1947 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1947?
- January 15, 1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (“The Black Dahlia”) is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
- January 22, 1947 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
- January 24, 1947 – Greek banker Dimitrios Maximos becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
- 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.
- April 9, 1947 – The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court’s 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
- June 10, 1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
- July 11, 1947 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
- August 15, 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan in Karachi.
- October 5, 1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
- October 20, 1947 – United States of America and Pakistan establish diplomatic relations for the first time.
- October 24, 1947 – Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
- October 26, 1947 – The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
- 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 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th Century.
- 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 22, 1947 – The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy.
- December 23, 1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
- December 30, 1947 – King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
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