WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO AUGUST 1947
Find out what all happened April to August 1947

The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France. (11. July 1947)

Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line. (15. 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)

The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel. (9. April 1947)

The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union. (6. July 1947)

Paul becomes king of Greece, on the death of his childless elder brother, George II. (1. April 1947)

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

Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia. (28. April 1947)

The Roswell incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico. (7. July 1947)

A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found for over 50 years. (2. August 1947)

Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington. (24. June 1947)

Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee. (10. July 1947)

The Supreme Court of Japan is established. (4. August 1947)

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

Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico. (8. July 1947)

Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. (7. August 1947)

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

Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. (14. August 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)

Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. (16. April 1947)