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August 1947 Tropical Ephemeris

What happened in August 1947

• August 1, 1947: Garuda Indonesia, an Indonesian airline, is established.
• August 2, 1947: A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain in Argentina, killing all 11 passengers and crew. The wreckage is not found until 1998.
• August 5, 1947: The Netherlands ends Operation Product, its first major military action in Indonesia.
• August 7, 1947: Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, reaches the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 4,300-mile voyage across the Eastern Pacific Ocean, demonstrating the possibility of prehistoric travel from South America to the Central Pacific islands.
• August 14, 1947: The Muslim-majority regions of India gain independence from the British Empire as the Dominion of Pakistan.
• August 15, 1947: The Indian subcontinent, with a diverse population of Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Zoroastrians, Jews, Christians, Muslims, and others, gains independence from the British Empire as the Dominion of India.
• August 16, 1947: General Markos Vafiadis takes over the government in Greece, leading until 1949.
• August 23, 1947: Dimitrios Maximos, the prime minister of Greece, resigns.
• August 27, 1947: The French government reduces the daily bread ration to 200 grams, sparking riots in Verdun and Le Mans.
• August 30, 1947: A fire at a movie theater in Rueil, a suburb of Paris, France, kills 83 people.
• August 31, 1947: In Hungary, communists fail to gain a majority in parliamentary elections despite widespread fraud, leading to direct action as part of the country's transition to Communism (1944–1949).