WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO NOVEMBER 1947
Find out what all happened April to November 1947

The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time. (30. September 1947)

Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. (14. August 1947)

The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time. (1. October 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)

The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. (5. October 1947)

Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists. (24. October 1947)

The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act. (18. September 1947)

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today. (11. August 1947)

Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine. (29. November 1947)

Korean politician Yuh Woon-Hyung is assassinated. (19. July 1947)

New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom. (25. November 1947)

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

Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948). (6. November 1947)

First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam. (29. November 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)

Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight. (14. October 1947)

The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu agrees to allow his kingdom to join India. (26. October 1947)

The Philippine Air Force is established. (1. July 1947)

Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930 killed. (16. September 1947)