1947 Calendar
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1947 Historical Event(s)
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
– KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
February 21, 1947
– In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first “instant camera”, the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
April 28, 1947
– Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
July 10, 1947
– Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
August 7, 1947
– The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
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.
November 6, 1947
– Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
Who Were Born On 1947?
January 16, 1947
– Harvey Proctor, British politician
February 24, 1947
– Edward James Olmos, American actor
March 2, 1947
– Harry Redknapp, English football manager
March 31, 1947
– Kristian Blak, Danish musician and recording executive
April 16, 1947
– Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician and songwriter (d. 2011)
August 20, 1947
– Alan Lee, English conceptual artist
August 22, 1947
– Donna Godchaux, American singer (Grateful Dead)
August 27, 1947
– Barbara Bach, American actress
October 1, 1947
– Buzz Capra, American baseball player
November 24, 1947
– Dwight Schultz, American actor