1947 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1947?
- January 9, 1947 – Elizabeth “Betty” Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
- January 22, 1947 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
- February 3, 1947 – The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
- February 10, 1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
- March 12, 1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
- May 3, 1947 – New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
- June 5, 1947 – Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
- July 19, 1947 – The Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated by Galon U Saw.
- August 7, 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl’s balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000 km journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
- August 17, 1947 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
- September 9, 1947 – First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
- September 15, 1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
- October 14, 1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
- October 20, 1947 – 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.
- October 30, 1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
- November 17, 1947 – The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
- November 29, 1947 – My Trach Massacre: First Indochina War.
- November 30, 1947 – 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins on this day, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.
- December 6, 1947 – The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
- December 16, 1947 – William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
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