World Series pennant with player rosters for the National League Dodgers and the American League Yankees, 1947
From the collection of Jerry Stern, photograph by David Arky
In 1947:
- The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.
- Physicists at Bell Laboratories demonstrate the first transistor.
- The Bureau of Employment and Migration of the Government of Puerto Rico opens in New York City.
- New York's first fully air-conditioned office building opens at 445 Park Avenue.
The Yankees win the World Series over the Dodgers, four games to three.
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