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`whenYear` >='-3000'
AND `whenYear` ='1947'
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1947
Pakistan
became independent from
United Kingdom
on
8/14/1947
...
116024
India
became independent from
United Kingdom
on
8/15/1947
...
118381
Doc Watson
married
Rosa Lee Carlton
in
1947
...
713689
Edwin Land
invented
Polaroid camera
in
1947
...
311103
William Shockley, Walter Brattain, John Bardeen
invented
Transistor
in
1947
...
340742
Albert Camus
wrote
The Plague
in
1947
...
339754
Boris Vian
wrote
Froth on the Daydream
in
1947
...
303030
Hedy Lamarr
divorced
John Loder
in
1947
...
713634
Italo Calvino
wrote
The Path to the Spiders Nest
in
1947
...
339726
Malcolm Lowry
wrote
Under the Volcano
in
1947
...
340891
Naguib Mahfouz
wrote
Midaq Alley
in
1947
...
309012
Primo Levi
wrote
If this is a Man
in
1947
...
304634
Raymond Queneau
wrote
Exercises in Style
in
1947
...
301597
Thomas Mann
wrote
Dr Faustus
in
1947
...
300834
Hugo Black
on
2/10/1947
"The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. [Progressive]"
...
-348402
Haganah
entered
1947?1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine
in
1947
...
9126
India
entered
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
in
1947
...
9114
Irgun
entered
1947?1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine
in
1947
...
9131