on the short name ISO as a compromise between IOS and OIN.

The company name " Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier " was changed to EG & G in 1947.

The German population was expelled from between 1945 and 1947 and replaced with Poles and, as the medieval Polish name Lignica was considered archaic, the town was renamed Legnica.

The Soviets changed the name from " Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania " to " Mecklenburg " in 1947.

The company name was changed to Motorola in 1947.

It was only in 1947 that the drug was given the generic name “ methadone ” by the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association ( COUNCIL ... 1947 ).

Methadone was introduced into the United States in 1947 by Eli Lilly and Company as an analgesic ( they gave it the trade name Dolophine, which is now registered to Roxane Laboratories ).

The New Zealand monarchy has been distinct from the British monarchy since the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947, and all Elizabeth II's official business in New Zealand is conducted in the name of the Queen of New Zealand, not the Queen of the United Kingdom.

Roswell is most popularly known for having its name attached to what is now called the 1947 Roswell UFO incident, even though the crash site of the alleged UFO was some 75 miles from Roswell and closer to Corona.

A film version under the same name was made by Gainsborough Studios in 1947, and a remake entitled The Dark Angel, starring Peter O ' Toole as the title character, was made in 1987.

* Yorktown-class aircraft carrier ( 12 May 1938 – 17 February 1947 ), the seventh ship to bear this name, served with unparalleled distinction in World War II, becoming the most-decorated vessel in the history of the U. S. Navy.

The actual term " State of the Union " first emerged in 1934 when Franklin D. Roosevelt used the phrase, becoming its generally accepted name since 1947.

Though the monarch retains all executive, legislative, and judicial power in and over Canada, the governor general is permitted to exercise most of this, including the Royal Prerogative, in the sovereign's name ; some as outlined in the Constitution Act, 1867, and some through various letters patent issued over the decades, particularly those from 1947 that constitute the Office of Governor General of Canada ; they state: " And We do hereby authorize and empower Our Governor General, with the advice of Our Privy Council for Canada or of any members thereof or individually, as the case requires, to exercise all powers and authorities lawfully belonging to Us in respect of Canada.

On April 18, 1947, the state's name was shortened to Land Mecklenburg.

The film was based on Laura Z. Hobson's 1947 novel of the same name.

Assata Olugbala Shakur ( born July 16, 1947, as JoAnne Deborah Byron, married name Chesimard ) is an African-American activist and escaped convict who was a member of the Black Panther Party ( BPP ) and Black Liberation Army ( BLA ).

The end of denazification saw the ad-hoc creation initially of the Western Union ( not to be confused with the commercial operation of that name ) which would be institutionalised as the Western European Union in 1947 and 1955, with a broad socio-economic remit actually implemented in the strict domain of arms control.

Bell Labs researcher Frank Gray introduced the term reflected binary code in his 1947 patent application, remarking that the code had " as yet no recognized name ".

* John Farrow ( author ), pen name of Trevor Ferguson ( born 1947 ), Canadian novelist