1947 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1947?
- January 3, 1947 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
- January 22, 1947 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
- February 10, 1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
- 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 25, 1947 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
- 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.
- April 28, 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
- June 10, 1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
- June 25, 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
- 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 15, 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan in Karachi.
- September 15, 1947 – RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
- 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.
- 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 20, 1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
- December 30, 1947 – King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
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