1947 Calendar

January 22, 1947 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.

July 1, 1947 – The Philippine Air Force is established.

July 11, 1947 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.

August 11, 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.

September 15, 1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.

September 18, 1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.

October 14, 1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.

October 30, 1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.

December 2, 1947 – Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.

December 23, 1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

January 27, 1947 – Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer (d. 1999)

January 29, 1947 – Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate

February 14, 1947 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1975)

June 17, 1947 – Linda Chavez, American author

June 24, 1947 – Mick Fleetwood, English drummer (Fleetwood Mac)

July 22, 1947 – Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and drummer (Eagles)

July 23, 1947 – Torsten Palm, Swedish racing driver

October 25, 1947 – Glenn Tipton, English guitarist (Judas Priest)

October 29, 1947 – Helen Coonan, Australian politician

November 23, 1947 – Jean-Pierre Foucault, French television host