Dead Sea Scrolls discovered
1947 · Event
Bedouin shepherds find ancient Jewish manuscripts near Qumran, the oldest known biblical texts.
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- Nakba (1948)
- Battle of Hattin (1187)
- Fall of Acre (1291)
Around 1947
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- Sputnik launch (1957)
- German invasion of Poland (1939)
- Cold War (1947)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Death of Hitler / Fall of Berlin (1945)
- Fall of France (1940)