January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of death April 3, 1947
The temperature on April 3, 1947 was between 0.7 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
April 9 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
November 2 » In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
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