The temperature on January 10, 1947 was between -2 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
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.
May 3 » New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.
November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
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