WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1947
Find out what all happened May to 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)

The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand. (18. November 1947)

RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube. (15. September 1947)

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

Saab produces its first automobile. (10. June 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)

1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel. (30. November 1947)

The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces. (18. September 1947)

United States of America and Islamic Republic of Pakistan establish diplomatic relations for the first time. (20. 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 North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time. (1. October 1947)

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

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

Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council. (26. July 1947)

First case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University. (9. September 1947)

The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London. (20. November 1947)

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

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

First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam. (29. November 1947)