Mahalia Jackson's 1947 version received significant radio airplay, and as her popularity grew throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she often sang it at public events such as concerts at Carnegie Hall.

In 1947, at the age of 44, she met former actor Rupert Pole in a Manhattan elevator on her way to a party.

In 1947, Bardot was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris, and for three years she attended the ballet classes of Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev.

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

It was while she worked as a laboratory technician in 1947 that she began writing science fiction.

In this novelette about communication and computers, written by MacLean in 1947, she demonstrated an ability to foresee the future evolution of personal computers.

But she drifted back to songwriting and occasional recording sessions for the fledgling Capitol Records in 1947, for whom she produced a long string of hits, many of them with lyrics and music by Lee and Barbour, including " I Don't Know Enough About You " and " It's a Good Day " ( 1948 ).

In 1922, she married Edward Hilton Young, later Lord Kennet ( she becoming Lady Kennet ), and remained a doughty defender of Scott's reputation until her death, aged 69, in 1947.

Her first major royal tour occurred when she joined her parents and sister for a tour of South Africa in 1947.

During high school, she acted and danced, graduating in May 1947 from Stevens School, a small private institution in a mansion on Walnut Lane in the Northwest Philadelphia neighborhood of Germantown.

Other films include The Hucksters ( 1947 ) with Clark Gable, Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ) with Gregory Peck, Lone Star ( 1952 ) with Clark Gable, Mogambo ( 1953 ) with Clark Gable and Grace Kelly, 1954's The Barefoot Contessa with Humphrey Bogart ( which some consider to be Gardner's " signature film " since it mirrored her real life custom of going barefoot ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), The Sun Also Rises with Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn ( in which she played party-girl Brett Ashley ) ( 1957 ), and the film version of Nevil Shute's best-selling On the Beach with Peck and Fred Astaire.

Shakur was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, on July 16, 1947, where she lived for three years with her parents and grandparents, Lula and Frank Hill.

In April 1947, when Crouch was a senior at Winthrop College, Thurmond was a judge in a beauty contest in which she was selected as Miss South Carolina.

From 1945 to 1952, Crawford reigned as a top star and respected actress, appearing in such roles as Helen Wright in Humoresque ( 1946 ), Louise Howell Graham in Possessed ( 1947, for which she was nominated for a second Oscar for Best Actress ) and the title role in Daisy Kenyon ( also 1947 ).

Crawford, as the compulsive homemaker and with a powerful need to love and be loved, adopted two more children in 1947, identical twins whom she named Cindy and Cathy.

Elizabeth's political views were rarely disclosed, but a letter she wrote in 1947 described Attlee's " high hopes of a socialist heaven on earth " as fading and presumably describes those who voted for him as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused.

During the 1947 royal tour of South Africa, Elizabeth's serene public behaviour was broken, exceptionally, when she rose from the royal car to strike an admirer with her umbrella because she had mistaken his enthusiasm for hostility.

In 1946, she came under the influence of director Emilio Fernández, with whom she made the films Enamorada ( 1946 ), Río Escondido ( 1947 ) and Maclovia ( 1948 ), launching her career throughout Europe.

Her second marriage, in December 1947, was to the famous bass player Ray Brown, whom she had met while on tour with Dizzy Gillespie's band a year earlier.

* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.

The prototype weapon began unpowered flight-tests in 1947, and made its first aerial interception in 1952.

The school leaving age was raised to 15 in 1947, and increased Treasury funds were made available for education, particularly for upgrading school buildings suffering from years of neglect and war damage.

After 1947, India made more progress on public health than East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ).

He made his first RCA Victor recordings in Chicago in 1947.

Between 1947 and 1951 he was the editor at the pioneering paperback publisher Avon Books, where he made available highly affordable editions of the works of A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, and C. S. Lewis ' Silent Planet space trilogy, bringing these previously little-known authors a wide readership.

Before he was forced abroad for political reasons, director Jules Dassin made two classic noirs that also straddled the major / independent line: Brute Force ( 1947 ) and the influential documentary-style The Naked City were developed by producer Mark Hellinger, who had an " inside / outside " contract with Universal similar to Wanger's.

The U. S. shipped food in 1945 – 47 and made a $ 600 million loan in 1947 to rebuild German industry.

Bogart and Bacall in Dark Passage ( film ) | Dark Passage ( 1947 ), the third of four films they made together

In 1961 the second Tintin film was made: Tintin and the Golden Fleece, starring Jean-Pierre Talbot as Tintin ( an earlier stop motion-animated film was made in 1947 called The Crab with the Golden Claws, but it was screened publicly only once ).

However, the new geopolitical logic of the Cold War made possible that the former enemy Italy, a hinge-country between Western Europe and the Mediterranean, and now a new, fragile democracy threatened by the proximity of the Iron Curtain and the presence of a strong Communist party, was considered by the USA as an important ally for the Free World, and received under the Marshall Plan US $ 1, 204 million from 1947 to 1951.

A film, Albéniz, based on his life, was made in 1947.

Viet Minh units occasionally made forays into Cambodian bases during their war against the French, and, in conjunction with the leftist government that ruled Thailand until 1947, the Viet Minh encouraged the formation of armed, left-wing Khmer Issarak bands.

( En Morn, 1947, for instance, has a print of a blonde young girl included, prefiguring the early work of Eduardo Paolozzi, whilst many works seem to have directly influenced Robert Rauschenberg, who said after seeing an exhibition of Schwitters ' work at the Sidney Janis Gallery, 1959, that " I felt like he made it all just for me.

It is locally known as the " City of Lights " () and " The bride of the cities " () for its liveliness, and the " City of the Quaid " (), having been the birth and burial place of Quaid-e-Azam, the Great Leader, ( Muhammad Ali Jinnah ), the founder of Pakistan, who made the city his home after Pakistan's independence from the British Raj on 14 August 1947.

She made one British film as well, the 1947 film version of Uncle Silas, starring Jean Simmons.

* 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

* In 1947, the studio acquired Frank Capra's production company, Liberty Films, which produced only 2 films in the 1940s: It's a Wonderful Life, released originally by RKO Radio Pictures, and State of the Union, released originally by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( the latter made under Paramount ownership ).

Iver Johnson made an unusual model from 1940 to 1947, called the Trigger Cocking Double Action.

James made his first appearances in Night Beat and Black Memory ( 1947 ), both crime dramas.

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.

This is unlikely, as Scrooge McDuck made his first appearance in 1947, in the story Christmas on Bear Mountain.

Subsequently, Everson v. Board of Education ( 1947 ) incorporated the Establishment Clause ( i. e., made it apply against the states ).