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1947 Calendar

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•  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 10, 1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
•  April 16, 1947 – Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
•  June 25, 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
•  September 15, 1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
•  October 30, 1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
•  November 17, 1947 – The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
•  December 16, 1947 – William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
•  December 23, 1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

•  January 19, 1947 – Ann Compton, American news reporter
•  March 8, 1947 – Mike Allsup, American musician (Three Dog Night)
•  April 12, 1947 – David Letterman, American talk show host
•  July 1, 1947 – Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese racing driver
•  July 24, 1947 – Peter Serkin, American pianist
•  October 13, 1947 – Alan Wakeman, English saxophonist (Soft Machine)
•  October 22, 1947 – Apostolos Kontos, Greek basketball player
•  October 31, 1947 – Deidre Hall, American actress
•  November 20, 1947 – Joe Walsh, American musician (Eagles, James Gang)
•  December 26, 1947 – James T. Conway, 34th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps