The temperature on September 17, 1947 was between 13.8 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 23 » International Organization for Standardization is founded.
March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
Day of death October 4, 1947
The temperature on October 4, 1947 was between 1.6 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 6 » Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
April 6 » The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
July 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
August 7 » The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
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.
November 17 » The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
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