The temperature on July 23, 1947 was between 16.7 °C and 30.8 °C and averaged 23.5 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
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 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.
October 16 » The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
November 6 » Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.
December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
2013 » Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (b. 1918)
2014 » Lorna Wing, English psychiatrist and physician; pioneered studies of autism (b. 1928)
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