January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
Day of death July 17, 1947
The temperature on July 17, 1947 was between 15.5 °C and 29.3 °C and averaged 21.5 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
June 25 » The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
July 1 » The Philippine Air Force is established.
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.
September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
November 20 » The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.
November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
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