February 1947

Monday 03:

Percival Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House and Senate press gallery.

Monday 10:

Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.

Monday 17:

Propaganda: The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union.

Friday 21:

In New York City Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.

Sunday 23:

International Organization for Standardization(ISO) is founded.

Friday 28:

February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with large loss of civilian lives.