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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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| 1947 |
| | | Jean-Louis Barrault and his wife Madeleine Renaud establish their own company at the Théâtre Marigny in Paris | |
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| c. 1947 |
| | | An Arab boy, herding goats in the Qumran desert, finds the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls | |
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| 1947 |
| | | The first transistor is produced in the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated at a Delhi prayer meeting by a Hindu extremist, Nathuram Godse | |
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| 1948 |
| | | US zoologist Alfred Charles Kinsey publishes some unexpected findings in his Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male | |
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| 1948 |
| | | An armed coup, led by Klement Gottwald, imposes single-party Communist rule in Czechoslovakia | |
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