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1947 Calendar

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•  January 6, 1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
•  January 15, 1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (“The Black Dahlia”) is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
•  January 22, 1947 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
•  April 1, 1947 – Paul becomes king of Greece, on the death of his childless elder brother, George II.
•  April 15, 1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.
•  July 11, 1947 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
•  October 20, 1947 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
•  November 13, 1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
•  November 29, 1947 – The Partition Plan: the United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Israel.
•  December 30, 1947 – King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.

•  February 4, 1947 – Dennis C. Blair, American admiral and Director of National Intelligence
•  March 4, 1947 – David Franzoni, American screenwriter
•  March 12, 1947 – Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (d. 1987)
•  April 12, 1947 – David Letterman, American talk show host
•  May 4, 1947 – Richard Jenkins, American actor
•  June 20, 1947 – Ivo Milazzo, Italian comic book artist
•  September 20, 1947 – Chris Ortloff, former New York state Republican politician and admitted pedophile
•  December 2, 1947 – Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist
•  December 19, 1947 – Jimmy Bain, Scottish musician
•  December 22, 1947 – Brian Daley, American science-fiction writer (d. 1996)