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1947 Calendar

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•  January 1, 1947 – The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
•  January 22, 1947 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
•  April 16, 1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term “Cold War” to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
•  June 14, 1947 – Roswell UFO incident A supposed UFO crash lands in Roswell, New Mexico
•  September 15, 1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
•  September 18, 1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency were established in the United States under the National Security Act.
•  November 25, 1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
•  December 6, 1947 – The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
•  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 13, 1947 – Carles Rexach, former Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach
•  February 15, 1947 – Rusty Hamer, American actor (d. 1990)
•  February 24, 1947 – Edward James Olmos, American actor
•  April 17, 1947 – Tsutomu Wakamatsu, Japanese baseball player
•  April 30, 1947 – Tom Køhlert, Danish footballer
•  July 19, 1947 – Bernie Leadon, The Eagles guitarist
•  September 21, 1947 – Stephen King, American author
•  November 22, 1947 – Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
•  December 5, 1947 – Jim Plunkett, American football player
•  December 29, 1947 – Cozy Powell, English rock drummer (d. 1998)