1947 - What happened in 1947 ?


January 1947


Friday 03:

Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.


Wednesday 22:

Paul Ramadier becomes Prime Minister of France.




February 1947


Monday 03:

Percival Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House and Senate press gallery.


Monday 10:

Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.


Monday 17:

Propaganda: The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union.


Sunday 23:

International Organization for Standardization(ISO) is founded.


Friday 28:

February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with large loss of civilian lives.




March 1947


Saturday 01:

The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.


Friday 07:

The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War.


Wednesday 12:

The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.


Tuesday 25:

A explosion in a coalmine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.


Friday 28:

The last episode of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio.




April 1947


Tuesday 15:

Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.


Wednesday 16:

Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.


Sunday 27:

Babe Ruth Day is celebrated at Yankee Stadium.


Monday 28:

Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.


Wednesday 30:

In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is officially renamed Hoover Dam again.




May 1947


Saturday 03:

New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.


Wednesday 07:

Kraft Television Theater debuts, running for the next 11 years.


Thursday 22:

Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.




June 1947


Thursday 05:

Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.


Tuesday 10:

Saab produces its first automobile.


Saturday 21:

A seaman named Harold Dahl claims to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island, United States. The next morning Dahl reported the first modern MIB encounter.


Monday 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.


Tuesday 24:

First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, notices nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.




July 1947


Wednesday 02:

An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon.


Monday 07:

Downed UFO believed to be found in the Roswell UFO incident.


Saturday 19:

Burmese nationalist Aung San was assassinated.


Sunday 20:

Pope Pius XII canonizes a French saint, Blessed Louis-Marie Gregnon de Montort.


Tuesday 29:

After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a memory upgrade, ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, is reactivated. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.




August 1947


Monday 04:

The Supreme Court of Japan is established.


Thursday 07:

The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).


Thursday 14:

Pakistan gain independence from the United Kingdom


Friday 15:

India gains independence from Britain. Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as the first Prime Minister of India


Saturday 23:

The Maynard Midgets beat Lock Haven 16-7 to win the first-ever Little League World Series championship.




September 1947


Tuesday 09:

"First actual case of (a computer) bug being found": a moth lodges in a relay of a Mark II computer at Harvard University.


Friday 12:

The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath


Monday 15:

RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.


Thursday 18:

1947 - The United States Air Force is created seperate from the United States Army.


Tuesday 30:

Baseball: The World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.




October 1947


Tuesday 14:

Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.


Monday 20:

The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.


Friday 24:

Walt Disney testifies to the House Unamerican Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.


Sunday 26:

The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India


Thursday 30:

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is founded.




November 1947


Sunday 02:

In California, Designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.


Thursday 06:

Meet The Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).


Thursday 20:

The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.


Tuesday 25:

New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.


Saturday 29:

The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arabs and Jews.




December 1947


Wednesday 03:

Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway.


Sunday 14:

NASCAR founded


Friday 26:

26 inches of snowfall in 16 hours in New York City


Saturday 27:

Howdy Doody, a children's television program, makes its debut (NBC).


Tuesday 30:

King Michael of Romania abdicates



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