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 3, 1947 – The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
- February 10, 1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
- February 28, 1947 – 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
- 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.
- April 30, 1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.
- 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.
- June 23, 1947 – The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
- July 5, 1947 – Larry Doby signs a contract with the Cleveland Indians baseball team, becoming the first black player in the American League. (Jackie Robinson had broken the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National League 11 weeks earlier.)
- August 4, 1947 – The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
- September 18, 1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency were established in the United States under the National Security Act.
- October 30, 1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
- November 6, 1947 – Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
- November 17, 1947 – The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
- November 18, 1947 – The Ballantyne’s Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
- November 19, 1947 – George VI of the United Kingdom creates Philip Mountbatten the Duke of Edinburgh in preparation for his wedding to George’s elder daughter, Princess Elizabeth, the next day.
- November 20, 1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
- December 2, 1947 – Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
- December 30, 1947 – King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
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