WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 1947
Find out what all happened January to April 1947

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

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

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

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

Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world. (12. February 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 International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded. (23. February 1947)

An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111. (25. March 1947)

The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, that later became West Germany. (1. January 1947)

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

In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America. (21. February 1947)

Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world. (6. January 1947)

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

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

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

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

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

228 massacre: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians. (28. February 1947)

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

The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon. (3. February 1947)