WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1947
Find out what all happened July to December 1947

The Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated by Galon U Saw. (19. July 1947)

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

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

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

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)

The Radcliffe Line, the border between Dominion of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed. (17. August 1947)

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

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

In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built. (2. November 1947)

William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor. (16. December 1947)

The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath. (17. November 1947)

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations. (30. September 1947)

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

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

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

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded. (30. October 1947)

India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire after near 90 years of Crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. (15. August 1947)