1947 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1947?
- January 3, 1947 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
- January 6, 1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
- January 22, 1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
- 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.
- February 28, 1947 – 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
- March 12, 1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
- March 17, 1947 – First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
- March 25, 1947 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
- April 1, 1947 – Paul becomes king of Greece, on the death of his childless elder brother, George II.
- 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.
- July 6, 1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
- July 10, 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
- 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.
- October 24, 1947 – Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
- 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 22, 1947 – The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy.
- December 25, 1947 – The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect.
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