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 12, 1947 – A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
- February 28, 1947 – 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
- March 17, 1947 – First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
- April 15, 1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.
- July 1, 1947 – The Philippine Air Force is established.
- 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.
- August 14, 1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 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 16, 1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930 killed.
- September 18, 1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency were established in the United States under the National Security Act.
- October 24, 1947 – Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
- November 2, 1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
- November 17, 1947 – The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
- November 29, 1947 – My Trach Massacre: First Indochina War.
- 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 2, 1947 – Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
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