Feb. Czech Communists seized control of the country in a coup d’état. Anti-Stalinist communists and socialists were arrested, imprisoned, or sent to forced-labor camps. Rene d'Harnoncourt -> gives Wolfgang Paalen a one man show in the San Francisco Museum of Art. Arab - Israeli War ->. Laurence Olivier's film version of Hamlet makes its world premiere in London. Back to 1947 Forward to 1949