The temperature on October 24, 1947 was between 3.7 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
December 2 » Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
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