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The following events occurred in
July 1947
:
July 1
, 1947 (Tuesday)
The
Summer Offensive of 1947 in Northeast China
ended in Communist victory.
Chiang Kai-shek
ordered the general mobilization of
Nationalist
troops against the
Communists
.
[1]
The United States launched the
National Malaria Eradication Program
.
The
Philippine Air Force
was established.
The inaugural draft
of the
Basketball Association of America
(which later became the
National Basketball Association
) was held in
Detroit
. The
Pittsburgh Ironmen
selected
Clifton McNeely
of
Texas Wesleyan University
as the #1 overall pick, but McNeely would never play in the BAA, opting for a high school coaching career instead.
July 2
, 1947 (Wednesday)
A conference in
Paris
between France, the UK and the USSR broke up after the Soviets rejected the
Marshall Plan
, which Britain and France accepted. Soviet Foreign Minister
Vyacheslav Molotov
warned that Europe would be split into eastern and western blocs if Britain and France acted alone; his UK counterpart
Ernest Bevin
declared that Britain had faced threats before and would not be deterred.
[2]
The Polish
Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
and
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
were established by Acts of Parliament.
Born:
Larry David
, comedy writer, actor and television producer, in
Brooklyn
, New York
Died:
Richard R. Wright
, 92, African-American military officer, educator, college president, civil rights advocate and banking entrepreneur
July 3
, 1947 (Thursday)
Following Molotov's departure, Britain and France invited 22 nations to Paris for a new conference on implementing the
Marshall Plan
.
[3]
Amir Sjarifuddin
became 2nd
Prime Minister of Indonesia
.
Born:
Dave Barry
, author and humor columnist, in
Armonk, New York
;
Betty Buckley
, actress and singer, in
Big Spring, Texas
July 4
, 1947 (Friday)
Albert Kesselring
's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
[4]
Fred Daly
won the
Open Championship
in
Hoylake
, England.
The Technicolor musical comedy film
The Perils of Pauline
starring
Betty Hutton
as the silent film star
Pearl White
was released.
Born:
Morganna
, entertainer known as the "Kissing Bandit", in
Louisville, Kentucky
July 5
, 1947 (Saturday)
Larry Doby
became the second baseball player to break the
color line
when he made his major league debut with the
Cleveland Indians
, striking out in a pinch-hit appearance against the
Chicago White Sox
.
[5]
Born:
Joe Brown
, lawyer, judge and arbiter of the television court show
Judge Joe Brown
, in
Washington, D.C.
July 6
, 1947 (Sunday)
The
AK-47
assault rifle went into production in the Soviet Union.
[6]
Spanish voters approved Franco's law of succession in
a referendum
, the first time the Spanish people had been allowed a chance to vote in 11 years. The result was reported as 95.1 percent in favor.
[3]
Kingsblood Royal
by
Sinclair Lewis
topped
The New York Times
Fiction Best Sellers
list.
Born:
Richard Beckinsale
, actor, in
Carlton, Nottinghamshire
, England (d. 1979);
Larnelle Harris
, gospel singer and songwriter, in
Danville, Kentucky
July 7
, 1947 (Monday)
Austria
applied for UN membership.
[3]
The Czechoslovak cabinet voted to accept
Marshall Plan
aid.
[7]
July 8
, 1947 (Tuesday)
The
Hostages Trial
began in
Nuremberg
. Twelve German generals of the
Balkan Campaign
were put on trial as those responsible for the hostage-taking of civilians and the wanton shooting of those hostages, as well as executions of arbitrarily designated "partisans".
Roswell UFO incident
: an
unidentified flying object
crashed near
Roswell, New Mexico
. Although it was officially reported to be a conventional
weather balloon
,
conspiracy theories
persist that the downed object was an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
American Communist leader
Eugene Dennis
was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $1,000 for refusing to testify before Congress.
[7]
The
American League
defeated the
National League
2–1 in the
14th Major League Baseball All-Star Game
at
Wrigley Field
in Chicago. The first episode of
Major League Baseball on NBC
was aired in conjunction.
Born:
Bobby Sowell
, rockabilly pianist and composer, in
Memphis, Tennessee
Died:
William G. Bramham
, 72, American baseball executive, lawyer and politician
July 9
, 1947 (Wednesday)
King
George VI
announced the engagement of his daughter
Princess Elizabeth
to
Lt. Philip Mountbatten
.
[3]
2,500 alleged communist plotters were arrested in
Athens
.
[1]
Born:
Haruomi Hosono
, electronic musician, in
Minato, Tokyo
, Japan;
O. J. Simpson
, American football player, broadcaster and actor, in
San Francisco
,
California
(d. 2024)
July 10
, 1947 (Thursday)
Czechoslovakia
withdrew from the Paris conference after initially agreeing to attend.
[3]
Don Black
of the
Cleveland Indians
pitched a 3-0
no-hitter
against the
Philadelphia Athletics
.
[8]
Born:
Arlo Guthrie
, folk singer-songwriter, on
Coney Island
, New York
Died:
Yitzchak Isaac Langner, 72,
Galician
Rabbi of
Stratyn
and New York
July 11
, 1947 (Friday)
The
SS
Exodus
departed
Sète
, France, loaded with 4,515
Jewish refugees
bound for Palestine.
The long poem
The Age of Anxiety
by
W. H. Auden
was published.
[7]
July 12
, 1947 (Saturday)
Representatives of 16 nations opened a conference in Paris to discuss implementation of the
Marshall Plan
.
[2]
Two British Army sergeants in Palestine were kidnapped in retaliation for death sentences imposed on three
Irgun
members convicted of leading the May 4
Acre Prison break
.
[3]
His Majesty
King George VI
graciously approved the addition of the prefix "Royal" to the following
Corps
of the
New Zealand Army
:
[9]
The Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps.
The Royal New Zealand Engineers.
The Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals.
The Royal New Zealand Infantry Corps.
The Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps.
The Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps.
The Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps.
The Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
The Royal New Zealand Army Dental Corps.
The Royal New Zealand Chaplains Department.
Born:
Loren Coleman
, cryptozoologist, in
Norfolk, Virginia
Wilko Johnson
, English rock musician, as John Wilkinson in
Canvey Island
(d.
2022
)
[10]
Died:
Jimmie Lunceford
, 45, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader
July 13
, 1947 (Sunday)
A
Douglas DC-3
on a charter flight from New York to
San Juan, Puerto Rico
made an emergency crash landing in a swamp in
Melbourne, Florida
following engine trouble. 14 of the 36 aboard were killed.
[11]
Cuban Labor Minister
Carlos Prío Socarrás
and Senator
Eduardo Chibás
fought a saber
duel
in the National Capitol in
Havana
. Chibás had been challenged to the duel by Socarrás after he harshly criticized the Labor Minister in a radio broadcast. Chibás sustained cuts to his face, left side and right arm while Socarrás was bruised in the right side.
[12]
July 14
, 1947 (Monday)
British authorities in Palestine imposed martial law on
Netanya
, where the two British soldiers were kidnapped two days earlier.
[13]
Tămădău Affair
: A number of deputies of the
National Peasants' Party
in
Romania
were arrested at the
Tămădău
airport near
Bucharest
as they were waiting for airplanes to transport them out of the country. They would be charged with trying to overthrow the government.
July 15
, 1947 (Tuesday)
A United Nations Security Council debate on a proposed international police force ended in a deadlock after the Americans and Soviets failed to agree on how much each of the participating states would be expected to contribute.
[13]
Issue #1 of the comic book
Young Romance
(
cover date
Sept-Oct) was published.
[14]
Created by
Joe Simon
and
Jack Kirby
, it is generally considered the first
romance comic
, and would run through 1975.
India got its independence from british rule
Born:
Peter Banks
, guitarist (
Yes
), in
Barnet
, London, England (d. 2013)
Died:
Walter Donaldson
, 54, American songwriter;
Brandon Hurst
, 80, English stage and film actor
July 16
, 1947 (Wednesday)
Hungarian Interior Minister
László Rajk
presented Parliament with a new electoral law containing several provisions beneficial to the Communists. Most significantly, the law extended the life of the Communist-dominated National Election Committee, which had the authority to decide which parties and candidates would be allowed to run.
[13]
The
House of Lords
passed a bill with unprecedented speed when the
Indian independence bill
was rushed through three readings and a report stage all in the same day. The bill now only required Royal Assent to become law.
[15]
July 17
, 1947 (Thursday)
1947 Ramdas ship disaster
: The Indian passenger ship SS
Ramdas
capsized ten miles off
Colaba
Point at
Bombay
, killing 625 people on board.
17-year-old Herbert E. Kolb, a
Fred Harvey Company
employee, lost his balance and fell 950 feet (290 m) to his death from the edge of Hopi Point in
Grand Canyon National Park
. The search for Kolb's body may have led to the discovery of
uranium ore
in the Grand Canyon.
[16]
Born:
Camilla
, Queen of the United Kingdom; née Camilla Shand in
London
, England
Died:
Raoul Wallenberg
, 34, Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and politician (died under mysterious circumstances in Moscow prison)
July 18
, 1947 (Friday)
The
SS
Exodus
reached
Haifa
and fought British naval authorities for an hour and a half in an effort to stop them from boarding. The 4,515 Jews aboard were transferred to three waiting ships to be sent to
Cyprus
. 3 Jews died in the hospital.
[1]
The
Indian Independence Act 1947
received Royal Assent in the United Kingdom.
The
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
was created by the
United Nations
and entrusted to the United States.
[7]
President Truman signed a new
Presidential Succession Act
, changing the law of succession to the presidency. The
Speaker of the House
would succeed the president when there was no vice-president.
[2]
The
Detroit Tigers
beat the visiting
New York Yankees
8–0 to snap the Yankees' 19-game winning streak, which tied the
American League
record set by the
Chicago White Sox
in 1906.
[17]
Born:
Steve Mahoney
, politician, in
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
, Canada
July 19
, 1947 (Saturday)
Gunmen attacked a meeting of the Burmese Council in the Council Chamber in
Rangoon
. Among the ten killed was the premier,
Aung San
.
[7]
The
University of Illinois
announced plans to begin large-scale manufacture of a
tuberculosis
vaccine known as
BCG
.
[18]
Born:
Bernie Leadon
, country rock musician (
The Flying Burrito Brothers
,
Eagles
), in
Minneapolis
,
Minnesota
;
Brian May
, rock musician and astrophysicist best known as the guitarist of
Queen
, in
Hampton, London
, England
Died:
Aung San
, 32, Premier of Burma (assassinated)
July 20
, 1947 (Sunday)
After a gun battle, Burmese police in Rangoon arrested 20 leaders of the
Myochit Party
, including former prime minister
U Saw
, on charges of planning the previous day's murders.
[7]
Born:
Gerd Binnig
, physicist and Nobel laureate, in
Frankfurt
, Germany;
Carlos Santana
, guitarist, in
Autlán
,
Mexico
July 21
, 1947 (Monday)
The Dutch, claiming violations of the
Linggadjati Agreement
, began what was termed a "police action" and launched
Operation Product
against the Republic of
Indonesia
to occupy large parts of
Java
and
Sumatra
.
At 6 p.m. Pacific Time, 3,500 engineers of the
Southern Pacific Railroad
went on strike for higher pay and changes in working conditions. A compromise settlement was reached seven hours after the strike began.
[19]
Born:
Co Adriaanse
, footballer and manager, in
Amsterdam
, Netherlands
July 22
, 1947 (Tuesday)
The Hungarian Liberty Party dissolved in protest of the government restrictions on political activity and free speech.
[20]
Born:
Albert Brooks
, actor, filmmaker and comedian, as Albert Lawrence Einstein in
Beverly Hills, California
;
Don Henley
, singer, songwriter and drummer (
Eagles
), in
Gilmer, Texas
July 23
, 1947 (Wednesday)
During Operation Product, Dutch forces captured the port city of
Cirebon
on Java.
[7]
It was announced that
American Federation of Musicians
head
James C. Petrillo
had agreed to drop his ban on amateur radio broadcasting and record-making by high school and military bands, as long as the broadcasts and records were for the exclusive use of schools, colleges and universities.
[21]
Born:
Spencer Christian
, television broadcaster, in
Charles City, Virginia
July 24
, 1947 (Thursday)
20,000 people marched in
Amsterdam
to protest the war in Indonesia.
[7]
A coal mine explosion in
West Frankfort, Illinois
killed 27 men.
[22]
The comedy film
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
starring
Cary Grant
,
Myrna Loy
and
Shirley Temple
premiered in New York City.
Born:
Peter Serkin
, pianist, in
New York City
(d. 2020)
July 25
, 1947 (Friday)
Hungarian President
Zoltán Tildy
dissolved the National Assembly and called new elections for August 31.
[23]
President Truman signed a joint resolution ending 60 wartime emergency laws and placing time limits on 124 others.
[7]
Andrew J. May
and
Murray Garsson
were given sentences of eight months to two years in federal prison for war bribes.
[2]
Died:
Kathleen Scott
, 69, British sculptor
July 26
, 1947 (Saturday)
France's National Assembly approved French participation in the
Marshall Plan
.
[20]
The
National Security Act of 1947
was enacted in the United States.
20-year-old student pilot Carl Lange, a
United States Navy
veteran of
World War II
, suffered a fatal
skull fracture
when he struck a power line while flying an
Aeronca Champion
aircraft and crashed in an
Ohio
hayfield. His instructor survived the crash. Stephen Koenig Armstrong and his sons, 16-year-old future
astronaut
Neil Armstrong
and his brother Dean, were driving nearby and attempted to render assistance. According to some accounts, Lange died in Neil Armstrong's arms.
[24]
Died:
Martha Ellen Young Truman
, 94, mother of US president
Harry S. Truman
July 27
, 1947 (Sunday)
Catherine Labouré
and
Louis de Montfort
were canonized by
Pope Pius XII
.
Born:
Bob Klein
, American football tight end, in
South Gate, California
;
Kazuyoshi Miura
, businessman, in
Yamanashi Prefecture
, Japan (d. 2008)
Died:
Ivan Regen
, 78, Slovenian biologist
July 28
, 1947 (Monday)
The Norwegian cargo ship
Ocean Liberty
exploded near the French port of
Brest
when a fire on board set off the cargo of
ammonium nitrate
, killing at least 26 people and injuring hundreds more.
[25]
English swimmer
Tom Blower
completed the first swimming of the
North Channel
between Ireland and Scotland, achieving the feat in 15 hours and 26 minutes.
July 29
, 1947 (Tuesday)
Dakota VT-CLA
, a
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
carrying medical supplies to the national government of Indonesia, was shot down over Ngoto,
Bantul
with only one survivor of the nine aboard. The Dutch initially denied complicity but would eventually pay restitution.
British authorities hanged three
Irgunists
for their part in the
Acre Prison break
.
[7]
A record crowd of 82,500 packed into West Ham Stadium, London, to witness a speedway test match between England and Australia.
Died:
George Bausewine
, 78, American baseball player and umpire;
Leo Stein
, 75, American art collector and critic
July 30
, 1947 (Wednesday)
Dutch forces landed at
Lubuk Pakam
and occupied it.
[7]
The British government suspended all military aid to the Netherlands.
[7]
Born:
William Atherton
, actor, in
Orange, Connecticut
;
Arnold Schwarzenegger
, bodybuilder, actor and 38th Governor of California, in
Thal, Styria
,
Austria
Died:
Joseph Cook
, 86, Australian politician and 6th Prime Minister of Australia;
Anton Lembede
, 33, South African activist and founding president of the
African National Congress Youth League
July 31
, 1947 (Thursday)
The Sergeants affair
: the bodies of the two British Army soldiers kidnapped on July 12 were found hanging from eucalyptus trees in
Bnei Zion
. Messages were pinned to their shirts saying they had been executed as spies. As one body was being taken down, a
booby trap
went off. Enraged British soldiers began a rampage in
Tel Aviv
, attacking civilians, looting and damaging shops. Five Jews were killed when a bus was fired upon.
[1]
[7]
Born:
Richard Griffiths
, actor, in
Thornaby-on-Tees
,
North Riding of Yorkshire
, England (d. 2013);
Joe Wilson
, politician, in
Charleston, South Carolina
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