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 12, 1947 – A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
- April 6, 1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
- April 9, 1947 – The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
- April 15, 1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.
- April 16, 1947 – Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
- 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.
- 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 4, 1947 – The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
- August 15, 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan in Karachi.
- 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 18, 1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency were established in the United States under the National Security Act.
- September 30, 1947 – The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
- October 1, 1947 – The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
- October 5, 1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
- October 30, 1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
- 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 25, 1947 – The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
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