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1947 (MCMXLVII common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar).
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Undated
2 Births
2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December 2.7 Unknown dates
3 Deaths
3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December
4 Nobel prizes 5 Ship events 6 Fictional references 7 References
Events January
February February 3 - In Snag, Yukon Territory, -63 degrees Celsius, lowest recorded temperature in North America.
February 3 - Percival Prattis becomes the first black news correspondent allowed in the United States House of Representatives and Senate press gallery.
February 5 - Boleslaw Bierut becomes president of Poland
February 8 - A dance hall fire in Berlin kills over 80.
February 10 - Paris peace treaties signed between the World War II Allies and Italy , Hungary , Romania , Bulgaria and Finland : Italy cedes most of Istria to Yugoslavia
February 12 - A meteor creates a crater into Sikhote-Alin , Soviet Union
February 17 - Propaganda : The Voice of America radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union .
February 20 - Explosion at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Co in Los Angeles, California - 17 dead, 100 buildings damaged, 22-foot crater
February 21 - In New York City , Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera , to a meeting of the Optical Society of America .
February 23 - International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
February 25 - State of Prussia ceases to exist
February 25 - Worst train wreck in Japan kills 184.
February 28 - USA gives France a military base in Casablanca
February 28 - In Taiwan , civil disorder is put down with large loss of civilian lives.
March April May June July Image:CIA.svg The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), created July 1947
July 1 - The Australian real estate franchise L. J. Hooker lists on the Australian Stock Exchange
July 5 - Downed UFO allegedly found in the Roswell UFO incident , written about by Stanton T. Friedman .
July 10 - Princess Elizabeth announces engagement to Philip Mountbatten
July 11 - Exodus (ship) departs France to Palestine with 4500 Jewish Holocaust survivor refugees
July 18 - Following wide media and UNSCOP coverage, Exodus (ship) is captured by British troops and refused entry to Palestine in the port of Haifa
July 18 - President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President .
July 19 - Murder of Burmese nationalist Aung San
July 24 - 100 year anniversary of Brigham Young leading 148 Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City .
July 26 - Cold War : U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency , Department of Defense , Joint Chiefs of Staff , and the National Security Council .
July 29 - After being shut off on November 9 , 1946 for a refurbishment, ENIAC , one of the world's first digital computers , is turned on after a memory upgrade. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2 , 1955 .
July 30 - Thor Heyerdahl sails with Kon-Tiki
August August 4 - UK Betty Moore from Horsham, Sussex, sails in her first Cowes Week. 59 years later she is awarded the Skandia Cowes Week Ladies Day Trophy after campaigning her Solent Sunbeam, WHY, in all 60 consecutive regattas.
August 5 - Netherlands stops political 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 journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America .
August 7 - The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
August 9 - Beginning the 6 Scout World Jamboree - see Jamboree Scout 1947 (in French)
August 14 - After centuries of British colonial rule, Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire under the leadership of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah . While the transition is officially at midnight on this day, Pakistan celebrates its independence on August 14 compared to India on the 15th. Muhammad Ali Jinnah became the first Governor General of Pakistan.
August 15 - Following decades of violent resistance and periodic civil unrest from 1919, India gains independence from the British Empire. Pakistan splits from India. Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as first Prime Minister of India .
August 15 - The Khan of Baluchistan declares independence (acceeds to Pakistan in 1948)
August 16 - In Greece , General Markos Vafiadis takes over
August 23 - Prime Minister of Greece Dimitrios Maximos resigns.
August 27 - When the French government lowers the bread ration to 200 grams, it causes riots in Verdun and Le Mans
August 30 - Fire at a movie theater in Rueil , a suburb of Paris , France kills 87.
August 31 - Communists take power in Hungary .
September October November December Undated Births January-February January 2 - Ai , American poet
January 2 - Jack Hanna , American zoologist
January 3 - Patricia Anthony , American author
January 6 - Sandy Denny , British singer (d. 1978 )
January 7 - Shobha De , Indian writer
January 8 - David Bowie , English musician
January 8 - Jenny Boyd , British model
January 8 - Samuel Schmid , Swiss Federal Councilor
January 9 - Ronnie Landfield , American artist
January 14 - Bill Werbeniuk , Canadian snooker player (d. 2003 )
January 11 - Tom Netherton , American singer
January 11 - Mart Smeets , Dutch sports journalist
January 16 - Laura Schlessinger , American psychologist and radio talk show host
January 18 - Takeshi Kitano , Japanese film director and actor
January 23 - Thomas R. Carper , U.S. Senator from Delaware
January 24 - Warren Zevon , American musician (d. 2003 )
January 26 - Richard Portnow , American actor
January 29 - Linda B. Buck , American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
January 30 - Les Barker , English poet
January 30 - Steve Marriott , British musician (The Small Faces ) (d. 1991 )
January 31 - Nolan Ryan , baseball player
February 1 - Jessica Savitch , American journalist (d. 1983 )
February 2 - Farrah Fawcett , American actress
February 2 - Melanie , American singer
February 3 - Paul Auster , American novelist
February 4 - Dan Quayle , Vice President of the United States
February 5 - Darrell Waltrip , American race car driver and broadcaster
February 10 - Louise Arbour , Canadian jurist
February 13 - Mike Krzyzewski , American basketball coach
February 18 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands
February 18 - Dennis DeYoung , American musician (Styx )
February 20 - Peter Osgood , English footballer (d. 2006 )
February 20 - Peter Strauss , American actor
February 21 - Victor Sokolov , Russian dissident journalist and priest (d. 2006 )
February 24 - Edward James Olmos , American actor
February 25 - Doug Yule , American singer and musician (The Velvet Underground )
February 26 - Sandie Shaw , British singer
February 27 - Gidon Kremer , Latvian violinist
March-April March 4 - David Franzoni , American screenwriter
March 4 - Jan Garbarek , Norwegian musician
March 4 - Gunnar Hansen , Icelandic actor
March 4 - Gwen Welles , American actress (d. 1993 )
March 6 - Kiki Dee , English singer
March 6 - Dick Fosbury , American athlete
March 6 - Teru Miyamoto , Japanese author
March 6 - Rob Reiner , American director, actor, comedian, and producer
March 7 - Matthew Fisher , British singer, songwriter, and producer
March 7 - Walter Röhrl , German race car driver
March 7 - Richard Lawson , American actor
March 8 - Carole Bayer Sager , American composer
March 10 - Kim Campbell , Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1993 )
March 10 - Tom Scholz , American musician, songwriter, and inventor
March 12 -
