The temperature on December 10, 1947 was between -1.8 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
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 1 » Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
July 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
July 11 » The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
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.
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