WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1947
Find out what all happened January to July 1947

Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive. (9. January 1947)

Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a cathode ray tubeamusement device (25. January 1947)

The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen. (1. January 1947)

Saab produces its first automobile. (10. June 1947)

The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published. (25. June 1947)

Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia. (10. February 1947)

The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations. (1. March 1947)

The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan. (4. July 1947)

KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California. (22. January 1947)

Cold War: in an effort to fight the spread of Communism, the U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement. (22. May 1947)

The State of Prussia ceases to exist. (25. February 1947)

The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (The "Black Dahlia") is found in Los Angeles' Leimert Park. (15. January 1947)

Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time. (3. January 1947)

Thirteen thousand troops sent by the Kuomintang government of China arrive in Taiwan after the 228 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement. (8. March 1947)

Greek banker Dimitrios Maximos becomes Prime Minister of Greece. (24. January 1947)

The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. (9. April 1947)

The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. (23. June 1947)

In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed the Hoover Dam a second time. (30. April 1947)

First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber. (17. March 1947)

A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union. (12. February 1947)