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- Jul 7 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, Catholic nun (Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,) canonized as 1st American saint
- Jul 8 Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary
- Jul 10 Belgian government of Acker resigns
- Jul 11 Kingman Douglass ends term as deputy director of CIA
Rape of Lucretia
Jul 12 Benjamin Britten's "Rape of Lucretia" premieres at Glyndebourne Opera Festival
- Jul 12 Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park HR
Red Sox 11 Cleveland 10
Jul 14 Cleveland's Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles & HR, but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8 RBIs
Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care
Jul 14 Dr Benjamin Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" published
- Jul 14 Kielce pogrom: Mob of civilians, police and soldiers investigating false kidnapping allegation attack Jewish Holocaust survivors in Kielce, Poland; 42 killed, 40+ injured [1]
- Jul 15 British North Borneo Company transfers its rights to modern day Sabah to the British Crown
- Jul 16 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in San Francisco history)
- Jul 16 US court martial sentences 46 members of the SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau
- Jul 21 Jesus T Pinerol becomes 1st native born Puerto Rican governor
- Jul 22 Militant Zionist organization Irgun bombs the British administrative headquarters for Palestine in southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people of various nationalities injuring 46
Bombing of King David Hotel
Jul 23 Menachem Begin's Zionist militant group Irgun bombs the King David Hotel, the then British administrative headquarters for Palestine
- Jul 24 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League) die in a bus crash
- Jul 24 US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
Martin and Lewis's First Show
Jul 25 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team at 500 Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Jul 25 US detonates an underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands (5th atomic explosion)
- Jul 26 Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport
- Jul 27 Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs
- Jul 30 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico
Atomic Energy Commission Established
Aug 1 US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
1st Coin of African American
Aug 7 1st US commemorative coin of an African American, Booker T. Washington (half dollar)
- Aug 8 Dreyfuss family, owners of MLB Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney and John Galbreath for $25 million
- Aug 8 First flight of the Convair B-36.
- Aug 8 India agrees to give Bhutan 32 sq miles
- Aug 9 1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night
- Aug 13 Britain diverts illegal emmigrants bound for Palestine to Cyprus
- Aug 15 Dumont TV Network (WABD NY) is launched in the US
- Aug 16 Direct Action Day: Widespread riots erupt in Calcutta between Muslims and Hindus over whether Pakistan should be a separate state, killing over 4,000 and leaving 100,000 homeless
Liturgique
Aug 17 Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique" premieres in Zürich, Switzerland with Charles Munch conducting the Suisse Romande Orchestra
Animal Farm
Aug 17 George Orwell publishes "Animal Farm" in the United Kingdom
The Big Sleep
Aug 23 "The Big Sleep" directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart (Philip Marlowe) and Lauren Bacall, premieres
- Aug 23 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
- Aug 23 Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
The Killers
Aug 28 Film noir "The Killers" premieres, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner, based on a story by Ernest Hemingway
Interim Government
Sep 2 Jawaharlal Nehru forms the Interim Government of India
- Sep 5 Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game, in his hometown of St. Louis; 2 RBI's in Cardinals' win over Chicago Cubs
- Sep 6 All-America Football Conference begins regular season play as the Cleveland Browns beat the Miami Seahawks 44-0 before 60,135 at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium
The Winslow Boy
Sep 6 Terence Rattigan's "The Winslow Boy" premieres in London
- Sep 8 Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minors record 456
- Sep 8 Bulgaria ends its monarchy
- Sep 8 San Francisco 49ers play 1st AAFC game, lose to NY Yankees 21-7
- Sep 11 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
- Sep 12 Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels
- Sep 13 Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant
- Sep 15 Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats
- Sep 27 King George II of Greece returns from exile to Athens
- Sep 29 "Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio
- Sep 29 1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards & Dodgers)
- Sep 29 Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine in 10 secs
- Sep 29 Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA
- Sep 29 NPS, Nationale Party Suriname, forms
Nuremberg War Trials
Sep 30 Twenty-two Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials
- Oct 1 12 Nazi war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg
Baseball Record
Oct 1 Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller claims his MLB record 348th strikeout of season in a 4-1 win over Detroit; record stands for 19 years
- Oct 1 St. Louis Cardinals beats Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2 in first MLB play-off game for a league championship (NL); St Louis wins series, 2-0
- Oct 2 1st network soap opera "Faraway Hill" begins broadcasting on DuMont Television Network
- Oct 5 1st Cannes Film Festival ends
- Oct 5 Newcastle United equals English Football League record for biggest winning margin in a 13-0 thrashing of Newport in a Division 2 match at St. James' Park; Len Shackleton scores 6, Charlie Wayman 4 for the Toon
- Oct 6 90°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
- Oct 6 US President Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
String Quartet No. 2
Oct 7 Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet premieres
- Oct 8 Military plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die
The Iceman Cometh
Oct 9 Eugene O'Neill's play "The Iceman Cometh" premieres in NYC
- Oct 9 First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
- Oct 10 Max Frisch's play "Die Chinesische Mauer" (The Chinese Wall) premieres in Zürich
- Oct 11 New York Yankees trade infielder Joe Gordon to Cleveland Indians for pitcher Allie Reynolds
- Oct 14 Netherland & Indonesia sign cease fire
Conference of Interest
Oct 16 10 Nazi leaders are hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg war trials, including Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Alfred Jodl
Copland's 3rd Symphony
Oct 18 Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony first performance, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra led by Serge Koussevitzky
- Oct 20 Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs NY Giants
- Oct 22 2 British ships sink near Albania
- Oct 23 UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC-Flushing Meadows)
- Oct 24 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket, launched from Whites Sands US, takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
- Oct 24 Netherlands & Indonesia sign cease fire
- Oct 27 Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%)
- Oct 28 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
- Nov 1 Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee
- Nov 1 First Basketball Association of America game; New York Knicks beat Toronto Huskies, 68-66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto
- Nov 1 Future pope Karol Wojtyla of Poland is ordained to Catholic priesthood
- Nov 1 West German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) created
- Nov 2 New York City's WABC (AM & FM) radio stations change call letters to WCBS
- Nov 2 New York City's WEAF (AM & FM) radio stations change call letters to WNBC
Event of Interest
Nov 3 Emperor Hirohito proclaims a new Japanese constitution
- Nov 4 United Nations Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) formed
JFK Elected
Nov 5 John F. Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) elected to US House of Representatives
Wojtyla's First Mass
Nov 6 Karol Wojtyla (future Pope John Paul II) holds his first Mass as newly ordained Catholic priest in Wawel Cathedral's crypt
La Putain Respecteuse
Nov 8 Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse" premieres in Paris
- Nov 9 US President Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze
- Nov 10 Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election
- Nov 11 New York Knicks play their first Basketball Association of American (BAA) home game at Madison Square Garden; lose, 78-68 to Chicago Stags in overtime
- Nov 12 A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows
- Nov 12 Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
- Nov 13 First artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, Massachusetts
- Nov 14 Dutch Dakota flight to Schiphol crashes, kills 11
- Nov 15 House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley
- Nov 15 Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP
Another Part of the Forest
Nov 20 Lillian Hellman's play "Another Part of the Forest" premieres in NYC
The Best Years of Our Lives
Nov 21 "The Best Years of Our Lives", film directed by William Wyler, based on MacKinlay Kantor's novella Glory for Me, starring Myrna Loy and Fredric March, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1947)
Fraser Re-elected
Nov 27 Peter Fraser's Labour government wins a second term in New Zealand's general elections
- Nov 28 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert sentenced to death
- Nov 28 French Fourth Republic government led by Georges Bidault resigns
- Nov 29 Dutch Minister of Social Affairs Willem Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities
- Nov 30 Bradman scores 187 on first day of the Ashes 1st Test Australia v England at the Gabba, Brisbane
- Dec 3 12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB)
US Wants Franco Out
Dec 3 US government asks UN to order dictator Francisco Franco out of Spain
- Dec 5 US President Harry Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
- Dec 7 Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
- Dec 8 US Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
Hesse Nobel Literature Prize
Dec 10 German/Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style"
Williams Records with Sterling
Dec 11 Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label
- Dec 11 Spain suspended from UN
- Dec 11 United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established by resolution 57(I) of the UN General Assembly
- Dec 12 'Tide' laundry detergent introduced
- Dec 12 Abandoned ice plant in Manahttan, New York City, collapses during a fire, shearing a tenement building next door, killing 38
Rockefeller's Gift
Dec 12 The United Nations accepts six Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- Dec 14 General Assembly of United Nations votes to construct headquarters in New York City [1]
- Dec 14 Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN
- Dec 15 Giants Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt
- Dec 16 1947 NFL Draft: Bob Fenimore from University of Oklahoma A&M first pick by Chicago Bears
Christian Dior Founded
Dec 16 French fashion designer Christian Dior and his backer Marcel Boussac found fashion house Christian Dior
- Dec 16 Thailand joins the United Nations
- Dec 17 Bradman & Barnes complete record 405 run 5th wicket stand, score 234 each in 2nd Cricket Test Australia vs. England in Sydney
- Dec 17 US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico
- Dec 18 TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run in US
"Pacific 1860"
Dec 19 Noël Coward's musical "Pacific 1860" premieres in London
Ho Chi Minh Attacks French
Dec 19 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
"It's a Wonderful Life"
Dec 20 Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life" film, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore premieres in New York
Milhaud's 2nd Symphony
Dec 20 Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres with the Boston Symphony conducted by the composer; the work was commissioned as a memorial to the wife of group's music director Serge Koussevitzky
- Dec 21 Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086
"Minstrel Show"
Dec 21 Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show" premieres in Indianapolis
- Dec 23 Belgian Council of State forms
- Dec 23 Highest daily ridership in NYC subway history - 8.8 million fares
- Dec 23 University of Tennessee refuses to play Duquesne University after they suggested they may use a black player in their basketball game
- Dec 24 French Fourth Republic is founded
- Dec 24 US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor Nazis" amnesty
- Dec 25 Constitution accepted in Taiwan
- Dec 26 Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
- Dec 31 French troops leave Lebanon
- Dec 31 US President Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
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