February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
August 2 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
Day of death September 2, 1947
The temperature on September 2, 1947 was between 12.1 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The Black Dahlia murder: the dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
February 12 » The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
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