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July 6, 1947
On July 6, 1947, referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India. Moses Blah, Jerzy Stuhr, James Woods would arrive in the same year.
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Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
The 1947 Sylhet referendum was held in the Sylhet district of the Assam Province of British India to decide whether the district would remain in undivided Assam and therefore within the post-independence Dominion of India, or leave Assam for East Bengal and consequently join the newly created Dominion of Pakistan. The referendum's turnout was in favour of joining the Pakistani union; however, the district's Karimganj subdivision remained within the Indian state of Assam.
Around 1947
The year in brief
1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.
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On July 6, 1947
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1947 Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India. Referendum in British India
The 1947 Sylhet referendum was held in the Sylhet district of the Assam Province of British India to decide whether the district would remain in undivided Assam and therefore within the post-independence Dominion of India, or leave Assam for East Bengal and consequently join the newly created Dominion of Pakistan. The referendum's turnout was in favour of joining the Pakistani union; however, the district's Karimganj subdivision remained within the Indian state of Assam.
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1947 The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union. Soviet 7.62×39mm assault rifle
62×39mm cartridge. Developed in the Soviet Union by Russian small-arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, it is the originating firearm of the Kalashnikov family of rifles. After more than seven decades since its creation, the AK-47 model and its variants remain one of the most popular and widely used firearms in the world.
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Other moments from 1947
- April 1 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
- April 15 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
- April 16 An explosion on board a freighter in port causes Texas City in the state of Texas, United States, to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.
- April 16 Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- April 18 The Operation Big Bang, the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion to that time, destroys bunkers and military installations on the North Sea island of Heligoland, Germany.
- April 28 Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
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