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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
– Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
– Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
– The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
– Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
– The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
– The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
– Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
– Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
– The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
Who Were Born On ?
– Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1975)
– Greg Guma, American progressive journalist and author
– Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist
– Aad de Mos, Dutch football coach
– Emmylou Harris, American singer
– Robert Kiyosaki, American investor
– Ann Beattie, American writer
– Jon “Bowzer” Bauman, American singer (Sha Na Na)
– Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
– Rodney Bingenheimer, American radio personality