The temperature on March 1, 1947 was between -6.1 °C and -0.7 °C and averaged -3.3 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 9 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to Corfu Channel incident is adopted.
August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
August 15 » India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
November 29 » Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.
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