1947

Clockwise, from top left: A overcrowded train transferring many refugees, the roof is completely packed, about 4 doors are seen and people are seen struggling to get in to the right of this image, a seperate map of europe is shown, where Iceland, Ireland, The United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, West Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, France, Austria, Switzerland, italy, Greece and Turkey are colored in a moderate tone of green, inside of the borders there is a blue bar that extends upwards, the tallest ones being Britain, France and Western Germany/ The Low Lands, the third image shows President Truman giving a speech on a desk, you can see a table in front of him and he appears to be sitting, to the right of this image, a United Nations room can be seen, a big flat image of a globe centering the world can be seen, in front of it are three people seating followed by a person standing, talking, and a entire room of peopl eseated, looking forward towards the man speaking, the bottom two pictures are the ruins of a ship, taken from a camera which shows a blurry image of a ship that is damaged, the last image shows about 11 soldiers fighting in a field during the Indian-Pakistan war of 1947 to 1948.
From the left to right and top to bottom: An overcrowded train transferring refugees from Delhi to Pakistan during the Partition of India; A map showing the aid which will be allocated to European countries in 1948 under the Marshall Plan; President Harry S. Truman addressing a joint session of Congress, in a speech which would become known as the Truman Doctrine, officially beginning the Cold War; UN general assembly in NYC, Queens, 1947, to vote for the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine; The SS High Flyer or SS Wilson B. Keene, three days after the Texas City disaster, which killed approximately 581 people; Indian soldiers fighting during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948
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1947 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1947
MCMXLVII
Ab urbe condita2700
Armenian calendar1396
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԶ
Assyrian calendar6697
Baháʼí calendar103–104
Balinese saka calendar1868–1869
Bengali calendar1354
Berber calendar2897
British Regnal year11 Geo. 6 – 12 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2491
Burmese calendar1309
Byzantine calendar7455–7456
Chinese calendar丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
4644 or 4437
    — to —
丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
4645 or 4438
Coptic calendar1663–1664
Discordian calendar3113
Ethiopian calendar1939–1940
Hebrew calendar5707–5708
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2003–2004
 - Shaka Samvat1868–1869
 - Kali Yuga5047–5048
Holocene calendar11947
Igbo calendar947–948
Iranian calendar1325–1326
Islamic calendar1366–1367
Japanese calendarShōwa 22
(昭和２２年)
Javanese calendar1878–1879
Juche calendar36
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4280
Minguo calendarROC 36
民國36年
Nanakshahi calendar479
Thai solar calendar2490
Tibetan calendar阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
2073 or 1692 or 920
    — to —
阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
2074 or 1693 or 921
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1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.

It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.