Historical Events in 1947
45 curated events dated to this year, and 93 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1947
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Cold War Begins
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Partition of India along religious lines
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Primo Levi Publishes 'If This Is a Man', Centred on the Tattoo as Dehumanisation
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Transistor invented at Bell Labs in New Jersey
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Widespread Commercialization of Television in the US
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AK-47 Rifle Enters Production
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Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Indian Independence Achieved
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Jackie Robinson Breaks MLB Color Barrier
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The Texas City Fertilizer Disaster
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Willard Libby Introduces Radiocarbon Dating
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Awarded the Bollingen Prize
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Black Dahlia Murder
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Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier
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Cleanth Brooks Publishes 'The Well Wrought Urn'
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Countee Cullen's 'On These I Stand' Published
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Final Major Publication: 'The Best of Marriott Edgar'
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Levittown Suburban Housing Development Begins
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Operation Highjump
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Publication of 'The Poetry of James Stephens'
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Publication of 'The World and Africa'
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Publication of Pablo Neruda's 'Tercera residencia'
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The Technical Perfection of the High-Precision Espresso Machine by Achille Gaggia
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Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer Publish 'Dialectic of Enlightenment'
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Basque 'Euskal Poesiaren Antologia' First Folk Collection
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Christian Dior's 'New Look' Revives the Corset in Post-War Paris
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Discovery of Urokinase
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Education at Prestigious Boarding School
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First Commercial Microwave Radarange
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First Flight of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
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First Flight of the North American F-86 Sabre
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Holography Invention
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Publication of 'Poems About God'
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Publication of the Discovery of Factor V
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Return to England
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Skyhook High-Altitude Research Balloons
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Awarded Traveling Scholarship by the Society of Authors
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Copenhagen Finger Plan for Urban Expansion
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CR-39 Resin Lenses Commercialized
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Final Years in Los Angeles
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Honorary DLitt from Trinity College Dublin (1947)
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Miss Dior Launch Post-WWII
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Project Mogul High-Altitude Balloon Program
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The Rumba Craze Launches the Latin Dance Vogue
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First Flight of the Antonov An-2 'Colt'
Poets alive in 1947
93 poets
Poets in 1947
We don’t currently have any musicalized poets on V2Melody who were alive in 1947, but we’re always adding more — check back soon.
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