The Indian Independence Act 1947 [1947 CHAPTER 30 10 and 11 Geo 6] is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan.The Act received Royal Assent on 18 July 1947 and thus modern-day India and Pakistan, comprising west (modern day Pakistan) and east (modern day …

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 1947 Technicolor comedy film, loosely based on the 1939 short story of the same name by James Thurber.The film stars Danny Kaye as a young daydreaming proofreader (later associate editor) for a magazine publishing firm and Virginia Mayo as the girl of his dreams. The film was adapted for the screen by Ken Englund, Everett …

Kotli (Urdu: کوٹلی) is a city in Kotli District of Azad Kashmir, in Pakistan.It lies on the Poonch River, and the river contains several notable waterfalls including the Lala Waterfall near the town of Kotli and the Gulpur Waterfalls at the village of Gulpur to the southwest. As per 2017 Census of Pakistan, Kotli had a population of 46,907.

This article is part of a series on the History of rail transport in Great Britain. The history of rail transport in Great Britain 1923–1947 covers the period when the British railway system was run by the Big Four group of companies – the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS); the Great Western Railway (GWR); the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER); and the Southern …

1947: en Paso de los Libres y Uruguaiana los presidentes Juan Domingo Perón (de Argentina) y Eurico Gaspar Dutra (de Brasil) inauguran el Puente Internacional Agustín P. Justo - Getulio Vargas (habilitado al público desde dos años antes). Junio

The 1947 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Profesional was Chilean first tier’s 15th season. Colo-Colo was the tournament’s champion, winning its fifth title. Scores. AUD BAD COL EVE GCR IBE MAG SMO SNA UES UCA UCH SWA; Audax: 1–3 2–1 ...

Nord. Die Fußball-Oberliga Nord wurde in der Saison 1947/48 erstmals ausgetragen. Erster Norddeutscher Meister nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde der Hamburger SV. Die jeweils besten vier Mannschaften der Oberligen Nord und West ermittelten im Anschluss über die britische Zonenmeisterschaft zwei Teilnehmer an der deutschen Meisterschaft 1947/48, dies waren der …

The National Security Act of 1947 (Pub.L. 80-253, 61 Stat. 495, enacted July 26, 1947) was a law enacting major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II.The majority of the provisions of the act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first secretary of defense.

The 1947 UN Partition Plan allocated this territory to the Jewish state. Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , Syria seized some land that had been allocated to the Jewish state and under the 1949 Armistice Agreements with Israel retained 66 square kilometers of that territory in the Jordan Valley that lay west of the 1923 Palestinian Mandate ...

Hans Wilhelm Münch (14 May 1911 – 6 December 2001), also known as The Good Man of Auschwitz, was a German Nazi Party member who worked as an SS doctor during World War II at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945 in German occupied Poland.He was acquitted of war crimes at a 1947 trial in Kraków.. Münch was nicknamed The Good Man of …

Brute Force (aka Zelle R 17) is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by Jules Dassin, from a screenplay by Richard Brooks with cinematography by William H. Daniels.It stars Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford,and Yvonne De Carlo.. This was among several noir films made by Dassin during the postwar period. The others were Thieves' Highway, Night and the City …

Population non germanique. En 1871, environ 2,4 millions de Polonais vivent en Prusse, constituant la plus forte minorité. Les autres minorités se composent de Juifs, Danois, Frisons, Cachoubes (72 500 en 1905), Masuriens (248 000 en 1905), Lituaniens (101 500 en 1905), Wallons, Tchèques, Kurseniekis et Sorabes.. La zone située en Grande-Pologne devient la …

Jill Susan Eikenberry (born January 21, 1947) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role as lawyer Ann Kelsey on the NBC drama L.A. Law (1986–94), for which she is a five-time Emmy Award and four-time Golden Globe Award nominee, winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series in 1989. She received an Obie Award in 1986 for the …

The Great Fires of 1947 were a series of forest fires in the State of Maine in the United States that destroyed a total area of 17,188 acres (6,956 ha) of wooded land on Mount Desert Island and 200,000 acres (81,000 ha) statewide. Collectively, the fires killed a total of 16 people. This disaster is an important part of the local history of the York County and Mount Desert Island areas.