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American
test pilot
Chuck Yeager
with the
Bell X-1
aircraft, in which he became the first man to break the
sound barrier
on October 14, 1947.
The following events occurred in
October 1947
:
October 1, 1947 (Wednesday)
Dragoljub Yovanovich, leader of the Serbian Peasant Party, went on trial in
Belgrade
on charges of espionage and treason.
[1]
The
North American F-86 Sabre
had its first flight.
Rita Hayworth
filed for divorce from
Orson Welles
.
[2]
Born:
Dave Arneson
, game designer and co-developer of
Dungeons & Dragons
, in
Hennepin County, Minnesota
(d. 2009);
Aaron Ciechanover
, biologist and Nobel laureate, in
Haifa
,
Mandatory Palestine
;
Stephen Collins
, actor, in
Des Moines, Iowa
;
Larry Lamb
, actor and radio presenter, in
Edmonton
, Middlesex, England
Died:
Olive Borden
, 41, American film and stage actress
October 2
, 1947 (Thursday)
The
Jewish Agency for Palestine
gave conditional approval to a plan to partition Palestine into a
Jewish and Arab state
.
[3]
The
National Labor Relations Board
issued its first temporary restraining order under the
Taft-Hartley Act
, ordering the
AFL
to end a 10-day strike in
Albany, New York
.
[4]
The
São Paulo Museum of Art
opened to the public in
São Paulo
,
Brazil
.
Died:
P. D. Ouspensky
, 69, Russian mathematician and esotericist
October 3
, 1947 (Friday)
Palestinian Arabs staged a peaceful one-day
general strike
to protest the plan to partition the territory.
[5]
Bill Bevens
of the
New York Yankees
came within one out of recording a
no-hitter
in Game 4 of the
World Series
against the
Brooklyn Dodgers
. With two out in the bottom of the ninth and a pair of Dodgers aboard on walks, pinch-hitter
Cookie Lavagetto
walloped a walk-off double to give Brooklyn a dramatic 3-2 victory.
[6]
Born:
Fred DeLuca
, businessman and co-founder of the
Subway
franchise of sandwich shops, in
Brooklyn
, New York (d. 2015);
Alain Mucchielli
, biochemist, in
Toulon
,
France
October 4
, 1947 (Saturday)
The Danish Lower Chamber of Parliament ousted Prime Minister
Knud Kristensen
when it passed a
vote of no confidence
, 80 to 66.
[7]
Born:
Ann Widdecombe
, politician and novelist, in
Bath, Somerset
, England
Died:
Max Planck
, 89, German theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate
October 5
, 1947 (Sunday)
US President
Harry S. Truman
made the first-ever televised address from the White House, urging Americans to voluntarily observe meatless Tuesdays and poultryless Thursdays in order to make more food available for hungry Europeans.
[8]
[9]
The
Actors Studio
was founded in New York City.
Born:
Brian Johnson
, lead singer of rock band
AC/DC
, in
Dunston, Gateshead
, England
October 6
, 1947 (Monday)
The Canadian government announced that it would double its acceptance of European displaced persons to 20,000.
[10]
The
New York Yankees
defeated the
Brooklyn Dodgers
5-2 to win the
1947 World Series
in seven games.
Born:
Gail Farrell
, singer and songwriter, in
Salinas, California
Died:
Leevi Madetoja
, 60, Finnish composer
October 7
, 1947 (Tuesday)
Pakistan
became the first member of the United Nations to line up with the Arab states in opposition to the Palestine partition plan.
[11]
UK Prime Minister
Clement Attlee
performed a
cabinet reshuffle
. New appointments included
Christopher Addison
as
Lord Privy Seal
,
Kenneth Younger
as
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
and
Arthur Henderson
as
Secretary of State for Air
.
Born:
Pip Williams
, record producer, arranger and guitarist, in
Hillingdon
,
Middlesex
, England
October 8
, 1947 (Wednesday)
At the United Nations, the
Soviet bloc
threw its support to the Palestine partition plan.
[12]
Born:
Stephen Shore
, photographer, in
New York City
October 9
, 1947 (Thursday)
In and over
Wilmington, Delaware
, a conversation was held between telephones in an airplane and a car for the first time.
[13]
Indonesian farmer
Mat Taram bin Sa'al
killed eleven people in a stabbing rampage on a train and a
kongsi
near
Bangi, Malaya
.
The biopic
Song of Love
starring
Katharine Hepburn
as the pianist
Clara Wieck
and
Paul Henreid
as the composer
Robert Schumann
was released.
The stage musical
High Button Shoes
with music by
Jule Styne
, lyrics by
Sammy Cahn
and book by
George Abbott
and
Stephen Longstreet
premiered on Broadway at the
New Century Theatre
.
Born:
France Gall
, singer, in
Paris
, France (d. 2018)
October 10
, 1947 (Friday)
The American flag was flown at half-mast as some 3,000
Pearl Harbor
war dead arrived in
San Francisco
aboard the military transport
Honda Knot
. The ship's arrival marked the tangible beginning of Operation Taps, a program to rebury over 250,000 known war dead from overseas on American soil.
[14]
The
Rodgers and Hammerstein
stage musical
Allegro
opened on Broadway at the
Majestic Theatre
.
October 11
, 1947 (Saturday)
Yugoslavia
broke off diplomatic relations with
Chile
over allegations that Yugoslavia had sponsored communist plotting in South America.
[8]
October 12
, 1947 (Sunday)
Municipal elections in
Rome
resulted in the continued leadership of the Communist-led People's Bloc, which edged out the Christian Democrats by less than 1% of the vote.
[15]
A special mission of the United Nations recommended establishment of a "government of
Western Samoa
" to give a larger measure of autonomy to the territory administered by
New Zealand
.
[16]
Died:
Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton
, 94, British general
October 13
, 1947 (Monday)
The
1st National Hockey League All-Star Game
was held at
Maple Leaf Gardens
in
Toronto
. A team of all-stars defeated the
Toronto Maple Leafs
, 4-3.
The children's TV puppet show
Kukla, Fran and Ollie
premiered as
Junior Jamboree
on
WBKB
in Chicago, Illinois. It would run for ten years.
Born:
Sammy Hagar
, rock musician and entrepreneur, in
Salinas, California
Died:
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
, 88, British economist and social reformer
October 14
, 1947 (Tuesday)
The
Bell X-1
made the first
supersonic
flight of a piloted airplane by traveling 700 miles per hour (1,100 km/h) (Mach 1.06 at 43,000 feet (13,000 m) altitude) over
Muroc Dry Lake
, California, with Captain
Charles E. Yeager
at the controls. The
sound barrier
was broken.
[17]
[18]
Born:
Nikolai Volkoff
, professional wrestler, as Josip Nikolai Peruzović in the
Socialist Republic of Croatia
(d. 2018)
October 15
, 1947 (Wednesday)
The
Draft
Eisenhower for President League in Washington announced its slogan: "I Like Ike".
[19]
Censorship was lifted in
Finland
after a law passed during the
Winter War
in 1939 expired.
[10]
October 16
, 1947 (Thursday)
The New York State Court of Appeals ruled that a false charge of a person being a Communist or a communist sympathizer was basis for a libel action.
[20]
Born:
Bob Weir
, singer, songwriter, guitarist and founding member of the
Grateful Dead
, in
San Francisco
, California
October 17
, 1947 (Friday)
Britain granted independence to
Burma
effective in January 1948.
[2]
Born:
Gene Green
, politician, in
Houston
,
Texas
;
Michael McKean
, actor, comedian and musician, in
New York City
Died:
John Halliday
, 67, American actor
October 18
, 1947 (Saturday)
American Federation of Musicians
President
James Petrillo
banned the making of recordings and transcriptions by the union's 225,000 AFM members. The ban was to become operative December 31.
[8]
Born:
Job Cohen
, politician, in
Haarlem
, Netherlands;
James H. Fallon
, neuroscientist, in the United States,
Joe Morton
, American actor
October 19
, 1947 (Sunday)
Municipal elections were held in France. The Gaullist Reunion of the French people won with 40% of the popular vote, compared to 30% for the Communists.
[21]
Czechoslovakia's Social Democrats announced that they had merged into one national party and would continue to resist any merger with the Communists.
[22]
Born:
Giorgio Cavazzano
, comic strip artist, in
Venice
, Italy;
Gunnar Staalesen
, writer, in
Bergen
,
Norway
October 20
, 1947 (Monday)
The
RuSHA trial
began at
Nuremberg
. 14 officials of various SS organizations including
RuSHA
went on trial for their racial and resettlement activities.
October 21
, 1947 (Tuesday)
Brazil
and
Chile
severed diplomatic relations with the USSR.
[8]
A new session of British Parliament was opened with a surprise announcement from
George VI
during the
King's Speech
that legislation would be introduced to curb the powers of the
House of Lords
.
[23]
October 22
, 1947 (Wednesday)
The
Pakistani tribal invasion
of
Jammu and Kashmir
began.
Iranian Parliament
voted 102-2 to reject an oil agreement signed with Russia that would have given the Soviet Union a 51 percent share in a Soviet-Iran oil company. Parliament then approved Prime Minister
Ahmad Qavam
's bill to initiate a five-year oil exploration program from which all foreign capital would be barred.
[24]
Born:
Ed Welch
, television composer, in England
Died:
Friedrich Schubert
, 50, German sergeant (executed for war crimes committed during the Nazi occupation of Greece)
October 23
, 1947 (Thursday)
Gary Cooper
,
Robert Montgomery
and
Ronald Reagan
were among the parade of witnesses who testified before the House Un-American Activities Commission in Washington. Cooper testified, "I've turned down quite a few scripts given to me because I thought they were tinged with communist propaganda."
[25]
Born:
Greg Ridley
, rock bassist (
Humble Pie
), in
Carlisle, Cumbria
, England (d. 2003)
October 24
, 1947 (Friday)
United Airlines Flight 608
, a
Douglas DC-6
airliner flying from Los Angeles to Chicago, crashed southeast of
Bryce Canyon Airport
in
Utah
. All 52 aboard were killed. This crash marked the first time a plane would be reconstructed from the wreckage to determine the cause of the disaster; a design flaw was found in the cabin heater system that caused a fire to break out on board.
Born:
Kevin Kline
, actor, in
St. Louis
, Missouri
Died:
Dudley Digges
, 68, Irish actor
October 25
, 1947 (Saturday)
President Truman declared
Maine
a disaster area as forest fires caused 17 deaths and an estimated $30 million in damage.
[26]
The
Humpty Dumpty
pinball machine by
Gottlieb
was released. It was the first pinball machine to include flippers.
Born:
Glenn Tipton
, heavy metal guitarist (
Judas Priest
), in
Blackheath
, England
October 26
, 1947 (Sunday)
A
Douglas DC-4
crashed into Mt.
Hymettus
while on approach to
Hassani Airport
in a severe rainstorm. All 44 on board were killed.
[27]
Pan Am Flight 923
, a Douglas DC-4 flying from
Seattle
, Washington to
Juneau, Alaska
, crashed on
Annette Island
, killing all 18 on board. The cause of the crash was never determined.
Maharaja
Hari Singh
, ruler of the
princely state
of
Jammu and Kashmir
, executed the
Instrument of Accession
agreeing to accede to the Dominion of India.
Born:
Hillary Clinton
, politician and First Lady of the United States, née Hillary Rodham in
Chicago
, Illinois;
Trevor Joyce
, poet, in
Dublin
, Ireland
October 27
, 1947 (Monday)
India air-lifted troops to defend
Jammu and Kashmir
(the start of
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
)
The USSR joined the
International Association of Athletics Federations
, leaving no obstacles to participation in the 1948 Olympic Games.
[28]
The game show
You Bet Your Life
hosted by
Groucho Marx
premiered on
ABC Radio
.
Born:
Terry A. Anderson
, American journalist, in
Lorain, Ohio
(d. 2024)
[29]
October 28
, 1947 (Tuesday)
Folketing elections
were held in
Denmark
. The
Social Democratic Party
led by
Hans Hedtoft
remained the largest party, winning 57 of 148 seats.
1947 Oregon Beechcraft Bonanza crash
: Oregon Governor
Earl Snell
, State Senate President
Marshall E. Cornett
and Oregon Secretary of State
Robert S. Farrell, Jr.
were killed in a crash of a
Beechcraft Bonanza
in stormy weather in rural
Lake County, Oregon
.
Died:
Marshall E. Cornett
, 48, American politician (plane crash);
Robert S. Farrell, Jr.
, 41, politician (plane crash);
Earl Snell
, 52, American politician and 23rd Governor of Oregon (plane crash)
October 29
, 1947 (Wednesday)
The USSR began a purge of non-communist officials in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany.
[10]
In Washington, the presidential committee on
civil rights
delivered a 178-page report to the White House stating, "The American ideal still awaits complete realization." The document made thirty-five specific recommendations, including asking the President to create a permanent Federal commission on civil rights.
[30]
President Truman issued a statement declaring, "I am going to read and study this report with great care and I recommend to all my countrymen that they do the same thing."
[31]
Born:
Richard Dreyfuss
, actor, in
Brooklyn
, New York;
Mirza Khazar
, author, anchorman and journalist, in
Göyçay
,
Azerbaijan
SSR (d. 2020)
Died:
Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston
, 83, 22nd and 24th First Lady of the United States
October 30
, 1947 (Thursday)
23 nations in
Geneva
signed the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT).
Born:
Timothy B. Schmit
, bass player and singer (
Poco
,
Eagles
), in
Oakland, California
October 31
, 1947 (Friday)
Former Romanian Prime Minister
Iuliu Maniu
confessed at his
show trial
that he'd told the American diplomat
Burton Y. Berry
that he intended to form a Romanian resistance government abroad.
[32]
The Greek government announced emergency tax measures to raise an additional 600 million drachmas by June 30, 1948. The taxes were held to be necessary to meet increased military expenditures and to look after some 300,000 refugees from the
civil war
.
[33]
Born:
Herman Van Rompuy
, Prime Minister of Belgium from 2008 to 2009, in
Etterbeek
,
Belgium
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