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Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents (full)

1 Events of 1947

- Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

- May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug.

- Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec.

- Undated ^. Ongoing ^. Fictional

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel prizes - Ship events

5 See also - Notes - External links

[edit] Events of 1947

[edit] January

January 1 - British mines nationalized.
January 1 - Nigeria gains limited autonomy.

January 1: Nigeria gains autonomy.

Jan. 3: U.S. Congress first televised.

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.

[edit] 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 in 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 4 - Brother Eliseo F. Soriano was born in Pasay City, Philippines. He is known as "the only sensible preacher of our time" with his televion program Ang Dating Daan or The Old Path aired over UNTV Channel 37.
April 15 - Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play Major League Baseball.
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.
April 18 - The British Royal Navy detonates 6,800 tonnes of explosives in a concerted attempt to destroy the small island of Heligoland, Germany, creating the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] July

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.

[edit] August

Flag of the newly independent Pakistan

Flag of the newly independent India

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 90 years 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 Non 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 (accedes 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] October

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.

[edit] 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 kills 233.
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.

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 21 - Starts the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment, held in Havana, Cuba. The conference ends in 1948, when members finish the Havana Charter.
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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Ongoing

Marshall Plan

[edit] Fictional

The 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit was set in Hollywood, 1947.
In the Futurama episode "Roswell That Ends Well," Fry accidentally put metal in the microwave and everyone in Planet Express went back to July 9, 1947.
In Back to the Future Part III, Doc Brown said that suitable parts for his time-circuits are invented.
In the Lost in Space (1965) episode "Visit to a Hostile Planet," this is the year that the space family Robinson lands on earth, having traveled back in time.

[edit] 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)
Coptic calendar	1663 – 1664
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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[edit] 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 18 - Dieter Spreen, a German mathematician
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 10 - Nicholas Owen, English newsreader (ITN)
February 13 - Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball coach
February 15 - John Coolidge Adams, American composer
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

[edit] 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 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist
March 13 - Beat Richner, Swiss pediatrician and cellist
March 14 - Pam Ayres, British poet
March 14 - Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
March 15 - Ry Cooder, American guitarist
March 17 - Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born Composer and Producer
March 19 - Glenn Close, American actress
March 20 - John Boswell, American historian (d. 1994)
March 24 - Louise Lanctôt, Canadian terrorist and writer
March 25 - Elton John, English singer, pianist, and songwriter
March 27 - Walt Mossberg, American newspaper columnist

April 1 - Alain Connes, French mathematician
April 2 - Emmylou Harris, American singer
April 2 - Camille Paglia, American literary critic
April 4 - Eliseo Soriano, Philippine preacher
April 5 - Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, incumbent Philippine president and daughter of former president Diosdado Macapagal
April 6 - John Ratzenberger, American actor
April 8 - Tom DeLay, American politician
April 11 - Deem Bristow, American video game actor (d. 2005)
April 12 - Tom Clancy, American author
April 12 - David Letterman, American entertainer
April 13 - Joanna Lexth
April 15 - Lois Chiles, American actress
April 15 - Mike Chapman, Australian-born record producer and songwriter
April 16 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
April 18 - Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)
April 18 - James Woods, American actor
April 19 - Murray Perahia, American pianist
April 21 - Iggy Pop, American musician (The Stooges)
April 21 - John Weider, British musician (Eric Burdon and the Animals and Family)
April 23 - Philip Schneider, American engineer
April 25 - Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer and coach
April 29 - Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian philosopher
April 30 - Leslie Grantham, British actor

[edit] May-June

May 4 - Theda Skocpol, American sociologist
May 6 - Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
May 7 - Susan Rasmussen, Exceptional Violinst and music teacher who continues to this day to influence the lives of others and forever will be remembered for her kindness, intellect and wit.
May 8 - H. Robert Horvitz, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
May 13 - Stephen R. Donaldson, American novelist
May 19 - Paul Brady, Northern Ireland singer/songwriter
May 23 - Bernard Comrie, English linguist
May 24 - Maude Barlow, Canadian author, activist and National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians
May 26 - Glenn Turner, New Zealand cricket captains
May 27 - Branko Oblak, Slovenian football player and coach