1947 in the United States

1947
in
the United States

Decades:
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
See also:

Events from the year 1947 in the United States.

President Truman on opening day of the baseball season, 1947

Incumbents

Federal Government

Events

January–March

  • January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The case remains unsolved to this day.
  • February 3 – Percival Prattis becomes the first African-American news correspondent allowed in the United States House of Representatives and Senate press galleries.
  • February 17 – Cold War: The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
  • February 20
    • An explosion at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Company in Los Angeles, California, leaves 17 dead, 100 buildings damaged, and a 22-foot-deep (6.7 m) crater in the ground.
    • Ordnance Corps Hermes project V-2 rocket Blossom I launched into space carrying plant material and fruitflies, the first animals to enter space.
  • February 21 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", his Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
  • February 28 – The United States grants France a military base in Casablanca.
  • March 6 – The USS Newport News, the first completely air-conditioned warship, is launched in Newport News, Virginia.
  • March 19 – The 19th Academy Awards ceremony is held. The movie Best Years of Our Lives wins the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with several other Academy Awards.
  • March 25 – A coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois, kills 111 miners.

April–June

July–September

October–December

October 14: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X-1
Girls sunbathing at Cabrillo Beach, California, Dec. 28, 1947

Ongoing

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Undated

Deaths

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

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See also

References

  1. "On This Day", The New York Times, retrieved 2016-08-24
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