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 1947 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1947 in the United Kingdom.
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The Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh on their wedding day
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- 6 January - Sandy Denny, singer (died 1978)
- 8 January
- 30 January
- 20 February - Peter Osgood, footballer (died 2006)
- 7 March - Matthew Fisher, singer-songwriter and producer
- 25 March - Elton John, musician
- 23 April - Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Member of Parliament
- 8 May - John Reid, politician
- 2 July - Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton, politician
- 6 June - David Blunkett, former Home Secretary
- 7 July -
- 17 July - The Duchess of Cornwall (nèe Camilla Parker Bowles), the 2nd wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
- 23 July - David Essex, actor and singer
- 19 July - Brian May, guitarist (Queen)
- 23 August - Willy Russell, playwright
- 28 August - Emlyn Hughes, footballer (died 2004)
- 17 September - Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
- 30 September - Marc Bolan, musician (died 1977)
- 5 October - Brian Johnson, singer
- 1 December - Bob Fulton, English-Australian rugby league footballer and coach
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[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 396–397. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b The Lost Decade Timeline, BBC
- ^ Pakistan entry at The World Factbook
- ^ India entry at The World Factbook
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1947
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1947
- ^ The Nobel Peace Prize 1947
- ^ Lattes, C. M. G., Muirhead, H., Occhialini, G. P. S. & Powell, C. F. Processes involving charged mesons. Nature, 159, 694 - 697, (1947).
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