Year '1947' ('
MCMXLVII') was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1947
January
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January 1
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★ British mines are
nationalized.
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Nigeria gains limited
autonomy.
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★ The
Canadian Citizenship Act goes into effect.
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January 3 - Proceedings of the
U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
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January 10 - The
United Nations takes control of the free city of
Trieste.
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January 15 -
Elizabeth Short (the "Black Dahlia") is found murdered.
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January 16 -
Vincent Auriol is inaugurated as president of
France.
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January 19 - 392 drown in a shipwreck near
Athens,
Greece.
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January 24 -
Dimitrios Maximos founds monarchist government in Athens.
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January 25 - Philippine plane crashes in
Hong Kong with $5 million worth of gold and money.
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January 30 -
February 8 - A heavy
blizzard in
Canada buries towns from
Winnipeg to
Calgary.
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January 31 -
Communists take power in
Poland.
February
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February 3
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★ In
Snag, Yukon Territory, -63 degrees Celsius, lowest recorded temperature in North America.
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Percival Prattis becomes the first
black news correspondent allowed in the
United States House of Representatives and
Senate press gallery.
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February 5 -
Boleslaw Bierut becomes president of
Poland.
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February 8 - A dance hall fire in
Berlin kills over 80.
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February 10 -
Paris peace treaties are signed between the
World War II Allies and
Italy,
Hungary,
Romania,
Bulgaria and
Finland: Italy cedes most of
Istria to
Yugoslavia.
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February 12 - A
meteor creates a
crater in
Sikhote-Alin,
Soviet Union.
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February 17 -
Propaganda: The ''
Voice of America'' begins to transmit
radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union.
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February 20 - An explosion at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Co in
Los Angeles, California leaves 17 dead, 100 buildings damaged, and a 22-foot crater.
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February 21 - In
New York City,
Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the
Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the
Optical Society of America.
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February 23 -
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
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February 25
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★ State of
Prussia ceases to exist.
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★ Worst-ever train crash in
Japan kills 184.
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February 28
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★ USA gives France a military base in
Casablanca.
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★ In
Taiwan,
civil disorder is put down with large loss of civilian lives.
March
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March 1
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★ The
International Monetary Fund begins to operate.
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Wernher von Braun marries his first cousin, 18-year-old Maria von Quirstorp.
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March 6 -
USS Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from
Newport News, Virginia.
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March 12 - The
Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of
Communism.
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March 14 - The
River Thames bursts its banks.
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March 15 -
Hindus and
Muslims clash in
Punjab.
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March 21 - Homer Collyer of the
Collyer brothers is found dead in their house in
Harlem,
New York City. His brother is found
April 8.
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March 25 - A
coal mine explosion in
Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
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March 28 - A
WW2 Japanese
booby trap explodes in
Corregidor, killing 28.
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March 29 - Rebellion against French rule erupts in
Madagascar.
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March 31 - The leaders of the People's
Republic of Mahabad, the second
Kurdish state in the history of
Iran, are hanged at the
Chuwarchira Square in
Mahabad after the country is conquered by Iranian forces.
April
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April 1
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Jackie Robinson, the first
African American baseball professional, signs a contract with the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
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★ King
George II of Greece is succeeded by his brother King
Paul I.
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April 9 - A multiple outbreak of tornadoes occur from Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Killing 181 and injuring 970. Not known how many touched down.
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April 15 -
Jackie Robinson becomes the first
African American to play Major League Baseball.
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April 16 - The
Texas City Disaster: An
Ammonium nitrate cargo of ''SS Grandcamp'' explodes in
Texas City, Texas - 552 dead, 3,000 injured, 200 lost, 20 city blocks destroyed.
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April 18 - The British Royal Navy detonates 6,800 tonnes of explosives in a concerted attempt to destroy the small island of
Heligoland,
Germany, creating the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history.
May
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May 1 - The
Salvatore Giuliano Gang opens fire on a labor parade near
Portella Della Ginestra,
Sicily, killing 11 and wounding 30.
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May 3 - The new post-war
Japanese constitution goes into effect.
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May 22 -
Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of
Communism, President
Harry S. Truman signs an act implementing the
Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to
Turkey and
Greece.
June
★
June 5 - Secretary of State
George Marshall outlines the
Marshall Plan for
U.S. aid to Europe.
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June 7 - The ASA (currently
Steaua) sport club is founded in Bucharest, Romania.
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June 10 -
Saab produces its first
automobile.
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June 15 -
Portuguese government orders 11 military officers and 19 university professors accused of revolutionary activity to resign.
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June 20 -
Bugsy Siegel is found shot in the
Beverly Hills mansion of
Virginia Hill.
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June 21
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★ Seaman Harold Dahl claims to have seen six
UFOs near
Maury Island. The next morning Dahl reports the first modern
Men in Black encounter.
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★ The
Canadian Parliament votes unaminiously to pass several laws regarding displaced foreign refugees.
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June 23 - The
United States Senate follows the
United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President
Harry S. Truman's
veto of the
Taft-Hartley Act.
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June 24 -
Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near
Mount Rainier,
Washington.
July
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), created July 1947
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July 1 - The Australian
real estate franchise
L. J. Hooker lists on the
Australian Stock Exchange.
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July 5 - A downed
UFO is allegedly found in the
Roswell UFO incident, written about by
Stanton T. Friedman.
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July 10 -
Princess Elizabeth announces her engagement to
Philip Mountbatten.
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July 11 - ''
Exodus (ship)'' departs France to
Palestine with 4,500 Jewish
Holocaust survivor refugees.
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July 18 - Following wide media and
UNSCOP coverage, ''
Exodus (ship)'' is captured by
British troops and refused entry to Palestine in the port of
Haifa.
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July 18 - President
Harry S. Truman signs the
Presidential Succession Act into law which places the
Speaker of the House and the
Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the
United States Vice President.
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July 19 -
Burmese nationalist
Aung San is murdered.
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July 26 -
Cold War: U.S. President
Harry S. Truman signs the
National Security Act into law, creating the
Central Intelligence Agency,
Department of Defense,
Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the
National Security Council.
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July 29 - After being shut off on
November 9,
1946 for a refurbishment,
ENIAC, one of the world's first digital
computers, is turned on after a memory upgrade. It will remain in continuous operation until
October 2,
1955.
August
Flag of the newly independent Pakistan
Flag of the newly independent India
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August 4 -
UK Betty Moore from Horsham, Sussex, sails in her first Cowes Week. 59 years later she is awarded the Skandia Cowes Week Ladies Day Trophy after campaigning her Solent Sunbeam, WHY, in all 60 consecutive regattas.
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August 5 - The
Netherlands stops political actions in
Indonesia.
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August 7
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★
Thor Heyerdahl's
balsa wood raft, the
Kon-Tiki, smashes into the
reef at
Raroia in the
Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day, 4,300 mile journey across the
Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from
South America.
★
★ The
Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the
Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
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August 14 - After 90 years of British colonial rule,
Pakistan gains independence from the
British Empire under the leadership of Quaid-e-Azam
Muhammad Ali Jinnah. While the transition is officially at midnight on this day, Pakistan celebrates its independence on August 14 compared to India on the 15th.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah became the first
Governor General of
Pakistan.
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August 15
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★ Following decades of non-violent resistance and periodic civil unrest from 1919,
India gains independence from the British Empire. Mahatma Gandhi shows the world that more can be achieved through ahimsa and dharma rather than with violence and destruction. Pakistan splits from India.
Rajendra Prasad is the first
President of India.
Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as the first
Prime Minister of India.
★
★ The Khan of
Baluchistan declares
independence (accedes to
Pakistan in 1948).
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August 16 - In
Greece, General
Markos Vafiadis takes over.
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August 23 -
Prime Minister of Greece Dimitrios Maximos resigns.
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August 24 - The first
Edinburgh International Festival begins, with a post-war mission to 'provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit’.
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August 27 - When the
French government lowers the
bread ration to 200 grams, it causes
riots in
Verdun and
Le Mans.
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August 30 - Fire at a movie theater in
Rueil, a suburb of
Paris,
France kills 87.
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August 31 -
Communists take power in
Hungary.
September
★
September 4-
September 21 - A hurricane in southeast Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama leaves 51 dead.
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September 13 - Indian Prime Minister
Nehru suggests the transfer of 4 million Hindus and Muslims between
India and
Pakistan.
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September 18
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★ The
United States Army Air Forces, along with some components of the
United States Navy's air arm, becomes the
United States Air Force.
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★ The
National Security Act creates the
Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA.
October
★
October 14 - American test pilot Captain
Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the
speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
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October 20 - The
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 begins.
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October 30 -
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the
World Trade Organization (WTO) is founded.
November
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November 2
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★ In
California, designer
Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the
Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing
aircraft ever built (flight lasted only eight minutes).
★
★ Earthquake in
Chilean
Andes kills 233.
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November 10 - The arrest of four steel workers in
Marseille begins a
communist riot that spreads to
Paris.
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November 16
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★ In
Brussels, 15,000 demonstrate against the relatively short sentences of
Nazis.
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★ The British begin to withdraw their troops from Palestine.
The Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh on their wedding day
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November 20
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★
The Princess Elizabeth, daughter of
King George VI marries the
Duke of Edinburgh at
Westminster Abbey,
London.
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★
Paul Ramadier resigns as
Prime Minister of France - he is succeeded by
Robert Schuman. Schuman calls 80,000 reservists to quell the rioting miners.
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November 21 - The United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment begins in Havana, Cuba. The conference ends in 1948, when members finish the Havana Charter.
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November 24 -
Red Scare: The
United States House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt of
U.S. Congress against the so-called
Hollywood 10 after the 10 had refused to co-operate with the
House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of
Communist influence in the
movie industry, (the 10 were
blacklisted by
Hollywood movie studios the next day).
★
November 25 -
New Zealand ratifies the
Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the
United Kingdom.
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November 27 - In
Paris, police occupy the editorial offices of communist newspapers.
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November 29 - The
United Nations General Assembly votes to partition
Palestine between
Arabs and
Jews.
December
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December 3
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French communist strikers derail the Paris-Tourcoing Express train because of false rumors that it was transporting soldiers - 21 dead.
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★
Tennessee Williams' play ''
A Streetcar Named Desire'' opens on
Broadway.
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December 4 -
French interior minister Jules Moch secures
emergency measures against
riots after six days of violent arguments in the
national assembly.
★
December 9 - French
labour unions call off the general strike and begin negotiations with the French government.
★
December 12 - The
Iranian Royal Army takes back power in
Azerbaijan province.
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December 22
★
★ The
Italian Constituent Assembly votes to accept the new
constitution.
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★ The first practical
transistor is demonstrated.
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December 30 - King
Michael of Romania abdicates.
Undated
★ The
House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigations into
communism in
Hollywood.
★
Cambridge University begins to admit women as full students.
★
Mikhail Kalashnikov designs the
AK-47 assault rifle.
★
Raytheon produces first commercial
microwave oven.
★
Women's suffrage is granted in
Argentina.
★ In a
cave in and around the Wadi
Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the
Dead Sea), several tall pottery jars containing leather scrolls are discovered, which later became known as the '
Dead Sea scrolls'.
[1]
★ By discovery of
Promethium in products of nuclear fission, last gap of
periodic table was closed.And then he said I am cool
Ongoing
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Marshall Plan
Births
January-February
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January 2
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Ai, American poet
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Jack Hanna, American zoologist
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January 3 -
Patricia Anthony, American author
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January 6 -
Sandy Denny, British singer (d.
1978)
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January 7 -
Shobha De, Indian writer
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January 8
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David Bowie, English musician
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Jenny Boyd, British model
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Samuel Schmid, Swiss Federal Councilor
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January 9 -
Ronnie Landfield, American artist
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January 11
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★
Tom Netherton, American singer
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Mart Smeets, Dutch sports journalist
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January 14 -
Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (d.
2003)
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January 16 -
Laura Schlessinger, American psychologist and radio talk show host
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January 18 -
Takeshi Kitano, Japanese film director and actor
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January 23 -
Thomas R. Carper, U.S. Senator from Delaware
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January 24 -
Warren Zevon, American musician (d.
2003)
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January 26 -
Richard Portnow, American actor
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January 29 -
Linda B. Buck, American biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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January 30
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Les Barker, English poet
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★
Steve Marriott, British musician (
The Small Faces) and (
Humble Pie) (d.
1991)
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January 31 -
Nolan Ryan, baseball player
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February 1 -
Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d.
1983)
★
February 2 -
Farrah Fawcett, American actress
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February 3
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Melanie, American singer
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★
Paul Auster, American novelist
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February 4 -
Dan Quayle,
Vice President of the United States
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February 5 -
Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver and broadcaster
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February 10
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★
Louise Arbour, Canadian jurist
★
★
Nicholas Owen, English newsreader (ITN)
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February 13 -
Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball coach
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February 15 -
John Coolidge Adams, American composer
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February 18
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★
Princess Christina of the Netherlands
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★
Dennis DeYoung, American musician (
Styx)
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February 20
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★
Peter Osgood, English footballer (d.
2006)
★
★
Peter Strauss, American actor
★
February 21 -
Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (d.
2006)
★
February 24 -
Edward James Olmos, American actor
★
February 25 -
Doug Yule, American singer and musician (
The Velvet Underground)
★
February 26 -
Sandie Shaw, British singer
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February 27 -
Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist
March-April
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March 4
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David Franzoni, American screenwriter
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Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
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★
Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor
★
★
Gwen Welles, American actress (d.
1993)
★
March 6
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★
Kiki Dee, English singer
★
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Dick Fosbury, American athlete
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★
Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
★
★
Rob Reiner, American director, actor, comedian, and producer
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March 7
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Matthew Fisher, British singer, songwriter, and producer
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★
Walter Röhrl, German race car driver
★
★
Richard Lawson, American actor
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March 8 -
Carole Bayer Sager, American composer
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March 10
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★
Kim Campbell,
Prime Minister of Canada
★
★
Tom Scholz, American musician, songwriter, and inventor
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March 12
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★
Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist
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★
Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts
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March 13 -
Beat Richner, Swiss pediatrician and cellist
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March 14
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Pam Ayres, British poet
★
★
Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
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March 15 -
Ry Cooder, American guitarist
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March 16 -
Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist
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March 17 -
Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born composer and producer
★
March 19 -
Glenn Close, American actress
★
March 20 -
John Boswell, American historian (d.
1994)
★
March 24 -
Louise Lanctôt, Canadian terrorist and writer
★
March 25 -
Elton John, English singer, pianist, and songwriter
★
March 27 -
Walt Mossberg, American newspaper columnist
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April 1 -
Alain Connes, French mathematician
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April 2
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★
Emmylou Harris, American singer
★
★
Camille Paglia, American literary critic
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April 4 -
Eliseo Soriano, Philippine preacher
★
April 5 -
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, incumbent Philippine president and daughter of former president
Diosdado Macapagal
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April 6 -
John Ratzenberger, American actor
★
April 8 -
Tom DeLay, American politician
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April 11 -
Deem Bristow, American video game actor (d.
2005)
★
April 12
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★
Tom Clancy, American author
★
★
David Letterman, American entertainer
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April 15
★
★
Lois Chiles, American actress
★
★
Mike Chapman, Australian-born record producer and songwriter
★
April 16 -
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
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April 18
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★
Kathy Acker, American author (d.
1997)
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★
James Woods, American actor
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April 19 -
Murray Perahia, American pianist
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April 21
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★
Iggy Pop, American musician (
The Stooges)
★
★
John Weider, British musician (
Eric Burdon and the Animals and
Family)
★
April 25 -
Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer and coach
★
April 29 -
Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian philosopher
★
April 30 -
Leslie Grantham, British actor
May-June
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May 4 -
Theda Skocpol, American sociologist
★
May 6 -
Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
★
May 8 -
H. Robert Horvitz, American biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
★
May 12 -
Michael Ignatieff, a
Canadian public intellectual with a background in philosophy and history.
★
May 13 -
Stephen R. Donaldson, American novelist
★
May 19 -
Paul Brady, Northern Ireland singer/songwriter
★
May 23 -
Bernard Comrie, English linguist
★
May 24 -
Maude Barlow, Canadian author, activist and National Chairperson of
The Council of Canadians
★
May 26 -
Glenn Turner,
New Zealand cricket captains
★
May 27
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★
Branko Oblak, Slovenian football player and coach
★
★
Peter DeFazio, American politician
★
May 29 -
Stan Zemanek, Australian radio broadcaster (d.
2007)
★
June 4 -
Viktor Klima,
Chancellor of Austria
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June 6
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★
David Blunkett, British politician
★
★
Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer
★
★
Robert Englund, American actor
★
June 7 -
Thurman Munson, Yankee catcher (d.
1979)
★
June 8 -
Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
★
June 14 -
Barry Melton, American musician (
Country Joe and The Fish and
The Dinosaurs)
★
June 15 -
John Hoagland, American war photographer (d.
1984)
★
June 16 -
-minu, Swiss columnist and writer
★
June 19 -
Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
★
June 19 -
Salman Rushdie, Indian-born author
★
★
Candy Clark, American actress
★
June 21 -
Shirin Ebadi, Iranian activist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
★
June 22
★
★
Octavia Butler, American author (d.
2006)
★
★
David Lander, American actor and baseball scout
★
★
Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d.
1988)
★
★
Mike Stone, American football player
★
June 28 -
Mark Helprin, American writer
July-August
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July 2 -
Larry David, American actor, writer, producer, and director
★
July 3 -
Dave Barry, American writer
★
July 7
★
★
Richard Beckinsale, British actor (d.
1979)
★
★
Rob Townsend, British drummer (
Family)
★
July 8 -
Bobby Sowell, pianist and composer
★
July 9
★
★
Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician (
Yellow Magic Orchestra)
★
★
Mitch Mitchell, American drummer (
Jimi Hendrix Experience)
★
★
O.J. Simpson, American football player and actor
★
July 10 -
Arlo Guthrie, American singer
★
July 17 -
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
★
July 18 -
Steven W. Mahoney, Canadian politician
★
July 19 -
Brian May, English guitarist (
Queen)
★
July 20
★
★
Gerd Binnig, German physicis,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
★
Carlos Santana, Mexican-born guitarist
★
July 21 -
Co Adriaanse, Dutch football manager
★
July 24 -
Peter Serkin, American pianist
★
July 30 -
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and 38th
Governor of California
★
July 31 -
Richard Griffiths, English actor
★
August 7 -
Franciscus Henri, Dutch born Australian children's entertainer, composer and artist
★
August 9 -
John Varley, American science-fiction author
★
August 10 -
Ian Anderson, British musician (
Jethro Tull)
★
August 12 -
William Hartston, British chess player
★
August 15 -
Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress
★
August 19 -
Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
★
August 19 -
Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d.
2007)
★
August 23 -
Willy Russell, British playwright
★
August 24 -
Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
★
August 27 -
Barbara Bach, American actress
★
August 28 -
Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress
★
August 30 -
Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat
September-October
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September 1 -
Al Green, American politician
★
September 3 -
Kjell Magne Bondevik,
Prime Minister of Norway
★
September 6 -
Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
★
September 14 -
Sam Neill, New Zealand actor
★
September 17 -
Tessa Jowell, British politician
★
September 19 -
Steve Bartlett, U.S. Congressman and Mayor of Dallas, Texas
★
September 21 -
Stephen King, American author
★
September 22 -
Norma McCorvey, American abortion plaintiff
★
September 25 -
Ali Parvin, Iranian footballer and coach
★
September 27
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★
Dick Advocaat, Dutch football manager
★
★
Meat Loaf (born Marvin Lee Aday), singer and actor
★
September 30 -
Marc Bolan, English musician (
T. Rex) (d.
1977)
★
October 1 -
Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
★
October 2 -
Ward Churchill, American author and activist
★
October 5 -
Brian Johnson, English singer (
AC/DC)
★
October 6 -
Gail Farrell, American singer
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October 7 -
Pip Williams, British record producer
★
October 9 -
France Gall, French singer
★
October 10 -
Martin Ruane, British wrestler best known as Giant Haystacks and later, The Loch Ness Monster (d.
1998)
★
October 13 -
Sammy Hagar, American singer
★
October 14 -
Lukas Resetarits, Austrian singer and actor
★
October 16 -
Bob Weir, American guitarist (
Grateful Dead)
★
October 17
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★
Gene Green, American politician
★
★
Michael McKean, American actor and comedian
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October 18 -
James H. Fallon, American neuroscientist
★
October 19 -
Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comics artist and illustrator
★
October 22 -
Ed Welch, English television composer
★
October 24 -
Kevin Kline, American actor
★
October 25 -
Glenn Tipton, English guitarist (
Judas Priest)
★
October 26
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Hillary Rodham Clinton,
First Lady of the United States and Senator from New York
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★
Trevor Joyce, Irish poet
★
October 29 -
Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
November-December
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November 6 -
Jim Rosenthal, ITV sport presenter
★
November 10 -
Glen Buxton, American guitarist (
Alice Cooper) (d.
1997)
★
November 14 -
P. J. O'Rourke, American journalist and satirist
★
November 17 -
Inky Mark, Canadian politician
★
November 19
★
★
Bob Boone, baseball player and manager
★
★
Lamar S. Smith, American politician
★
November 20 -
Joe Walsh,
Singer,
Songwriter,
Guitarist
★
November 22 -
Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
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November 24
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Dwight Schultz, American actor
★
★
Johnny Zell, American musician
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November 25 -
John Larroquette, American actor
★
November 30
★
★
Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet
★
★
David Mamet, American playwright
★
December 2 -
Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (
Les Variations)
★
December 7 -
Wendy Padbury, British actress
★
December 8 -
Thomas R. Cech, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
December 9 -
Tom Daschle, U.S. Senator
★
December 10 -
Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
★
December 12 -
Will Alsop, English architect
★
December 14 -
Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
★
December 16 -
Vincent Matthews, American athlete
★
December 18 -
Rod Piazza, American musician
★
December 21
★
★
Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist
★
★
Bryan Hamilton, Irish footballer and football manager
★
December 26 -
Carlton Fisk, baseball player
★
December 28 -
Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican
Major League Baseball player (d.
2000)
★
December 29 -
Ted Danson, American actor
★
December 30
★
★
Michael Burns, American actor
★
★
Jeff Lynne, British musician (
Electric Light Orchestra)
★
December 31
★
★
Burton Cummings, Canadian musician
★
★
Tim Matheson, American actor
★ ''date unknown'' -
Peter Irniq, Commissioner of Nunavut
Deaths
January - June
★
January 15 -
Elizabeth Short, "The Black Dahlia", famous murder victim (b.
1924)
★
January 20
★
★
Andrew Volstead, American politician (b.
1860)
★
★
Josh Gibson, baseball player (b.
1911)
★
January 23 -
Pierre Bonnard, French painter (b.
1867)
★
January 25 -
Al Capone, American gangster (b.
1899)
★
January 27 -
Vasily Balabanov, an administrator and Provincial
Governor of
Imperial Russia (b.
1873)
★
February 12 -
Sidney Toler, American actor, best known for playing Charlie Chan (b.
1874)
★
February 27 -
Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor (b.
1868)
★
March 11 -
Victor Lustig, Austrian-born con artist (b.
1890)
★
March 12 -
Walter Samuel Goodland, Governor of Wisconsin (b.
1862)
★
March 18 -
William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b.
1861)
★
March 19 -
Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (b.
1896)
★
March 20 -
Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (b.
1888)
★
March 23 -
Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b.
1870)
★
March 25 -
Chen Cheng-po, Taiwanese painter (b.
1895)
★
March 28 -
Karol Świerczewski, Polish military leader (b.
1897)
★
March 30 -
Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (b.
1863)
★
April 1 - King
George II of Greece (b.
1890)
★
April 7 -
Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer (b.
1863)
★
April 20 - King
Christian X of Denmark (b.
1870)
★
April 24 -
Willa Cather, American novelist (b.
1873)
★
May 8 -
Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (b.
1858)
★
May 13 -
Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet (b.
1926)
★
May 16 -
Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b.
1861)
★
May 17 -
George William Forbes,
Prime Minister of New Zealand (b.
1869)
★
May 20 -
Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1862)
★
May 24 -
C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (b.
1878)
★
May 30 -
Georg Ritter von Trapp, sailor (b.
1880)
★
May 31 -
Adrienne Ames, American actress (b.
1907)
★
June 11 -
Richard Hönigswald, philosopher (b.
1875)
★
June 19 -
Kōsō Abe, Japanese admiral (b.
1892)
★
June 26 -
Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh
Prime Minister of Canada (b.
1870)
July - December
★
July 19 -
Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b.
1915)
★
July 30 -
Joseph Cook, sixth
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1860)
★
August 8 -
Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian military leader (b.
1872)
★
September 1 -
Frederick Russell Burnham, American Scout, father of the international scouting movement (b.
1861
★
October 4 -
Max Planck, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1858)
★
October 6 -
Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b.
1887)
★
October 28 -
Earl Snell, Governor of Oregon (plane crash.) (b.
1895)
★
October 29 -
Frances Cleveland, wife of President
Grover Cleveland (b.
1864)
★
November 25 -
Léon-Paul Fargue, French writer (b.
1876)
★
December 1 -
Aleister Crowley, British occultist (b.
1875)
★
December 1 -
G. H. Hardy, British mathematician (b.
1877)
★
December 7 -
Nicholas M. Butler, American president of Columbia University, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1862)
★
December 7 -
Tristan Bernard, French writer and lawyer (b.
1866)
★
December 14
★
★
Stanley Baldwin,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1867)
★
★
Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b.
1864)
★
December 17 -
J. N. Brønsted, Danish chemist (b.
1879)
★
December 27 -
Johannes Winkler, German rocket pioneer (b.
1897)
★
December 28 -
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b.
1869)
★
Emil J. Brach, American candy manufacturer (b.
1859)
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Edward Victor Appleton
★
Chemistry -
Sir Robert Robinson
★
Medicine -
Carl Ferdinand Cori,
Gerty Cori,
Bernardo Houssay
★
Literature -
André Gide
★
Peace - The Friends Service Council (UK) and The
American Friends Service Committee (USA), on behalf of the
Religious Society of Friends
Ship events
★
List of ship commissionings in 1947
★
List of ship decommissionings in 1947
★
List of shipwrecks in 1947
See also
★
20th century
Notes
1. "Year by Year 1947" -- History Channel International
External links
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