Editing 1947 (section)

===August===
{{Main|August 1947}}
[[File:Flag of Pakistan.svg|thumb|Flag of [[Pakistan]], the country that gained independence on August 14, 1947]]
[[File:Flag of India.svg|thumb|Flag of [[India]], the country that gained independence on August 15, 1947, and became the largest democracy in the world. ]]
* [[August 1]] – Indonesian airline [[Garuda Indonesia]] is established.
* [[August 2]] – [[1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust accident|1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian ''Star Dust'' accident]]: A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile (the wreckage will not be found until 1998).
* [[August 5]] – The Netherlands ends [[Operation Product]], the first of its major military '[[Police actions (Indonesia)|police actions]]' in [[Indonesia]].
* [[August 7]]
** [[Thor Heyerdahl]]'s [[balsa wood]] raft, the ''[[Kon-Tiki]]'', smashes into the [[reef]] at [[Raroia]] in the [[Tuamotu Islands]], after a 101-day, 4,300 mile, voyage across the Eastern Pacific Ocean, demonstrating that prehistoric peoples could have traveled to the Central Pacific islands from South America.
** The [[Bombay Municipal Corporation]] formally takes over the [[Bombay Electric Supply and Transport]] (BEST).
* [[August 14]]
** The Muslim majority regions formed by the [[Partition of India]] gain independence from the [[British Empire]] as the [[Dominion of Pakistan]]. While the transition is officially at midnight on this day, Pakistan celebrates its independence on August 14, compared with India on the 15th, because the [[Pakistan Standard Time]] is 30 minutes behind the standard time of India.
** [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]] becomes the first [[Governor-General of Pakistan|governor-general of Pakistan]]. [[Liaquat Ali Khan]] takes office as the first [[Prime Minister of Pakistan|prime minister of Pakistan]].
* [[August 15]]
** The greater Indian subcontinent, with a mixed population of [[Hindus|Hindu]], [[Sikhs]], [[Buddhism in India|Buddhists]], [[Jainism in India|Jains]], [[Zoroastrianism in India|Zoroasters]], [[Judaism in India|Jews]], [[Christianity in India|Christians]], [[Islam in India|Muslims]] and others formed by the [[Partition of India]], gains independence from the British Empire, as the [[Dominion of India]].  755 years of foreign rule (565 years of Muslim rule (1192–1757) and 190 years British rule (1757–1947)) in India comes to an end.
** [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] takes office as the first [[Prime Minister of India|prime minister of India]], taking his oath from [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Louis Mountbatten, Viscount Mountbatten of Burma]], [[Governor-General of India]] (but no longer [[viceroy]]).
* [[August 16]] – In Greece, General [[Markos Vafiadis]] takes over the government until [[1949]].
* [[August 23]] – The [[Prime Minister of Greece|prime minister of Greece]], [[Dimitrios Maximos]], resigns.
* [[August 27]] – The French government lowers the daily bread [[Rationing|ration]] to 200&nbsp;grams, causing riots in [[Verdun]] and [[Le Mans]].
* [[August 30]] – A fire at a movie theater in [[Rueil-Malmaison|Rueil]], a suburb of Paris, France, kills 83 people.
* [[August 31]] – In [[Hungary]], [[communists]] fail to gain a majority in parliamentary elections (despite widespread fraud) and turn to direct action as part of the country's [[History of Hungary#Transition to communism (1944–1949)|transition to Communism (1944–1949)]].