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| 1947 |
| | | Muslim leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes the first governor-general of the new state of Pakistan | |
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| 1947 |
| | | J.B. Priestley challenges audiences with An Inspector Calls, a play in which moral guilt spreads like an infection | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Baseball-player Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American in a major league team | |
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| 1947 |
| | | French designer Christian Dior introduces the 'New Look', a lavish feminine style of dress welcomed by all after wartime austerity | |
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| 1947 |
| | | US artist Jackson Pollock's drip paintings cause a stir in New York | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Muslims proclaim an independent state in west Kashmir, defying the wishes of the maharaja | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Italian author Primo Levi publishes If This Is a Man, based on his experiences in Auschwitz | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Violent sectarian division in Kashmir results in war between India and Pakistan in support of the rival sides | |
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| 1947 |
| | | The UN puts forward a plan for the partition of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Stafford Cripps becomes Britain's chancellor of the Exchequer in the Attlee government | |
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