1947

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1946 1947 1948

Events

Saskatchewan, under Premier Tommy Douglas, becomes first Canadian province to provide public, universal hospital insurance. Other Canadian provinces soon follow.
Britain evacuates 75,000 British personnel and dependents from Palestine.
War in Palestine sends first wave of Palestinian refugees to Lebanon.
Japanese parliament passes The Child Welfare Law.
U.S. Congress passes Taft-Hartley Act; Democratic President Harry S. Truman vetoes the anti-working class legislation but Republican majority overrides his veto. The law undermines labor union organizing efforts outside the industrial northeast.

February 11: Radio celeb Walter Winchell tells America that Lucky Luciano is sonsorting with known criminals and crooked Cuban politicians in Havana, including Meyer Lansky, Senator Eduardo Suarez Rivas and Congressman Indelicio Pertierra.

March 12: Truman Doctrine is announced. The Cold War is off to an incredible start.
March 12: Mitt Romney is born in Detroit Michigan, although it is not his "home town."
March 24: The 22nd Amendment is passed by Congress.

April 8: Nominations of Edgar Witt, William Holt and Louis O'Marr as the first three members of the Indian Claims Commission sail through Senate approval. None is a Native American and all will oppose giving Native Americans more than a tiny fraction of nthe value stolen from them.
April 15: Jackie Robinson plays in a baseball game for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color barrier.

U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman signs act launching the Truman Doctrine: $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.

June 3: Partition Plan for India is released.
June 5: U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall delivers Marshall Plan speech at Harvard University.
June 24: Pilot Kenneth Arnold makes first reported sighting of what are thereafter called "flying saucers".

July 8: Crash of a "flying saucer" reported in Roswell, New Mexico by Maj. William M. "Mac" Brazel.

October 26: Future First Lady and New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is born in Chicago, Illinois.

November 15: Future New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is born in Pasadena, California.
November 29: United Nations votes 33 (including America and the Soviet Union) to 13 with 10 abstentions (including Britain) to partition Palestine between its Arab and Jewish inhabitants.

December 19: National Security Council holds its first meeting and decides on an all-out covert psych-war against the Soviet Union.

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