The temperature on December 18, 1947 was between -5.0 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 6 » Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
February 25 » The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.
July 19 » Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
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