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- Jul 23 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island
National Security Act
Jul 26 US President Truman signs National Security Act (1947), establishing Department of Defense, CIA, National Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff
Yogi Berra Begins Streak
Jul 27 New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra starts a record 148 game errorless streak
- Jul 28 Iuliu Maniu's Farmers' Party is banned in Romania
- Jul 29 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg, Virginia
- Jul 30 Cincinnati Reds' pitcher Ewell Blackwell record-breaking 16 game winning streak ends, losing to NY Giants 5-4
- Aug 2 Greek-American soprano makes her Italian debut in the title role of Amilcare Ponchielli's "La Gioconda" at the Verona Arena
- Aug 4 American boxer Ike Williams knocks out Bob Montgomery in 6 rounds in Philadelphia to unify the world lightweight title
- Aug 4 The Supreme Court of Japan is established
- Aug 5 Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to UN pressure
- Aug 6 1st performance of Hector Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8"
- Aug 7 The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST)
Kon-Tiki Strikes French Polynesia
Aug 7 Thor Heyerdahl and the crew of the Kon-Tiki crash into a reef in the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia after 101 days crossing the Pacific Ocean
- Aug 8 Pakistan's National Flag is approved.
Didrikson Zaharias Goes Pro
Aug 14 Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000
- Aug 14 Pakistan gains independence from Great Britain
- Aug 15 GLEEP (Graphite Low Energy Experimental Pile), the first experimental nuclear reactor in Western Europe begins operation in Oxford, England
- Aug 15 India gains independence from Great Britain, remains a dominion until 1950
Pirates 12 Cardinals 7
Aug 16 Future Baseball HOF outfielder Ralph Kiner hits 3 successive HRs for host Pittsburgh Pirates in a 12-7 win over St. Louis Cardinals; both clubs smash a then MLB record 10 homers
- Aug 17 The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed
- Aug 18 Naval torpedo & mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300
- Aug 19 J Arens & D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A
- Aug 20 Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
- Aug 20 Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
- Aug 22 14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chicago Bears 0 (105,840)
- Aug 23 US President Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert
- Aug 25 Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speed record of 1,047 kph
- Aug 26 Dodgers' Dan Bankhead, MLB's 1st African-American pitcher, homers in his 1st MLB at bat in 16-3 loss to Pittsburgh, at Ebbetts Field, Brooklyn, NYC
Ambedkar Heads Constitution Committee
Aug 29 B.R. Ambedkar is appointed chairman of the drafting committee for the Indian constitution
- Aug 29 Constantine Tsaldaris succeeds Maximos as Greek premier
- Aug 31 Hungarian communist party wins election
- Aug 31 NY Giants set season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
- Sep 1 Infielder Jack Lohrke hits NY Giants' 183rd homer of season in 2-1 win v Boston Braves; breaks NY Yankees MLB mark of 182 set in 1936
- Sep 1 With a victory by Armed in the Washington Park Handicap, Calumet Farm becomes the first stable to surpass $1 million in annual earnings; leads all owners with total earnings of $1,402,436
- Sep 3 New York Yankees total 18 hits, all singles to rout Boston Red Sox, 11-2 at Fenway Park
- Sep 3 Philadelphia A's rookie pitcher Bill McCahan no-hits Washington Senators, 3-0
- Sep 4 Champion Middlesex cricket batsman Denis Compton scores 101 for South of England in tour match defeat to South Africa at Lord's; his record 17th century of the English season
- Sep 7 Battles between Hindus & Muslims in New Delhi, India
- Sep 12 Pittsburgh's future Baseball HOF left fielder Ralph Kiner hits 2 HRs in Pirates' 4-3 win over the Boston Braves at Forbes Field; record 8th HR in 4 games
Call it Stormy Monday..
Sep 13 T-Bone Walker records his biggest hit "Call it Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" in Hollywood, California
- Sep 13 WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Sep 15 First four-engined jet-propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Ohio
- Sep 15 RCA releases the 12AX7 miniature dual triode vacuum tube; it is still in production
- Sep 15 Typhoon Kathleen hit Tone River, Saitama and Tokyo area, killing at least 1,930 and injuring 1,750
- Sep 15 Yanks clinch pennant #15
- Sep 16 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH
- Sep 16 Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, killing at least 1,930
Jackie Robinson
Sep 17 Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of Year by Sporting News
- Sep 17 James Forrestal sworn in as 1st US Secretary of Defense
- Sep 18 The Central Intelligence Agency officially comes into existence after being established by President Truman in July
- Sep 18 US Air Force created as a separate military service by passing of the National Security Act
- Sep 18 US Department of Defense 1st day of operation
- Sep 19 Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of the Year"
- Sep 22 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch NL pennant as Chicago defeats St. Louis Cardinals in second game of a double header
2nd Cannes Film Festival
Sep 25 2nd Cannes Film Festival ends with six different awards presented including Best Musical for Vincente Minnelli's" Ziegfeld Follies" and Walt Disney's "Dumbo" Best Animation
- Sep 29 Dizzy Gillespie presents his 1st Carnegie Hall concert, NYC
Joe McCarthy Joins Red Sox
Sep 29 Former New York Yankees manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Boston Red Sox
- Oct 1 1st helicopter air mail & express service, LA, Ca
- Oct 1 The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
- Oct 1 US control of Haitian customs & governmental revenue ends
- Oct 1 William Wister Haines' "Command Decision" premieres in NYC
- Oct 2 New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra hits the first pinch-hit home run in Baseball World Series history off Ralph Branca in the 7th inning of a 9-8 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 3
- Oct 2 Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
- Oct 3 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed
- Oct 3 WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington, D.C. (ABC) begins
- Oct 5 Harry Truman makes the 1st Presidential address televised from the White House
- Oct 9 First telephone conversation between occupants of a moving car and an airplane
- Oct 9 Julie Styne and Sammy Cahn's musical "High Button Shoes" premieres at the New Century Theatre, NYC (later transferred to the Shubert, then to The Broadway Theatre, NYC; runs for 727 performances
- Oct 11 Brazil & Chile break diplomatic relations with USSR
- Oct 13 Children's puppet TV program "Junior Jamboree", later renamed "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres locally on WBKB in Chicago, Illinois
1st Supersonic Flight
Oct 14 Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)
Eisenhower Honored
Oct 14 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower
- Oct 21 Dutch Dakota explodes near Copenhagen, 16 die
- Oct 23 Husband & wife Carl Cori & Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen" (alongside Bernardo Alberto Houssay)
- Oct 23 NAACP petition on racism "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN
- Oct 24 Series of forest fires burn over $30 million of timber across the New England States
- Oct 25 Bradman scores 156 for South Australia v India, 152 mins, 22 fours
- Oct 25 Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan & Fred Saigh for $4M
- Oct 26 Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India
- Oct 26 The British military occupation ends in Iraq
You Bet Your Life
Oct 27 "You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio
Hymnus Ambrosianus
Oct 30 Darius Milhaud's 3rd Symphony "Hymnus Ambrosianus" premieres in Paris
- Nov 1 First Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii
- Nov 1 UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ & UK
- Nov 2 After just 6 games of the season, Chicago Blackhawks trade NHL scoring leader Max Bentley along with Cy Thomas to Toronto Maple Leafs for Gus Bodnar, Bud Poile, Gaye Stewart, Bob Goldham, and Ernie Dickens
Spruce Goose
Nov 2 Howard Hughes flies "Spruce Goose", a huge wooden airplane for the first and last time
- Nov 6 NBC's "Meet the Press" debuts - US's longest running TV show
Gentlemen's Agreement
Nov 11 "Gentlemen's Agreement" directed by Elia Karan and starring Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire premieres in New York (Best Picture 1948)
- Nov 12 KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
- Nov 12 Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced
- Nov 15 Bradman scores his 100th 100, 172 v Indians at the SCG
- Nov 15 Soccer team GVVV forms in Veenendaal
- Nov 16 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of Nazis
- Nov 17 The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
- Nov 19 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar Observatory, California
- Nov 20 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey)
- Nov 20 UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
- Nov 23 French government of Schumann forms
Baugh's Six Touchdowns
Nov 23 Washington Redskins quarterback Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Chicago Cardinals (45-21)
The Pearl
Nov 24 John Steinbeck's novella "The Pearl" published
- Nov 24 The US House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists
- Nov 25 New Zealand accedes to Statute of Westminster, becomes a dominion
- Nov 25 The 1st systematic Hollywood blacklist is instituted, denying employment to American entertainment professionals due to alleged Communist ties or sympathies
DiMaggio's Third MVP
Nov 27 Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
- Nov 29 Anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo erupt after UN votes to partition Palestine, with cost of 75 lives and the disappearance of medieval manuscript the Aleppo Codex
- Nov 29 UN General Assembly vote to allow the partition of Palestine between Arabs & Jews
- Nov 30 Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
- Dec 1 In first cricket Test match between the 2 nations, India is dismissed for 58 by Australia in Brisbane; fast bowler Ernie Toshack takes 5 for 2 off 2.3 overs; Don Bradman scores 185 as Australia wins by an innings & 226 runs
- Dec 2 13th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Lujack, Notre Dame (QB)
- Dec 2 In rain affected 1st Test in Brisbane, Australia compiles 1st innings total 645 on Day 3 v India (Bradman 187, Hassett 128); Australia wins by an innings and 332
A Streetcar Named Desire
Dec 3 Tennessee Williams' stage drama "A Streetcar Named Desire", starring Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, and Kin Hunter, and directed by Elia Kazan opens the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC; runs for 855 performances, wins a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize
First Test India vs. Australia
Dec 4 In the first cricket Test match between the 2 nations, India is dismissed for 98 by Australia in Brisbane to lose by an innings & 226 runs; fast bowler Ernie Toshack takes 6 for 29 for match figures of 11 for 31
- Dec 4 USSR joins International Amateur Athletic Union
Louis vs. Walcott
Dec 5 Joe Louis beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for heavyweight boxing title, at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- Dec 6 The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated by President Harry S. Truman
- Dec 9 Menahem Presser (19) makes his Carnegie Hall debut as soloist in Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, under Eugene Ormandy's direction (NYC)
Nobel for Work on Nerve Function
Dec 10 American physiologists Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Gasser presented with Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm (awarded 1944), for research into nerve function
- Dec 10 USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
- Dec 11 Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected
- Dec 12 United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL
- Dec 13 Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
- Dec 14 The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida
Holograpy Patent
Dec 17 British industrial company BTH receives a patent for holography, invented by Dennis Gabor in their development lab
- Dec 17 NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow
- Dec 17 WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, Ohio (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Dec 18 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Optissima Pax
- Dec 19 1948 NFL Draft: Harry Gilmer from University of Alabama first pick by Washington Redskins
- Dec 22 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
Transistor Invented
Dec 23 Transistor invented by John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley is first publicly demonstrated at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey
- Dec 25 Constitution of the Republic of China comes into effect
- Dec 25 Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
- Dec 26 British transfer Heard & McDonald Islands (Indian Ocean) to Australia
- Dec 26 Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries NYC under 25.8" of snow in 16 hrs That same day, LA set a record high of 84°F
- Dec 27 1st "Howdy Doody Show" (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC
- Dec 29 Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine
- Dec 30 King Michael of Romania, forced by Communists abdicates his throne, sending him into exlie
- Dec 30 Romanian republic proclaimed
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