1947

Years: 1944 1945 1946 - 1947 - 1948 1949 1950
Decades: 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1947 in art 1947 in aviation 1947 in film 1947 in literature 1947 in music 1947 in radio 1947 in science 1947 in sports 1947 in television 1947 state leaders 1947 in Canada

Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 January-March
1.2 April-June
1.3 July
1.4 August-October
1.5 November-December
1.6 Unknown date

2 Year in topic
3 Births

3.7 January
3.8 February
3.9 March-April
3.10 May-November
3.11 December

4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes
6 Heads of state in

Events

January 3 - Proceedings of the United States Congress are televised for the first time.
February 3 - Percival Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House and Senate press gallery.
February 10 - Paris peace treaties signed between the World War II Allies and Italy, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria: Italy cedes most of Istria to Yugoslavia
February 12 - A meteor creates a crater in Sikhote-Alin, Soviet Union
February 17 - Propaganda: The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union.
February 21 - 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 1 - The International Monetary Fund begins to operate.
March 1 - Wernher von Braun marries his first cousin, 18-year-old Maria von Quirstorp.
March 1 - Japanese city Tsushima, Aichi is founded
March 6 - The Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.
March 12 - The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
March 25 - A coalmine explosion in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.

April 9 - The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
April 15 - Jackie Robinson, an African-American, takes the field at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers major-league baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.
April 16 - The Texas City Disaster occurs when a French ship loaded with ammonium nitrate blows up in the harbor of Texas City, Texas. Approximately 600 were killed or missing due to the blast, with 2,000 injured.
April 27 - Babe Ruth Day is celebrated at Yankee Stadium
May 22 - Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, President Harry S. Truman signs an act implementing the Truman Doctrine. The act granted $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.
June 5 - Secretary of State Gen George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for U.S aid to Europe.
June 10 - Saab produces its first automobile.
June 23 - The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.

August 7 - Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day 4,300 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
August 14 - Pakistan gains indepdence from the British Empire. While the transition is officially at midnight on this day, Pakistan celebrates it's indepdence on August 14 compared to India on the 15th.
August 15 - Following decades of nonviolent resistance, India gains independence from the British Empire. Pakistan splits from India.
October 14 - American test pilot, Captain Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
October 20 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 begins

November 2 - In California, Designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built (flight lasted only eight minutes).
November 20- Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey, London.
November 24 - Red Scare:The United States House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt of Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10 after the 10 had refused to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communist influence in the movie industry, (the 10 were blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios the next day).
November 25 - New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
November 29 - The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
December 3 - Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway.
December 30 - King Michael of Romania abdicates

Prussia is legally abolished by the Allied Control Council following World War II and the establishment of the Oder-Neisse line as Germany's eastern border.
The House Un-American Activities Committee begin their investigations of communism in Hollywood.
Cambridge University begins to admits women as full students.
Mikhail Kalashnikov designs the AK-47 assault rifle.
Walter Morrison invents the Frisbee.
Raytheon produces first commercial microwave oven.