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Events and trends
Technology
First nuclear bomb
First cruise missile, the V1 flying bomb and the first ballistic missile, the V-2 rocket
First transistor
Colossus, the world's first totally electronic computer. See History of computing hardware
First supersonic flight by Chuck Yeager on October 14, 1947
Science
Quantum electrodynamics developed by Feynman, Dyson, Schwinger, and Tomonaga
Mathematics: game theory, cryptology
War, peace and politics
World War II (ends 1945)
The shoah
Beginning of the Cold War
Independence for some former colonies
1948 Arab-Israeli War
The Irish Free State becomes a republic (1948)
The Chinese Civil War ends in victory for the Communists
Informbiro period in Yugoslavia begins
Indian independence and partition
US Air Force civilian auxiliary the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) formed
Economics
The Marshall Plan is implemented by the United States, giving billions of dollars in aid to reconstruct the war-devastated economies of Europe
Culture, religion
Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life
The NBA begins play, in 1947
Others
People
World leaders
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada)
President Lin Sen (Republic of China)
President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China)
Marshal Henri Petain (Vichy France}
Adolf Hitler (Germany)
Mohandas Gandhi (India) († 1948)
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (India)
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel)
King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
Pope Pius XII
Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (Éire)
Taoiseach John A. Costello (Republic of Ireland)
Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
Prime Minister Winston Churchill (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister Clement Attlee (United Kingdom)
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (United States)
President Harry S. Truman (United States)
Governor Luis Muñoz Marín (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico)
President Getúlio Vargas (Brazil)
Sports figures
Joe Louis
Sugar Ray Robinson
Ted Williams
Jackie Robinson
Joe DiMaggio
Sammy Baugh
Steve Van Buren
Satchel Paige
Entertainers
Abbott and Costello
Bette Davis
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Cary Grant
Clark Gable
Frank Sinatra
Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman
James Cagney
Jimmy Stewart
Katharine Hepburn
Lauren Bacall
John Wayne
Orson Welles
Spencer Tracy
Category:1940s
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