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History on the year of 1947

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01 Jan 1947 WW2 The American and British occupation zones in Germany merged to form the Bizone, which later became the Federal Republic of Germany. 
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01 Jan 1947 WW2 Hjalmar Siilasvuo passed away. 
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01 Jan 1947 WW2 Miles Browning retired from the US Navy. 
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01 Jan 1947 WW2 The Atomic Energy Act of 1946, signed into American law by US President Harry Truman on 1 Aug 1946, came into effect. Manhattan Project was thus turned over to the newly established civilian United States Atomic Energy Commission. 
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01 Jan 1947 WW2 Escort carrier Makin Island was sold for scrap. 
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01 Jan 1947 WW2 Kashima was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Jan 1947 WW2 Smalley was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Jan 1947 WW2 Philip was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Jan 1947 WW2 Shad was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Jan 1947 WW2 USS Mingo was decommissioned at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet. 
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01 Jan 1947 WW2 Joseph Rochefort retired from the US Navy. 
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03 Jan 1947 WW2 John Kennedy began his tenure in the United States House of Representatives for the 11th District in the state of Massachusetts. 
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07 Jan 1947 WW2 US General George Marshall departed China after failing to secure peace in China. 
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07 Jan 1947 WW2 Colorado was decommissioned from service. 
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07 Jan 1947 WW2 Roderick Carr became the Division Controller of the London and South East Division of the United Kingdom Ministry of Civil Aviation. 
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08 Jan 1947 WW2 Soviet Union turned over Slovak diplomat Jan Spisak, who had been arrested in Budapest, Hungary in Dec 1944, to Czechoslovakia for trial. 
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09 Jan 1947 WW2 Bunker Hill was decommissioned from service. 
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09 Jan 1947 WW2 Essex was decommissioned from service. 
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09 Jan 1947 WW2 USS Ticonderoga was placed in the Reserve Fleet at Bremerton, Washington, United States. 
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09 Jan 1947 WW2 USS Alabama was decommissioned from service at Naval Station Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington, United States. 
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10 Jan 1947 RELIGIOUS U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'May we resolve, God helping us, to be part of the answer, and not part of the problem.'
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12 Jan 1947 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at Sasebo, Japan. 
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12 Jan 1947 WW2 USS Sea Cat arrived at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. 
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13 Jan 1947 WW2 Belleau Wood was decommissioned from service. 
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13 Jan 1947 WW2 Cowpens was decommissioned from service. 
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14 Jan 1947 WW2 Daniel Sultan passed away. 
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15 Jan 1947 WW2 Hornet (Essex-class) was decommissioned from service. 
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16 Jan 1947 WW2 Bernard Montgomery was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class of the Soviet Union and the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dutch Lion of the Netherlands. 
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17 Jan 1947 WW2 Chinese Nationalist forces captured Xiaoyi, Shanxi, China, defeating the Communists forces garrisoned there. 
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23 Jan 1947 WW2 Roy Geiger passed away. 
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24 Jan 1947 WW2 Montpelier was decommissioned from service. 
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27 Jan 1947 WW2 USS Charr arrived at San Diego, California, United States, ending the simulated war patrol. During the patrol she visited Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii; Subic Bay, Philippine Islands; Shanghai and Qingdao, China; and Yokosuka, Japan. 
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28 Jan 1947 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Japan. 
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28 Jan 1947 RELIGIOUS In NY City, a copy of the 1640 Bay Psalm Book was purchased at an auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries for $150,000 --the highest price ever paid to date for a single volume. (The original title of the book was: "The Whole Book of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre.")
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30 Jan 1947 WW2 Shigeru Yoshida was made the Minister of Agriculture. 
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31 Jan 1947 WW2 South Dakota was decommissioned from service. 
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31 Jan 1947 WW2 The Bavarian de-Nazification tribunal in Nürnberg, Germany sentenced Hans Fritzsche to nine years of hard labor. 
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01 Feb 1947 WW2 Renshaw was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Feb 1947 WW2 Roderick Carr retired from military service. 
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01 Feb 1947 WW2 USS Saint Paul conducted training operations off San Diego, California, United States. 
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02 Feb 1947 WW2 Submarine Pollack was sold to Ship-Shape, Inc. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for scrap. 
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03 Feb 1947 WW2 Marc Mitscher passed away. 
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04 Feb 1947 WW2 Grayson was decommissioned from service. 
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05 Feb 1947 WW2 Kimberly was decommissioned from service. 
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06 Feb 1947 WW2 A court in Najing, China, Lieutenant General Hisao Tani, commanding officer of the Japanese 6th Division in Nanjing from late 1937, was found guilty of encouraging his men to commit crimes such as rape, murder, plunder, and destruction. 
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06 Feb 1947 WW2 Hisao Tani was put on trial in Nanjing, China for his role in the Rape of Nanjing in 1937. 
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07 Feb 1947 WW2 Denver was decommissioned from service. 
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10 Feb 1947 WW2 Italy ceded most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia. 
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10 Feb 1947 WW2 Minneapolis was decommissioned from service. 
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10 Feb 1947 WW2 As Jan Smuts affixed his signature to the Paris Peace Treaty in France, he became the only person to have signed the documents officially ending WW1 and WW2. 
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10 Feb 1947 RELIGIOUS U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'Save Thy servants from the tyranny of the nonessential. Give them the courage to say "No" to everything that makes it more difficult to say "Yes" to Thee.'
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11 Feb 1947 WW2 Bataan (Independence-class) was decommissioned from service. 
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11 Feb 1947 WW2 Cabot was decommissioned from service. 
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11 Feb 1947 WW2 USS Langley was decommissioned from service at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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12 Feb 1947 WW2 Louis Mountbatten was made the Viceroy and Governor-General of India. 
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12 Feb 1947 WW2 USS Ray was decommissioned from service at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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12 Feb 1947 WW2 USS Bluefish was decommissioned from service. 
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14 Feb 1947 WW2 The scheduled overhaul work for USS Chub completed. 
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14 Feb 1947 WW2 Roderick Carr was appointed King of Arms of the Order of the British Empire. 
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15 Feb 1947 WW2 Shigeru Yoshida stepped down as the Minister of Agriculture. 
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15 Feb 1947 WW2 USS Saint Paul completed training operations off San Diego, California, United States. 
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17 Feb 1947 WW2 Alaska was decommissioned from service. 
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17 Feb 1947 WW2 Enterprise was decommissioned from service. 
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17 Feb 1947 WW2 Franklin was decommissioned from service. 
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17 Feb 1947 WW2 Guam was decommissioned from service. 
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17 Feb 1947 WW2 USS Wasp was decommissioned from service. 
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26 Feb 1947 WW2 Alexander Löhr was executed by firing squad in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 
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28 Feb 1947 WW2 228 Incident: A major civil disorder in Taiwan was put down by the government, resulting in 30,000 deaths. 
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28 Feb 1947 RELIGIOUS U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'Let not the past ever be so dear to us as to set a limit to the future. Give us the courage to change our minds when that is needed.'
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01 Mar 1947 WW2 San Jacinto was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Mar 1947 WW2 Intrepid was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Mar 1947 WW2 Song Ziwen stepped down as the chief of Executive Yuan. 
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01 Mar 1947 WW2 Chiang Kaishek was made the Premier of the Republic of China. 
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07 Mar 1947 WW2 Robert Saundby was made a Commander of the Legion of Merit by the United States. 
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07 Mar 1947 WW2 Canberra (Baltimore-class) was decommissioned from service. 
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09 Mar 1947 WW2 Evripidis Bakirtzis passed away on the island of Fournoi Korseon, Greece. 
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10 Mar 1947 WW2 Harukichi Hyakutake passed away. 
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10 Mar 1947 WW2 Lieutenant General Hisao Tani was sentenced to death by a court in Nanjing, China for encouraging his men to commit crimes such as rape, murder, plunder, and destruction at Nanjing in 1937 and 1938. 
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10 Mar 1947 WW2 Hisao Tani was found guilty of war crimes by a court in Nanjing, China. 
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11 Mar 1947 WW2 The trial against Rudolf Höss at the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland began. 
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13 Mar 1947 WW2 USS Sennet completed her participated in the Operation Highjump Antarctic expedition. 
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14 Mar 1947 WW2 Dong Zhao was awarded the Order of Resplendent Banner 3rd Class. 
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15 Mar 1947 WW2 Joseph McNarney stepped down as the commanding general of US Forces in the European Theater. 
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19 Mar 1947 WW2 George Patton's remains were moved to a different grave site within the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial in Hamm, Luxembourg. 
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21 Mar 1947 WW2 Holland was decommissioned from service. 
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27 Mar 1947 WW2 Massachusetts was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Mar 1947 WW2 The trial against Rudolf Höss at the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland ended. 
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01 Apr 1947 WW2 George II passed away. 
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02 Apr 1947 WW2 Rudolf Höss was sentenced to death by Polish authorities. 
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05 Apr 1947 WW2 Chinese communist forces attacked a US Marines ammunition depot. 
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07 Apr 1947 WW2 Graf Zeppelin departed Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) with loot aboard. 
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10 Apr 1947 WW2 Rudolf Höss wrote a letter to the state prosecutor who had worked against him during his trial, noting that he realized he had sinned and was ready to receive the punishment of death. 
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15 Apr 1947 WW2 Jozef Tiso was found guilty of German collaboration and was sentenced to death. 
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16 Apr 1947 WW2 Rudolf Höss was executed by hanging next to the crematorium of Auschwitz I concentration camp. 
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18 Apr 1947 WW2 The Royal Canadian Air Force retired its fleet of Ventura aircraft. 
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18 Apr 1947 WW2 Jozef Tiso was executed by hanging. 
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18 Apr 1947 WW2 Chiang Kaishek stepped down as the Premier of the Republic of China. 
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20 Apr 1947 WW2 Christian X passed away. 
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23 Apr 1947 WW2 The battleship HMS Warspite was wrecked on the rocks of Mounts Bay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, while being towed to the breakers. 
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25 Apr 1947 WW2 Hisao Tani's appeal against his death sentence was rejected by Chiang Kaishek. 
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26 Apr 1947 WW2 Lieutenant General Hisao Tani was executed by firing squad at Nanjing, China. 
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26 Apr 1947 WW2 Hisao Tani was executed by firing squad on Mount Yuhuatai in Nanjing, China. 
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30 Apr 1947 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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01 May 1947 WW2 Light carrier Hosho's scrapping was completed by Hitachi Zosen, Sakurajima, Japan. 
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01 May 1947 WW2 USS Sterlet reported to the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Francisco, California, United States for inactivation. 
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03 May 1947 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un lost his Japanese royal status. 
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06 May 1947 WW2 USS Becuna entered Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States for a scheduled overhaul. 
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09 May 1947 WW2 Hancock was decommissioned from service. 
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10 May 1947 WW2 He Yingqin was named the chairman of the military committee of the Office of the President of the Republic of China. 
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14 May 1947 WW2 Alphonse Pierre Juin was made the Resident-General of French Morocco, replacing Eirik Labonne. 
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15 May 1947 WW2 USS Sea Robin commenced a simulated war patrol which called for her to circumnavigate South America; she would become the first American submarine to round Cape Horn. 
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15 May 1947 WW2 Chinese communist forces launched an offensive in northeastern China. 
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16 May 1947 WW2 Zhang Linfu committed suicide in his command cave in Menglianggu, Mengyin County, Shandong Province, China. 
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17 May 1947 RELIGIOUS The Conservative Baptist Association of America (CBAA) was formally established at Atlantic City, NJ, as a breakaway movement from within the American Baptist Convention.
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18 May 1947 WW2 Chinese communist forces captured Huaide County, Jilin Province, China. 
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20 May 1947 WW2 Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller was executed by firing squad in Athens, Greece. 
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23 May 1947 WW2 The British divided India into India and Pakistan. 
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24 May 1947 WW2 Shigeru Yoshida stepped down as the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister of Japan. 
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26 May 1947 WW2 Chinese communist forces captured Faku County, Liaoning Province, China. 
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27 May 1947 WW2 Chinese communist forces captured Changtu County, Liaoning Province, China. 
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27 May 1947 WW2 Daniel Inouye was honorably discharged from the US Army at the rank of captain. 
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28 May 1947 WW2 Dong Zhao was awarded the Order of Precious Tripod 4th Class. 
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01 Jun 1947 WW2 The United States ended the rationing of sugar. 
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02 Jun 1947 WW2 Stepan Petrichenko, a former spy for the Soviet Union in Finland but had fell out of favor with the leadership, died while in captivity at the Solikamsk Labor Camp in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast, Russia. 
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04 Jun 1947 WW2 To combat the increasing amount of pilfering, the Soviet Union, at Stalin's insistence, passed a new draconian law increasing the penalty for economic crime. Between 1947 and 1952 some one and a half million (often desperate or hungry) Russians would be sent to the gulag camps on charges of state theft often for quite trivial misdemeanours. 
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05 Jun 1947 WW2 The Marshall Plan was proposed. 
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09 Jun 1947 WW2 Jean de Laborde's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. 
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12 Jun 1947 WW2 Richard O'Connor was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. 
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15 Jun 1947 WW2 Chinese communist forces began an attack on Siping, Liaobei Province, China. 
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19 Jun 1947 WW2 Commander Oliver Bagby became the commanding officer of USS Charr. 
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27 Jun 1947 WW2 Robert Saundby was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold II with Palms by Belgium. 
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27 Jun 1947 WW2 USS Washington was decommissioned from service. 
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27 Jun 1947 WW2 North Carolina was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Jun 1947 WW2 Laffey (Allen M. Sumner-class) was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Jun 1947 WW2 Chinese Nationalist forces lifted the siege of Siping, Liaobei Province, China. 
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30 Jun 1947 WW2 USS Miami was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Jul 1947 WW2 Tribune was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Jul 1947 WW2 Hanyang Arsenal in Hanyang County, Hubei Province, China officially ceased to exist. 
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06 Jul 1947 WW2 The AK-47 assault rifle entered production in the Soviet Union. 
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06 Jul 1947 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze was transferred to the Republic of China as war reparation. 
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08 Jul 1947 WW2 Du Yuming arrived in Shanghai, China. 
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17 Jul 1947 WW2 Raoul Wallenberg passed away in Soviet captivity to unknown cause. 
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19 Jul 1947 WW2 Aung San was assassinated in Rangoon, Burma. 
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20 Jul 1947 WW2 The Dutch authorised a "Police Action" involving three divisions on Java and three Brigades on the larger, but less populated, Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch forces managed to capture most towns and interned the Nationalist insurgents, but most insurgents fled to the hills where they continued to mount guerrilla raids. 
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26 Jul 1947 WW2 The Soviet MGB moved Finnish prisoners from labor camps to the Vladimir Prison in Vladimir, Russia to keep their whereabouts secret. 
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28 Jul 1947 WW2 British engineers demolished the smaller building of the Berlin Zoo Flak Tower complex in Berlin, Germany. 
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30 Jul 1947 WW2 Chen Cheng was named the commander-in-chief of Nationalist forces in northeastern China. 
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30 Jul 1947 WW2 USS Boarfish became the flagship of Rear Admiral Allan Rockwell McCann of Task Group 17.3, which was to embark on the first expedition under the Polar Ice Cap in the Bering Strait. 
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01 Aug 1947 WW2 Arthur Coningham retired from the Royal Air Force. 
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01 Aug 1947 WW2 FR Fireball piston-jet mix-powered fighters were withdrawn from service by the US Navy. 
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12 Aug 1947 WW2 Formidable was decommissioned from service. 
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14 Aug 1947 WW2 Pakistan was granted independence by the United Kingdom, forming the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. 
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14 Aug 1947 WW2 Josias was sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement with Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany. 
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15 Aug 1947 WW2 India was granted independence by the United Kingdom, forming the Republic of India. "Jai Hind", the battle cry of the Indian National Army, became India's first commemorative postal marking. 
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16 Aug 1947 WW2 Graf Zeppelin sank in the Baltic Sea, possibly as a target ship for the Soviet Navy. 
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16 Aug 1947 WW2 Captain Stanley Leith was named the commanding officer of USS Saint Paul. 
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19 Aug 1947 WW2 Ilse Koch was found guilty of violating laws and customs of war, and sentenced to life imprisonment. 
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20 Aug 1947 WW2 The Doctors' Trial ended in Nuremberg, in which an United States military court found 16 of the 20 doctors and 3 Nazi officials guilty of human experimentation. 7 were given death sentences and 9 were given prison sentences. 
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29 Aug 1947 WW2 Salt Lake City was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Aug 1947 WW2 US Marines departed China. 
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30 Aug 1947 WW2 USS Missouri arrived at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
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30 Aug 1947 WW2 British engineers set off 25 tons of explosives in a failed attempt to demolish the main building of the Berlin Zoo Flak Tower in Berlin, Germany. 
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31 Aug 1947 WW2 Ira Eaker retired from the US Army. 
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01 Sep 1947 WW2 About half of university students in the United States on this date were WW2 veterans. 
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02 Sep 1947 WW2 US President Harry Truman embarked USS Missouri at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
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03 Sep 1947 WW2 Song Tingcai led 400 militia troops in a failed action against a much larger Communist force at Tianhu, Henan Province, China. 
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04 Sep 1947 WW2 USS Brill departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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07 Sep 1947 WW2 USS Missouri arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, United States, disembarking US President Harry Truman. 
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10 Sep 1947 WW2 Hatazo Adachi passed away. 
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10 Sep 1947 WW2 The Soviet Politburo approved 9 more open trials of 137 accused German war criminals. 
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11 Sep 1947 WW2 Indiana was decommissioned from service. 
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18 Sep 1947 WW2 The United States Air Force (USAF) became an officially independent member of the newly unified US armed services, and was no longer under the control of the US Army. 
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20 Sep 1947 RELIGIOUS English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Those who suffer the same things from the same people for the same Person can scarcely not love each other.'
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21 Sep 1947 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was given the medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow". 
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22 Sep 1947 WW2 USS Becuna completed her scheduled overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
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23 Sep 1947 WW2 USS Missouri entered New York Naval Shipyard in New York, United States for a scheduled overhaul. 
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27 Sep 1947 RELIGIOUS The Church of South India was officially formed by the merger of three denominations: the Anglicans, the Methodists and the South India United Church (a Presbyterian and Congregational union). Historically, it was the first union ever between episcopal and non-episcopal bodies.
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29 Sep 1947 WW2 USS Brill began a scheduled overhaul at San Francisco Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California, United States. 
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01 Oct 1947 WW2 XP-86 prototype jet fighter flew for the first time at Muroc Field, California, United States with George Welch in the cockpit. 
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02 Oct 1947 WW2 Capitaine de vaisseau Beaussant was named the commanding officer of Jeanne d'Arc. 
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03 Oct 1947 WW2 Capitaine de vaisseau Cabanier was named the commanding officer of Jeanne d'Arc. 
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10 Oct 1947 WW2 The US firm Curtiss-Wright closed its aircraft manufacturing division. 
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14 Oct 1947 WW2 Prince Yasuhiko lost his imperial status and privileges and was made a common citizen. 
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18 Oct 1947 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un lost his Japanese citizenship and became a stateless person. 
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20 Oct 1947 WW2 Destroyer HMCS Cayuga was commissioned into service with Commander O. C. S. Robertson in command. 
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27 Oct 1947 WW2 Fanni Luukkonen passed away from a heart attack in Helsinki, Finland. 
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28 Oct 1947 WW2 Louis Mountbatten was made Earl Mountbatten of Burma. 
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03 Nov 1947 WW2 Pohl Trial in Nuremberg ended; out of 17 defendants, 2 were acquitted while the other 15 former SS men were found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, largely for their role in the atrocities committed against concentration camp victims. 
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03 Nov 1947 WW2 John Winant committed suicide in his home in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. 
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06 Nov 1947 WW2 Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the fifth time. 
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08 Nov 1947 WW2 Constantin Sănătescu passed away. 
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15 Nov 1947 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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15 Nov 1947 WW2 USS Boarfish arrived at Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California, United States for a scheduled overhaul. 
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18 Nov 1947 WW2 Arthur Coningham was awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Orange Nassau of the Netherlands. 
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23 Nov 1947 RELIGIOUS E. L. Sukenik of Jerusalem's Hebrew University first received word of the existence of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The documents, dating between 200 BC and AD 70, had been accidentally discovered the previous winter (1946_47) by two Bedouin shepherds in the vicinity of Qumran.
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24 Nov 1947 WW2 The First Auschwitz Trial against 40 former camp staff members, including Arthur Liebehenschel, began in Kraków, Poland. 
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26 Nov 1947 WW2 Gusztáv Jány passed away in Budapest, Hungary. 
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26 Nov 1947 WW2 Wolverine was transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal. 
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29 Nov 1947 WW2 The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine (The Partition Plan). 
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01 Dec 1947 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at Brisbane, Australia. 
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02 Dec 1947 WW2 Ivan Bagramyan was awarded the Order of Lenin for the third time. 
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06 Dec 1947 WW2 Tadashige Daigo passed away. 
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06 Dec 1947 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Brisbane, Australia. 
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12 Dec 1947 WW2 Victoria Cross winner Nand Singh of the Indian Army was killed whilst leading a successful attack to extricate his battalion from an ambush by Kashmir raiders from Pakistan. 
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14 Dec 1947 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at Guam. 
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16 Dec 1947 WW2 The First Auschwitz Trial against 40 former camp staff members, including Arthur Liebehenschel, ended in Kraków, Poland. 
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20 Dec 1947 WW2 HMAS Hobart was decommissioned from service. 
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25 Dec 1947 WW2 The Constitution of the Republic of China came into effect. 
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28 Dec 1947 WW2 Vittorio Emanuele III passed away. 
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30 Dec 1947 WW2 King Mihai I of Romania was forced to abdicate the throne by the Soviet-backed communist government. 
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