1947 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1947?
- January 22, 1947 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
- February 12, 1947 – A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
- February 21, 1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first “instant camera”, the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
- March 12, 1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
- April 15, 1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.
- May 3, 1947 – New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
- June 24, 1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
- July 8, 1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
- July 19, 1947 – Korean politician Yuh Woon-Hyung is assassinated.
- July 26, 1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
- 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 11, 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.
- August 15, 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan in Karachi.
- October 24, 1947 – Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
- November 6, 1947 – Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
- November 9, 1947 – India forcibly annexes Junagadh from Pakistan.
- November 17, 1947 – The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
- November 25, 1947 – Red Scare: The “Hollywood Ten” are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
- December 6, 1947 – The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
- December 17, 1947 – First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
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