1947

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 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 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 15 - In the United States, 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 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.
   * July 18 - President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession
     Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate
     President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United
     States Vice President.
   * July 26 - Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National
     Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence
     Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National
     Security Council.
   * July 29 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a refurbishment,
     ENIAC, one of the world's first digital computers, is turned on after a
     memory upgrade. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2,
     1955.
   * 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 15 - India obtains independence from the British rule. 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.
   * 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

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1947 in film
        o Gentleman's Agreement
        o Miracle on 34th Street
   * 1947 in television
   * January 22 - The first commercial television station west of the
     Mississippi River, KTLA, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
        o January 30 - The FCC rejects CBS' color television system.
        o May 7 - Kraft Television Theater premieres on NBC, the first
          regularly scheduled drama series on a network.
        o September 30 - The opening game of the World Series is the first
          World Series game to be telecast. The 1947 World Series brought in
          an estimated 3.9 million people, becoming television's first mass
          audience.
        o October 5 - The first presidential address is telecast from the
          White House. President Truman speaks about the world food crisis.
        o November 6 - Meet the Press first appears as a local program in
          Washington.
        o November 20 - Meet the Press first network telecast.
        o December 27 - Puppet Television Theater (later called Howdy
          Doody), a children's television program, makes its debut (NBC).
        o The first Hollywood film production for TV, The Public Prosecutor.
        o There are 14,000 television sets in use in the United States.

Births

   * January 8 - David Bowie - Pop star
   * January 11 - Bryan Robson, football player
   * January 16 - Dr. Laura Schlessinger, physiologist, radio talk show host
   * January 18 - Takeshi Kitano - Director and actor
   * January 24 - Warren Zevon, musician (+ 2003)
   * January 30 - Steve Marriott, musician ("The Small Faces") (+ 1991)
   * January 31 - Nolan Ryan, Baseball Hall of Famer
   * February 1 - Jessica Savitch, journalist (+ 1983)
   * February 2 - Farrah Fawcett, actress
   * February 2 - Melanie, singer
   * February 3 - Paul Auster, novelist
   * February 4 - Dan Quayle, Vice President of the United States
   * February 5 - Darrell Waltrip, automobile racer, broadcaster
   * February 10 - Louise Arbour, jurist
   * February 18 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands
   * February 18 - Dennis DeYoung, musician ("Styx")
   * February 20 - Peter Osgood, English football player
   * February 20 - Peter Strauss, actor
   * February 24 - Edward James Olmos, actor
   * March 6 - Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer
   * March 6 - Dick Fosbury, athlete
   * March 6 - Kiki Dee, singer
   * March 7 - Walter Ršhrl, car racer
   * March 8 - Carole Bayer Sager, composer
   * March 10 - Kim Campbell, first female Prime Minister of Canada (1993)
   * March 12 - Kalervo Palsa, Finland artist
   * March 14 - Billy Crystal, actor, comedian
   * March 15 - Ry Cooder, guitarist
   * March 19 - Glenn Close, actress
   * March 25 - Elton John - Pop star
   * April 2 - Camille Paglia, feminist writer
   * April 2 - Emmylou Harris, singer
   * April 12 - David Letterman - US entertainer
   * April 12 - Tom Clancy, author
   * April 16 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Basketball Hall of Famer
   * April 18 - Kathy Acker, author
   * April 26 - Donna DeVarona, Olympic gold medalist in swimming, sports
     journalist, sports activist
   * May 6 - Martha Nussbaum, philosopher
   * June 4 - Viktor Klima, former Austrian Chancellor
   * June 19 - Salman Rushdie, author
   * June 22 - Pete Maravich, Basketball Hall of Famer (+ 1988)
   * July 2 - Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld
   * July 20 - Carlos Santana, rock star
   * July 30 - Arnold Schwarzenegger. Actor, former bodybuilder,
     governor-elect of California
   * September 3 - Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway
   * September 17 - Tessa Jowell, British politician
   * September 30 - Marc Bolan, musician ("T Rex") (+ 1977)
   * October 19 - Giorgio Cavazzano, comics artist and illustrator
   * November 14 - P. J. O'Rourke, journalist and satirist
   * December 9 - U.S. Senator Tom Daschle
   * December 27 - Steven Spielberg, American film director

Deaths

   * Tristan Bernard - French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer
   * Aleister Crowley - British occultist
   * January 25 - Al Capone, gangster
   * March 11 - Victor Lustig, great con artist
   * March 18 - William Durant, automobile pioneer, founder of General
     Motors
   * March 30 - Arthur Machen, author
   * April 1 - King George II of Greece
   * April 7 - Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer and industrialist
   * May 17 - George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand
   * November 25 - LŽon-Paul Fargue, poet
   * December 17 - J. N. Bronsted, physical chemist.

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Sir Edward Victor Appleton
   * Chemistry - Sir Robert Robinson
   * Medicine - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Theresa, nŽe Radnitz Cori,
     Bernardo Alberto Houssay
   * Literature - AndrŽ Paul Guillaume Gide
   * Peace - The Friends Service Council (UK) and The American Friends
     Service Committee (USA), on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends,
     better known as the Quakers.

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