Editing 1947 (section)

===September===
{{Main|September 1947}}
[[File:Seal of the Central Intelligence Agency.svg|thumb|200px|The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA), officially born September 18, 1947]]
* [[September 9]]
** [[Women's suffrage]] is agreed by [[Argentina]]'s Congress.
** A moth lodged in a [[relay]] is found to be the cause of a malfunction in the [[Harvard Mark II]] electromechanical computer, logged as the "First actual case of [[Software bug|bug]] being found."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/bug.html |title='''bug''':n. |work=The Jargon File |access-date=2012-01-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/main?edan_q=Log+book+with+computer+bug&op=Search |title=Log Book With Computer Bug |publisher=[[National Museum of American History]] |access-date=2013-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140927135534/http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/main?edan_q=Log+book+with+computer+bug&op=Search |archive-date=September 27, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] – Indian Prime Minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] suggests the exchange of four million Hindus and Muslims between India and [[Pakistan]].
* [[September 15]]–[[September 16|16]] – [[Typhoon Kathleen]] strikes the [[Bōsō Peninsula]] and the entire [[Kantō region]] in Japan. Heavy rains cause the [[Arakawa River (Kanto)|Arakawa]] and [[Tone River]]s to overflow and embankment collapse. The resulting floods and [[debris flow]] kill between 1,077 and 1,920 people, injuring 1,547<ref>Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official report. [[:ja:キャスリーン台風]] (Japanese language) Retrieved February 20, 2017.</ref> and leaving 853 missing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.arajo.ktr.mlit.go.jp/english/eng-pamph/12-13.html |title=Arajo.ktr.mlit.go.jp}}{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[September 17]]–[[September 21|21]] – The [[1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane]] in southeastern [[Florida]], and also in [[Alabama]], [[Mississippi]], and [[Louisiana]] causes widespread damage, and kills 50 people.
* [[September 18]] – In the United States:
** The [[National Security Act of 1947]] becomes effective on this day, creating the [[United States Air Force]], [[National Security Council (United States)|National Security Council]] and the [[Central Intelligence Agency]].
** The [[United States Department of War|Department of War]] becomes the [[Department of the Army]], a branch of the new [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]].
* [[September 22]] – The Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties ([[Cominform]]) is founded by the [[International Communist Movement]].
* [[September 30]] – [[Pakistan]] and [[Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen|Yemen]] join the [[United Nations]].