* 1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term " Cold War " to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

* Independence Day of India, celebrates the independence of India from the United Kingdom in 1947.

The British wrested control of the city from the Ottomans during World War I and it was to be included in an international zone under the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

In the United Nations General Assembly's 1947 resolution to partition Palestine, Bethlehem was included in the special international enclave of Jerusalem to be administered by the United Nations.

The article describes the concepts that became the foundation of United States Cold War policy and was published in Foreign Affairs in 1947.

* 1947 – James T. Conway, 34th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps

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.

The United Nations created the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( TTPI ) in 1947.

He also attempted to gain the favor of the Garde — renamed the Haitian Army ( Armée d ' Haïti ) in March 1947 — by promoting Lavaud to brigadier general and by seeking United States military assistance.

By 1947 the Labour Government was ready to refer the Palestine problem to the United Nations.

United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine | 1947 UN partition plan for Palestine

On 15 May 1947, the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations resolved ( Resolution 106 ) that a committee, United Nations Special Committee on Palestine ( UNSCOP ), be created " to prepare for consideration at the next regular session of the Assembly a report on the question of Palestine ".

By the end of 1946, the Communist Democratic Army of Greece had been formed, pitted against the governmental National Army, which was backed first by Britain and after 1947 by the United States.

The subcontinent gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, after the British provinces were partitioned into the dominions of India and Pakistan and the princely states all acceded to one of the new states.

After India gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, it soon joined the Commonwealth of Nations and strongly supported independence movements in other colonies, like the Indonesian National Revolution.

On 29 November 1947, the resolution to recommend to the United Kingdom, as the mandatory Power for Palestine, and to all other Members of the United Nations the adoption and implementation, with regard to the future government of Palestine, of the Plan of Partition with Economic Unionwas was put to a vote in the United Nations General Assembly.

On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending to the United Kingdom, as the mandatory Power for Palestine, and to all other Members of the United Nations the adoption and implementation, with regard to the future government of Palestine, of the Plan of Partition with Economic Union.

It became a United Nations specialized agency in 1947, and the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee ( CCITT, from ) was created in 1956.

* Edward Pearson Warner ( United States ) ( 1947 – 1957 )

* 1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

* 1947 – India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

In 1947, the King issued letters patent granting his Canadian governor general permission to exercise all those powers belonging to the monarch in respect of Canada and, at the Imperial Conference of 1949, the decision was reached to use the term member of the Commonwealth instead of Dominion to refer to the non-British member states of the Commonwealth of Nations.

In February 1947, the British announced that they would end the mandate and withdraw from Palestine and they asked the arbitration of the United Nations.

* December 1947 – March 1948 Numerous attacks on Palestinian Arabs in the context of Civil War after the vote of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine

The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 established the rough boundaries of today, with Pakistan holding roughly one-third of Kashmir, and India one-half, with a dividing line of control established by the United Nations.

* 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

* former German Samoa ( New Zealand / United Kingdom ) 17 December 1920 a League of Nations mandate, renamed Western Samoa ( as opposed to American Samoa ), from 25 January 1947 a United Nations trust territory until its 1 January 1962 independence

In a 1947 speech to the United Nations, Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei Vyshinsky said that the Marshall Plan violated the principles of the United Nations.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

In January 1947, Truman appointed General George Marshall as Secretary of State, and enacted JCS 1779, which decreed that an orderly and prosperous Europe requires the economic contributions of a stable and productive Germany.

Kaye starred in 17 movies, notably The Kid from Brooklyn ( 1946 ), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), Hans Christian Andersen ( 1952 ), and – perhaps his most accomplished performance – The Court Jester ( 1956 ).

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

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.

In the Report of the Committee dated 3 September 1947 to the UN General Assembly, the majority of the Committee in Chapter VI proposed a plan to replace the British Mandate with " an independent Arab State, an independent Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem " ..., the last to be under " an International Trusteeship System ".

On 29 November 1947, the General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of a " Plan of Partition with Economic Union " as Resolution 181 ( II ).

In the autumn of 1947, Nkrumah was invited to serve as the General Secretary to the United Gold Coast Convention ( UGCC ) under Joseph B. Danquah.

In January 1947, Truman appointed retired General George Marshall as Secretary of State.

* 1947 – Timothy Maude, American Lieutenant General ( d. 2001 )

* 1947 – The Partition Plan: the United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine.

* 1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation ( WTO ), is founded.

In September 1947, with no solution in sight, the United States submitted the Korean question to the UN General Assembly.

In 1947, 23 countries agreed to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to promote free trade.

At the first Special Session of the UN General Assembly held in 1947, Osvaldo Aranha, then president of the Special Session, began a tradition that has remained until today whereby the first speaker at this major international forum is always a Brazilian.

LaGuardia was, in turn, followed by Major General Lowell Ward Rooks ( 1 January 1947 to 30 September 1948 ).

After the Arab rejection of the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine ( UN General Assembly Resolution 181 ) that would have created an Arab state and a Jewish state side by side, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria attacked the state of Israel.

* December 16 – Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Imperial Russian Lieutenant General ( d. 1947 )

* November 26 – Edward Higgins, 3rd General of The Salvation Army ( d. 1947 )

The IWW was present to varying extents in many of the struggles in the early decades of the 20th century, including the UK General Strike of 1926, and the dockers ' strike of 1947.