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1947

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Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
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Years: 1944 1945 1946 - 1947 - 1948 1949 1950
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1947 (MCMXLVII) was a 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

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January 1: Nigeria gains autonomy.
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Jan. 3: U.S. Congress first televised.
  • January 1 - British mines nationalized
  • January 1 - Nigeria gains limited autonomy
  • January 1 - The Canadian Citizenship Act goes into effect
  • January 3 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
  • January 10 - United Nations takes control of the free city of Trieste
  • January 15 - Elizabeth Short (the "Black Dahlia") is found murdered
  • January 16 - Inauguration of Vincent Auriol as a president of France
  • January 19 - 392 drown in a shipwreck near Athens, Greece
  • January 24 - Demetrios Maximos founds monarchist government in Athens
  • January 25 - Philippine plane crashes in Hong Kong with $5 million worth of gold and money
  • January 30 - February 8 - heavy blizzard in Canada buries towns from Winnipeg to Calgary
  • January 31 - Communists take power in Poland.


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 begins to transmit 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

  • March 1 - The International Monetary Fund begins to operate.
  • March 1 - Wernher von Braun marries his first cousin, 18-year-old Maria von Quirstorp.
  • March 1 - Japanese city Tsushima, Aichi is founded
  • March 6 - USS Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.
  • March 12 - The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
  • March 15 - Hindus and Muslims clash in Punjab
  • March 21 - Homer Collyer of the Collyer brothers is found dead in their house in Harlem, New York City. His brother is found April 8
  • March 25 - A coalmine explosion in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
  • March 28 - WW2 Japanese booby trap explodes in Corregidor - 28 dead
  • March 29 - Rebellion against French rule erupts in Madagascar

April

  • April 1 - Jackie Robinson, the first African American baseball professional, signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers
  • April 1 - King George II of Greece dies of a heart attack, succeeded by his brother King Paul I.
  • April 3 - Alan Richardson Osborne is born.
  • April 15 - Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be on a professional baseball diamond.
  • April 16 - The Texas City Disaster - Ammonium nitrate cargo of SS Grandcamp explodes in Texas City, Texas - 552 dead, 3000 injured, 200 lost, 20 city blocks destroyed

May

  • May 1 - Gang of Salvatore Giuliano opens fire on a labor parade near Portella Della Ginestra, Sicily; Eleven killed, thirty wounded
  • May 3 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
  • May 22 - Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, President Harry S. Truman signs an act implementing the Truman Doctrine. The act granted $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.

June

  • June 5 - Secretary of State Gen George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for U.S. aid to Europe.
  • June 7 - The ASA (currently Steaua) sport club is founded in Bucharest, Romania.
  • June 10 - Saab produces its first automobile.
  • June 15 - Portuguese government orders 11 military officers and 19 university professors to resign accused of revolutionary activity
  • June 20 - Bugsy Siegel found shot in the Beverly Hills mansion of Virginia Hill
  • June 21 - A Seaman named Harold Dahl claims to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island. The next morning Dahl reports the first modern Men in Black encounter.
  • June 21 - The Canadian Parliament voted unaminiously to pass several laws regarding displaced foreign refugees.
  • June 23 - The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.

July

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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

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Flag of the newly independent India
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Flag of the newly independent Pakistan
  • 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

  • September 4-September 21 - Hurricane in southeast Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama - 51 killed.
  • September 13 - Nehru suggests transfer of 4 million Hindus and Muslims between India and Pakistan.
  • September 18 - The United States Army Air Forces, along with some components of the United States Navy's air arm, becomes the United States Air Force. The National Security Act also created the CIA.

October

  • October 5 - Brian Johnson replacment vocalist for Bon Scott of AC/DC was born
  • October 14 - American test pilot, Captain Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
  • October 20 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 begins
  • October 30 - The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is founded.

November

  • November 2 - In California, Designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built (flight lasted only eight minutes).
  • November 2 - Earthquake in Chilean Andes - 233 dead
  • November 10 - Arrest of four steel workers in Marseille begins a communist rioting that spreads to Paris
  • November 16 - 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against the relatively short sentences of Nazis.
  • November 16 - British begin to withdraw their troops from Palestine.
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The Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh on their wedding day
  • November 20 - The Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King George VI marries the Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey, London.
  • November 20 - Paul Ramadier resigns as Prime Minister of France - he is succeeded by Robert Schuman. Schuman calls 80,000 reservists to quell the rioting miners
  • November 24 - Red Scare: The United States House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt of U.S. Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10 after the 10 had refused to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communist influence in the movie industry, (the 10 were blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios the next day).
  • November 25 - New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
  • November 27 - In Paris, police occupy editorial offices of communist newspapers.
  • November 29 - The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

December

  • December 3 - French communist strikers derail Paris-Tourcoing Express train because of false rumors that it was transporting soldiers - 21 dead
  • December 3 - Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway.
  • December 4 - French interior minister Jules Moch secures emergency measures against riots after six days of violent arguments in the national assembly
  • December 9 - French labour unions calls off the general strike and begin negotiations with the French government
  • December 12 - the Iranian royal army takes back power on Azerbaijan province.
  • December 22 - the Italian Constituent Assembly votes to accept the new constitution.
  • December 22 - the first practical Transistor is demonstrated.
  • December 30 - King Michael of Romania abdicates

Undated

  • The House Un-American Activities Committee begin their investigations of communism in Hollywood.
  • Cambridge University begins to admit women as full students.
  • Mikhail Kalashnikov designs the AK-47 assault rifle.
  • Walter Frederick Morrison invents the Frisbee.
  • Raytheon produces first commercial microwave oven.
  • Women's suffrage is granted in Argentina.
  • The people's Republic of Mahabad the 2nd kurdish state in kurdish history in Iran is conquered by Iranian forces. The leaders were hanged at the Chuwarchira Square in Mahabad.
  • In a cave in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea), several tall pottery jars containing leather scrolls are discovered, which later became known as the Dead Sea scrolls.[1]
  • By discovery of Promethium in products of nuclear fission, last gap of periodic table was closed.

Births

1947 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1947
MCMXLVII
Ab urbe condita 2700
Armenian calendar 1396
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԶ
Bahá'í calendar 103 – 104
Buddhist calendar 2491
Chinese calendar 4583/4643-12-10
(丙戌年十二月初十日)
— to —
4584/4644-11-20
(丁亥年十一月二十日)
Ethiopian calendar 1939 – 1940
Hebrew calendar 5707 – 5708
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 2002 – 2003
 - Shaka Samvat 1869 – 1870
 - Kali Yuga 5048 – 5049
Holocene calendar 11947
Iranian calendar 1325 – 1326
Islamic calendar 1366 – 1367
Japanese calendar Shōwa 22

(昭和22年)

 - Imperial Year Kōki 2607
(皇紀2607年)
 - Jōmon Era 11947
Julian calendar 1992
Korean calendar 4280
Thai solar calendar 2490
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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 -