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1947 Calendar

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•  January 22, 1947 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
•  April 9, 1947 – The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
•  June 23, 1947 – The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
•  June 25, 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
•  July 10, 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
•  August 15, 1947 – India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
•  September 30, 1947 – The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
•  October 26, 1947 – The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
•  December 2, 1947 – Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
•  December 16, 1947 – William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

•  January 19, 1947 – Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur
•  January 20, 1947 – Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and directeur sportif
•  March 18, 1947 – Patrick Chesnais, French actor
•  July 3, 1947 – Anthony “Top” Topham, English musician
•  July 18, 1947 – Steven W. Mahoney, Canadian politician
•  September 15, 1947 – Theodore Long, American professional wrestling manager
•  September 20, 1947 – Steve Gerber, American comics writer (d. 2008)
•  November 7, 1947 – Holmes Osborne, American actor
•  December 13, 1947 – Rex Hagon, Canadian actor and host
•  December 16, 1947 – Ben Cross, English actor