Notable Historical Events - 1947
1947 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Benelux agress to work related issues |
Jan 1 |
Britain nationalizes its coal industry |
Jan 1 |
WTTG TV channel 5 in Washington, DC (MET) begins broadcasting |
Jan 2 |
Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali |
Jan 3 |
1st opening session of Congress to be televised |
Jan 3 |
William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee |
Jan 4 |
"Park Avenue" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 72 performances |
Jan 4 |
"Show Boat" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 417 performances |
Jan 4 |
Emilio G. Segrè and Carlo Perrier announce technetium, a previously unknown element and the first artificially synthesized chemical element |
Jan 6 |
Ray Lindwall smashes 100 v England in MCG Test |
Jan 7 |
Aust v Eng at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Aust since 1882 |
Jan 8 |
Gen George Marshall becomes US Secretary of State |
Jan 8 |
Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game |
Jan 9 |
"Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 148 performances |
Jan 9 |
Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF |
Jan 9 |
Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the black dahlia, is last seen alive. |
Jan 10 |
"Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 725 performances |
Jan 10 |
British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel |
Jan 10 |
Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard |
Jan 15 |
The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. |
Jan 16 |
Vincent Aurial elected president of France |
Jan 17 |
Muiden Neth ammunition factory explodes, 16 die |
Jan 18 |
"Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 831 performances |
Jan 18 |
Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000) |
Jan 18 |
Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400 |
Jan 19 |
SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392 |
Jan 20 |
Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA |
Jan 21 |
"Sweethearts" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 288 performances |
Jan 21 |
Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel |
Jan 22 |
1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA |
Jan 22 |
KTLA TV channel 5 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jan 24 |
NFL adds 5th official (back judge) & allows sudden death in playoffs |
Jan 26 |
KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die |
Jan 28 |
"Bay Psalm" book auctioned for a record $151,000 |
Jan 29 |
Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," premieres in NYC |
Feb 1 |
Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems & communists |
Feb 1 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad |
Feb 1 |
NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established |
Feb 3 |
-81°F (-63°C), Snag Yukon (North American record) |
Feb 3 |
1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis) |
Feb 3 |
Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket |
Feb 5 |
Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland |
Feb 6 |
Compton & Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket |
Feb 7 |
Arabs & Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine |
Feb 8 |
Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51) |
Feb 8 |
KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Feb 9 |
Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia |
Feb 10 |
Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia |
Feb 10 |
Netherlands Radio Union forms |
Feb 10 |
Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland |
Feb 10 |
WW II peace treaties signed |
Feb 12 |
Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia |
Feb 12 |
Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands |
Feb 15 |
"Toplitzky of Notre Dame" closes at Century Theater NYC after 60 perfs |
Feb 16 |
Morton Gould's 3rd Symphony, premieres |
Feb 17 |
Dutch RC bishops publish manifest against "godless communism" |
Feb 17 |
Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR |
Feb 18 |
24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin Pa |
Feb 18 |
Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone," premieres in NYC |
Feb 19 |
CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3" |
Feb 20 |
Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in LA |
Feb 20 |
Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as last viceroy of India |
Feb 20 |
State of Prussia ceases to exist. |
Feb 21 |
1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember" |
Feb 21 |
1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land |
Feb 21 |
Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champ |
Feb 23 |
Gen Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews |
Feb 27 |
Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized |
Feb 28 |
Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan |
Feb 28 |
228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives. |
Mar 1 |
International Monetary Fund begins operation |
Mar 4 |
WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Mar 6 |
XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, CA |
Mar 7 |
The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War. |
Mar 9 |
US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
Mar 9 |
US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
Mar 12 |
"Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances |
Mar 12 |
Belgian government of Huysmans resigns |
Mar 12 |
Pres Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism |
Mar 13 |
"Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances |
Mar 13 |
19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives", De Havilland, March win |
Mar 15 |
John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy |
Mar 16 |
Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested |
Mar 19 |
Belgian government of Spaak forms |
Mar 19 |
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jenan |
Mar 20 |
180 tonne blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic |
Mar 21 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur |
Mar 21 |
Pres Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States |
Mar 21 |
Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, NZ v England at Christchurch |
Mar 22 |
President Harry Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty |
Mar 24 |
Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency |
Mar 24 |
John D. Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN |
Mar 25 |
9th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Holy Cross beats Oklahoma 58-47 |
Mar 25 |
Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia |
Mar 25 |
Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill, claims 111 |
Mar 25 |
Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v NZ, Christchurch) |
Mar 29 |
"Beggar's Holiday" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 111 perfs |
Apr 1 |
1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat |
Apr 2 |
Carlo Terron's "Il diamente del profeta" premieres in Rome |
Apr 3 |
"Barefoot Boy with Cheek" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 108 perfs |
Apr 4 |
Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect |
Apr 4 |
Largest group of sunspots on record |
Apr 4 |
UN's International Civil Aviation Organization forms |
Apr 6 |
11th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 281 |
Apr 6 |
1st Tony Awards: Arthur Miller, David Wayne & Patricia Neal win for theatrical achievements |
Apr 8 |
Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed |
Apr 9 |
Atomic Energy Commission confirmed |
Apr 9 |
Baseball suspends Bkln Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year |
Apr 9 |
Tornadoes striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300 |
Apr 10 |
King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned |
Apr 15 |
Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major league baseball (Dodgers) |
Apr 15 |
Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio |
Apr 16 |
-17] Explosions & fire on French ship Grandcamp |
Apr 16 |
Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (NYC) |
Apr 16 |
Massive explosion & fire kills 522 in Texas City, Tx |
Apr 17 |
Jackie Robinson bunts for his 1st major league hit |
Apr 19 |
51st Boston Marathon won by Yun Bok Soh of Korea in 2:25:39 |
Apr 19 |
AAU record for a 25-foot rope climb is set in 4.7 seconds |
Apr 19 |
French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522 |
Apr 19 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2 |
Apr 19 |
Suh Yun Buck wins world record marathon (2:25:39) |
Apr 19 |
After scoring 45 goals during the regular season, Maurice Richard is named MVP. |
Apr 20 |
Frederik IX becomes king of Denmark |
Apr 22 |
1st NBA Championship: Phila Warriors beat Chicago Stags, 4 games to 2 |
Apr 25 |
Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St Louis, to become wrestling champ |
Apr 25 |
Trial against WW II mayor of Amsterdam Edward Voete begins |
Apr 26 |
"Bless the Bride" musical opens in London |
Apr 27 |
Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through out US |
Apr 28 |
Thor Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia |
Apr 30 |
Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover |
May 1 |
Cleve Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad |
May 1 |
Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA |
May 1 |
Radar for commercial & private planes 1st demonstrated |
May 1 |
Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA |
May 2 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Moon for the Misbegotten" premieres in NYC |
May 3 |
73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8 |
May 3 |
New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect. |
May 5 |
Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850M in damage |
May 5 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) |
May 7 |
"Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC |
May 7 |
General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution |
May 7 |
Paraguayian government unleashes contra revolt |
May 8 |
A movement among Card players to protest its 1st meeting with Jackie Robinson & the Dodgers is aborted by a talk from owner Sam Breadon |
May 10 |
"Chocolate Soldier" closes at Century Theater NYC after 69 perfs |
May 10 |
73rd Preakness: Doug Dodson aboard Faultless wins in 1:59 |
May 11 |
BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron Ohio) |
May 11 |
Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy |
May 13 |
US Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions |
May 16 |
Billie Holiday is arrested in her New York apartment for possession of narcotics |
May 17 |
"Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances |
May 18 |
A's catcher Warren Rosar catches his 147th game without an error |
May 22 |
"Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece |
May 22 |
1st US ballistic missile fired |
May 23 |
PC Hooft prize forms for literature |
May 25 |
Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111 |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Mauri Rose wins in 4:17:52.159 (187.228 km/h) |
May 31 |
79th Belmont: Ruperto Donoso aboard Phalanx wins in 2:29.6 |
May 31 |
Communists grab power in Hungary |
May 31 |
Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53 |
May 31 |
Italian government of Gasperi forms |
Jun 1 |
OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands |
Jun 1 |
Photosensitive glass developed |
Jun 2 |
"Louisiana Lady" opens at Century Theater NYC for 4 performances |
Jun 2 |
Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns |
Jun 3 |
British Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan |
Jun 4 |
"Louisiana Lady" closes at Century Theater NYC after 4 performances |
Jun 4 |
US House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley act |
Jun 5 |
Sec of State George Marshall outlines "Marshall Plan" |
Jun 6 |
Treaty drawn for establishment of Intl Patent Institute |
Jun 10 |
Saab produces its first automobile. |
Jun 11 |
WW II sugar rationing finally endd in US (began May 28, 1942) |
Jun 12 |
Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Brit Women's Amateur Golf Champ |
Jun 13 |
1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3) |
Jun 15 |
1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1) |
Jun 15 |
47th US Golf Open: Lew Worsham shoots a 282 at St Louis CC in MO |
Jun 16 |
1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington" |
Jun 16 |
Pravda denounces Marshall Plan |
Jun 17 |
1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC |
Jun 17 |
Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin |
Jun 17 |
Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline |
Jun 18 |
Cincinnati Red Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0 |
Jun 19 |
1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca |
Jun 20 |
Pres Harry Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act |
Jun 22 |
12" rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO) |
Jun 22 |
Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters (9th inn) |
Jun 23 |
Compton & Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt v South Africa |
Jun 23 |
US President Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by Congress |
Jun 24 |
29th PGA Championship: Jim Ferrier at Plum Hollow CC Detroit |
Jun 24 |
Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold |
Jun 24 |
Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career |
Jun 24 |
Jim Ferrier wins PGA golf tournament |
Jun 25 |
1st version of Anne Frank's diary "Het Achterhuis" published in The Netherlands |
Jun 25 |
Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello |
Jun 27 |
98°F (36.8°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands |
Jun 27 |
WRC TV channel 4 in Washington DC (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jun 28 |
"Temptation" (Tim-Tayshun) by Red Ingle with Jo Stafford hits #1 |
Jun 29 |
2nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betty Jameson |
Jun 29 |
Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak |
Jul 1 |
192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched |
Jul 1 |
British Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office |
Jul 2 |
Military coup discovered in France |
Jul 3 |
252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC |
Jul 3 |
Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the 1st black in AL |
Jul 3 |
Soviet Union doesn't participate in Marshall Plan |
Jul 4 |
61st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom P Brown (6-1 6-3 6-2) |
Jul 4 |
76th British Golf Open: Fred Daly shoots a 293 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club |
Jul 5 |
"Barefoot Boy with Cheek" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 108 perfs |
Jul 5 |
54th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Margaret Osborne beat Doris Hart (6-2 6-4) |
Jul 5 |
Larry Doby signs with Cleveland Indians-1st black player in AL |
Jul 6 |
The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union. |
Jul 7 |
Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident. |
Jul 8 |
14th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Wrigley Field, Chicago |
Jul 8 |
Demolition begins for UN HQ in NYC |
Jul 8 |
Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crashed landed in Roswell, New Mexico. |
Jul 9 |
Britain's Princess Elizabeth & Lt Philip Mountbatten's engagement |
Jul 9 |
Spain votes for Franco monarchy |
Jul 10 |
200 die when train derailed & fell into a river in Canton, China |
Jul 10 |
Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Phila A's, 3-0 |
Jul 10 |
Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee. |
Jul 16 |
Bobo Newsom wins 200th game, 1st as a Yankee & Yanks 18th straight In nightcap Vic Rashi extends streak to 19 |
Jul 18 |
British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine |
Jul 18 |
King George VI signs Indian Independence Act |
Jul 18 |
President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act |
Jul 18 |
Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0, end 19 game win streak |
Jul 18 |
US begins administering Trust Territory of Pacific Islands |
Jul 19 |
Prime Minister of shadow Burma government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members assassinated by armed paramilitaries |
Jul 20 |
1st political action of Neth Army on Java & Sumatra |
Jul 21 |
Indonesia begins 1st political election |
Jul 22 |
-8°F (-13°C), Charlotte Pass, NSW (Australian record) |
Jul 23 |
1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI |
Jul 25 |
US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Department of Defense |
Jul 25 |
US Department of Army created |
Jul 26 |
US Department of Defense forms |
Jul 26 |
National Security Act establishes CIA |
Jul 27 |
Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak |
Jul 28 |
Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania |
Jul 29 |
Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg Va |
Jul 30 |
Cin Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to NY Giants 5-4 |
Aug 1 |
"Medium & The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 211 perfs |
Aug 1 |
Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel |
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 Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8" |
Aug 7 |
Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef |
Aug 7 |
The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST). |
Aug 7 |
Thor Heyerdahl and his fellow adventurers aboard the Kon-Tiki reach the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia after 101 days at sea crossing the Pacific Ocean |
Aug 8 |
Pakistan's National Flag is approved. |
Aug 14 |
Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000 |
Aug 14 |
Pakistan gains independence from Great Britain |
Aug 15 |
India gains independence from Great Britain, remains a dominion until 1950 |
Aug 16 |
Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs |
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 21 |
1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win |
Aug 22 |
14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chi 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 speech record, 1,047 kph |
Aug 26 |
1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat) |
Aug 29 |
Constantine Tsaldaris succeeds Maximos as Greece 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 |
NY Giants 183-185 HR of year breaks Yankee mark of 182 in 1936 |
Sep 3 |
Phila A's Bill McCahan no-hits Wash Senators, 3-0 |
Sep 3 |
Yanks get 18 singles to beat Red Soxs 11-2 |
Sep 7 |
Battles between Hindus & Moslems in New Delhi, India |
Sep 8 |
British government sails "Exodus" with fugitives from Nazis |
Sep 12 |
Pirate Ralph Kiner hits his record 8th HR in 4 games |
Sep 13 |
WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 14 |
61st US Women's Tennis: A Louise Brough beats M O duPont (8-6 4-6 6-1) |
Sep 14 |
67th US Men's Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Frank A Parker (4-6 2-6 6-1 6-0 6-3) |
Sep 15 |
First 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh |
Sep 15 |
Yanks clinch pennant #15 |
Sep 15 |
RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube. |
Sep 15 |
Typhoon Kathleen hit Tone River, Saitama and Tokyo area, killing at least 1,930 and injuring 1,750.. |
Sep 16 |
John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH |
Sep 16 |
Typhoon Kathleen hit Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River erea, at least 1,930 killed. |
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 17 |
US Department of Defense forms |
Sep 18 |
National Security Act passes |
Sep 18 |
US Air Force forms |
Sep 19 |
Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year" |
Sep 22 |
Dodgers clinch NL pennant |
Sep 26 |
Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series |
Sep 27 |
"Sweethearts" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 288 performances |
Sep 29 |
Dizzy Gillespie presented his 1st Carnegie Hall concert in NY |
Sep 29 |
Former Yank manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Red Sox |
Sep 29 |
Record World Series crowd of 73,365 at Yankee Stadium ($325,828) |
Sep 30 |
Yanks beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73,365-1st WS televised |
Oct 1 |
1st helicopter air mail & express service, LA, Ca |
Oct 1 |
NHL Pension Society founded |
Oct 1 |
US control of Haitian customs & governmental revenue ends |
Oct 1 |
William Wister Haines' "Command Decision" premieres in NYC |
Oct 1 |
The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time. |
Oct 2 |
"Music in My Heart" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 124 performances |
Oct 2 |
Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted |
Oct 2 |
Yankee Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a World Series homer |
Oct 3 |
"Under the Counter" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 27 performances |
Oct 3 |
1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed |
Oct 3 |
WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington, DC (ABC) begins |
Oct 3 |
With only 1 out to go, Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his World Series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs & he lost game |
Oct 4 |
Negro League World Series, NY Cubans beat Cleveland Buckeyes, 6-5 |
Oct 5 |
1st Presidential address televised from White House- Harry Truman |
Oct 5 |
Al Gionfriddo makes a great catch off Joe Dimaggio in World Series |
Oct 6 |
NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series |
Oct 7 |
Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series |
Oct 9 |
First telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane |
Oct 9 |
Julie Styne & Sam Cohn's musical "High Button Shoes" premieres in NYC for 727 performances |
Oct 10 |
Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "Allegro" premieres at Majestic Theater NYC for 318 performances |
Oct 11 |
Brazil & Chile break diplomatic relations with USSR |
Oct 13 |
"Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres |
Oct 13 |
1st NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 4-3 at Toronto |
Oct 14 |
Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015) |
Oct 14 |
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower |
Oct 19 |
De Gaulles RPF wins French municipal elections |
Oct 20 |
HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood |
Oct 20 |
Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years |
Oct 20 |
Robinson Jeffer's "Medea," premieres in NYC |
Oct 21 |
Dutch Dakota explodes near Coopenhagen, 16 die |
Oct 23 |
NAACP petition on racism "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN |
Oct 23 |
Husband & wife Dr Carl Cori & Dr Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes |
Oct 24 |
Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States) |
Oct 25 |
"Under the Counter" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 27 perfs |
Oct 25 |
Bradman scores 156 for SA v the Indians, 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. |
Oct 27 |
"You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio |
Oct 27 |
WMAR TV channel 2 in Baltimore, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 29 |
Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands form Benelux Union |
Oct 29 |
Trial of art forger Han van Meegeren begins in Amsterdam |
Oct 30 |
23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva |
Oct 30 |
Darius Milhauds 3rd Symphony "Hymnus Ambrosianus," premieres in Paris |
Nov 1 |
"Medium & The Telephone" closes at Barrymore NYC after 211 perfs |
Nov 1 |
First Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii |
Nov 1 |
Howard Hughes flies "Spruce Goose", a huge wooden airplane |
Nov 1 |
UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ & UK |
Nov 2 |
7th Ryder Cup: US wins 11-1 at Portland Golf Club (Portland, Oregon, US) |
Nov 2 |
Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for 1st (& last) time |
Nov 8 |
Bradman scores his 99th 1st-class cricket century, 100 SA v Victoria |
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 |
Nov 20 |
"Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC |
Nov 20 |
1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey) |
Nov 20 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mediator Dei |
Nov 20 |
UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps |
Nov 21 |
Bill Longson beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to become wrestling champ |
Nov 23 |
French government of Schumann forms |
Nov 23 |
Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chi Cards (45-21) |
Nov 24 |
John Steinbeck's novel "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 27 |
Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote |
Nov 29 |
35th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 10-9 |
Nov 29 |
UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs & Jews |
Nov 30 |
Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked |
Dec 1 |
Don Bradman scores 185 in the 1st Cricket Test v India at the Gabba |
Dec 1 |
India cricket all out for 58 v Australia at the Gabba, Toshack 5-2 |
Dec 2 |
13th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lujack, Notre Dame (QB) |
Dec 3 |
Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire" premieres in NYC |
Dec 4 |
USSR joins Intl Amateur Athletic Union |
Dec 5 |
Joe Louis beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Dec 6 |
The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated. |
Dec 8 |
"Caribbean Carnival" opens at International Theater NYC for 11 perfs |
Dec 10 |
USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement |
Dec 11 |
Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigman's musical "Angel in the Wings" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 308 performances |
Dec 11 |
Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected |
Dec 12 |
United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL |
Dec 13 |
"Caribbean Carnival" closes at International NYC after 11 perfs |
Dec 13 |
Maine Turnpike opens to traffic |
Dec 14 |
Cleveland Browns beat NY Yankees 14-3 in AAFC championship game |
Dec 14 |
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida. |
Dec 17 |
NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow |
Dec 17 |
WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Dec 18 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Optissima Pax |
Dec 22 |
Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution |
Dec 23 |
Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs |
Dec 25 |
Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law) |
Dec 25 |
The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect. |
Dec 26 |
"Cradle Will Ruck" opens at Mansfield Theater NYC for 34 performances |
Dec 26 |
British transfer Heard & McDonald Is (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 28 |
Chic Cards beat Philadelphia Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game |
Dec 29 |
Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine |
Dec 30 |
36th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1) |
Dec 30 |
King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne |
Dec 30 |
Romanian republic proclaimed |
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