The team has also won four division titles (,,, and ) since their 1947 – 1948 NFL championship game appearances.

He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award ( posthumously ) for his " unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning.

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

Gerty Cori and Carl Cori jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of the Cori cycle at RPMI.

Lavelli was the league's top receiver in 1946, while Speedie won those honors in 1947 and 1949.

During World War II, he worked in an animation department of the United States Army, where he wrote Design for Death, a film that later won the 1947 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

In the five years immediately after the war, Essendon won 3 premierships ( 1946, 1949, 1950 ) and were runners up twice ( 1947, 1948 ).

Over the course of seven years, the trio collaborated on seven films, including A Double Life ( 1947 ) starring Ronald Colman, Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), The Marrying Kind ( 1952 ), and It Should Happen to You ( 1954 ), all starring another Cukor favorite, Judy Holliday, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday.

Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ); The Big Sleep ( 1946 ); Dark Passage ( 1947 ) and Key Largo ( 1948 ), with his wife Lauren Bacall ; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ); In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ); The African Queen ( 1951 ), for which he won his only Academy Award ; Sabrina ( 1954 ); and The Caine Mutiny ( 1954 ).

** In 1947, Wooden's basketball team won the conference title and received an invitation to the NAIA National Tournament in Kansas City.

He was selected for six consecutive All-Star Games from 1949 to 1954, was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949 — the first black player so honored.

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.

Elections in 1947 for the newly created Legislative Assembly marked Mauritius's first steps toward self-rule, and were won by the Labour Party, headed by Guy Rozemont.

Even though since the 1940s, PAN had won a couple of seats in the Congress, and in 1947 the first presidential municipality ( in Quiroga, Michoacán ), it wasn't until 1989, that the first non-PRI governor of a state was elected ( at Baja California ).

At Yale, he participated in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and was on the team representing Yale University ( along with Murray Gerstenhaber and Henry O. Pollak ) that won the second prize in 1947.

The family won its court case in 1947.

Homecoming won a place in The O. Henry Prize Stories of 1947.

Williams also won the Triple Crown in 1947, but lost the MVP award to Joe DiMaggio, with 201 votes compared to DiMaggio's 202 votes.

On that occasion the party won 48. 5 % of the vote, but, despite its absolute majority in the Italian Parliament, De Gasperi continued to govern at the head of a centrist coalition that included the Italian Workers ' Socialist Party ( PSLI-a 1947 break-away from the PSI ), the Liberals and the Republicans.

England won the first post-war competition in 1947, and followed up with victories in 1948, 1950, 1953 – 1958 and 1961.

Following in his father's athletic footsteps, John Jr. won in 1947 the James E. Sullivan Award as the country's top amateur athlete.

He won as Best Director for Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ) and for On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), which is considered " one of the greatest films in the history of international cinema.

Nickolas won the first America's Polka King award in 1947.

Novel, in 1947 won the Fogazzaro prize, publicated in 1965 ( ed.

Robert Penn Warren's 1946 American novel All the King's Men, the story of populist politician Willie Stark's rise to the position of governor and eventual fall, based on the career of the corrupt Louisiana Senator Huey Long, won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize.

* 1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.

* 1947 – Tony Dell, Australian cricketer

* 1947 – Tony Gregory, Irish politician

* 1947 – Tony Zappone, American broadcaster and journalist

opened in 1943 and Carousel in 1945, and the Tony Awards were not awarded until 1947.

* Tony Pastor and His Orchestra ( 1947 ) ( short subject )

* 1947, Katharine Cornell won a Tony Award for her Broadway performance of Cleopatra opposite the Antony of Godfrey Tearle.

Tony Downs Foods Co. has been a major employer since 1947, processing poultry and frozen meals.

Gielgud won a Tony Award for his direction of Big Fish, Little Fish in 1961, the only time he won the award in a competitive category ( having won honorary awards for " Best Foreign Company " for his 1947 production of The Importance of Being Earnest and for his one-man show Ages of Man ).

But Gielgud was best known for directing productions in which he also starred, including his greatest commercial success Richard of Bordeaux ( 1933 ), his definitive production of The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1939, 1942, 1947 ), Medea with Judith Anderson's Tony Award-winning performance of the title role with Gielgud supporting her as Jason ( 1947 ), The Lady's Not for Burning ( 1949 ) that won Richard Burton his first notoriety as an actor, and Ivanov ( 1965 ).

Texaco Star Theaters next hosts included James Melton ( 1944 – 1947 ), Tony Martin ( 1947 – 1948 ), Gordon MacRae ( 1948 ), Jack Carter ( 1948 ), and Milton Berle ( 1948 – 1949 ).

John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, PC ( born 8 May 1947 ) is a British politician, who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) and cabinet minister under Tony Blair, most notably as Defence Secretary ( 2005 – 06 ) and then Home Secretary ( 2006 – 07 ).

He has been married since 1947 to the former Marilyn Plottel, and he has two daughters ( actress and Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason and Sharon Hall, a television executive at Sony Pictures inc .) and one son ( Richard Hall, a television producer ).

Born to a Jewish family in Palestine, he moved to Britain in 1947 and assumed the pen name Tony Cliff.

He was a three-time All-American, and was elected a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, as were two of his teammates on the 1947 squad — tackle George Savitsky and tailback Tony Minisi — and his coach, George Munger.

Two years later, he received plaudits for his hilarious Keystone Kops ballet in High Button Shoes ( 1947 ), including his first Tony Award for choreography.

* 1947 High Button Shoes – musical – choreographer – Tony Award for Best Choreography

* Tony Williams ( English musician ) ( born 1947 ), bassist in Stealers Wheel and Jethro Tull

* The Arnelo Affair ( 1947 ) ... Tony Arnelo

The Tony Awards were established in 1947 to recognize achievement in live American theatre, especially Broadway theatre.

Broadway productions and artists are honored by the annual Antoinette Perry Awards ( commonly called the " Tony Awards, or " Tony ") which are awarded by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, beginning in 1947.