The temperature on February 9, 1947 was between -7.4 °C and -2 °C and averaged -4.8 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
March 1 » The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
June 10 » Saab produces its first automobile.
September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
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.
November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
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