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Events from the year 1947 in the United States .
President Truman on opening day of the baseball season, 1947 Sam Rayburn (D -Texas ) (until January 3)Joseph William Martin Jr. (R -Massachusetts ) (starting January 3)Alben W. Barkley (D -Kentucky ) (until January 3)Wallace H. White Jr. (R -Maine ) (starting January 3)
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governor of Alabama : Chauncey Sparks (Democratic ) (until January 20), Jim Folsom (Democratic ) (starting January 20)Governor of Arizona : Sidney Preston Osborn (Democratic )Governor of Arkansas : Benjamin Travis Laney (Democratic )Governor of California : Earl Warren (Republican )Governor of Colorado : John Charles Vivian (Republican ) (until January 14), William Lee Knous (Democratic ) (starting January 14)Governor of Connecticut : Charles W. Snow (Democratic ) (until January 8), James L. McConaughy (Republican ) (starting January 8)Governor of Delaware : Walter W. Bacon (Republican )Governor of Florida : Millard F. Caldwell (Democratic )Governor of Georgia :
Governor of Idaho : Arnold Williams (Democratic ) (until January 6), C. A. Robins (Republican ) (starting January 6)Governor of Illinois : Dwight H. Green (Republican )Governor of Indiana : Ralph F. Gates (Republican )Governor of Iowa : Robert D. Blue (Republican )Governor of Kansas : Andrew F. Schoeppel (Republican ) (until January 13), Frank Carlson (Republican ) (starting January 13)Governor of Kentucky : Simeon S. Willis (Republican ) (until December 9), Earle C. Clements (Democratic ) (starting December 9)Governor of Louisiana : Jimmie H. Davis (Democratic )Governor of Maine : Horace A. Hildreth (Republican )Governor of Maryland : Herbert R. O'Conor (Democratic ) (until January 3), William Preston Lane Jr. (Democratic ) (starting January 3)Governor of Massachusetts : Maurice J. Tobin (Democratic ) (until January 2), Robert F. Bradford (Republican ) (starting January 2)Governor of Michigan : Harry Kelly (Republican ) (until January 1), Kim Sigler (Republican ) (starting January 1)Governor of Minnesota : Edward John Thye (Republican ) (until January 8), Luther W. Youngdahl (Republican ) (starting January 8)Governor of Mississippi : Fielding L. Wright (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : Phil M. Donnelly (Democratic )Governor of Montana : Sam C. Ford (Republican )Governor of Nebraska : Dwight Griswold (Republican ) (until January 9), Val Peterson (Republican ) (starting January 9)Governor of Nevada : Vail M. Pittman (Democratic )Governor of New Hampshire : Charles M. Dale (Republican )Governor of New Jersey : Walter Evans Edge (Republican ) (until January 21), Alfred E. Driscoll (Republican ) (starting January 21)Governor of New Mexico : John J. Dempsey (Democratic ) (until January 1), Thomas J. Mabry (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Governor of New York : Thomas Dewey (Republican )Governor of North Carolina : R. Gregg Cherry (Democratic )Governor of North Dakota : Fred G. Aandahl (Republican )Governor of Ohio : Frank J. Lausche (Democratic ) (until January 13), Thomas J. Herbert (Republican ) (starting January 13)Governor of Oklahoma : Robert S. Kerr (Democratic ) (until January 13), Roy J. Turner (Democratic ) (starting January 13)Governor of Oregon : Earl Snell (Republican ) (until October 30), John H. Hall (Republican ) (starting October 30)Governor of Pennsylvania :
Governor of Rhode Island : John Orlando Pastore (Democratic )Governor of South Carolina : Ransome Judson Williams (Democratic ) (until January 21), Strom Thurmond (Democratic ) (starting January 21)Governor of South Dakota : Merrill Q. Sharpe (Republican ) (until January 7), George T. Mickelson (Republican ) (starting January 7)Governor of Tennessee : Jim Nance McCord (Democratic )Governor of Texas : Coke R. Stevenson (Democratic ) (until January 21), Beauford H. Jester (Democratic ) (starting January 21)Governor of Utah : Herbert B. Maw (Democratic )Governor of Vermont : Mortimer R. Proctor (Republican ) (until January 9), Ernest W. Gibson Jr. (Republican ) (starting January 9)Governor of Virginia : William M. Tuck (Democratic )Governor of Washington : Monrad C. Wallgren (Democratic )Governor of West Virginia : Clarence W. Meadows (Democratic )Governor of Wisconsin : Walter S. Goodland (Republican ) (until March 12), Oscar Rennebohm (Republican ) (starting March 12)Governor of Wyoming : Lester C. Hunt (Democratic )
Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : Leven H. Ellis (Democratic ) (until January 20), James C. Inzer (Democratic ) (starting January 20)Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : James Lavesque Shaver (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Nathan Green Gordon (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of California : Frederick F. Houser (Republican ) (until January 7), Goodwin Knight (Republican ) (starting January 7)Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : William Eugene Higby (Republican ) (until January 14), Homer L. Pearson (Republican ) (starting January 14)Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : vacant (until January 8), James C. Shannon (Republican ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : Elbert N. Carvel (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Georgia : Melvin E. Thompson (Democratic ) (starting January 14 and ending March 18), vacant (starting March 18)Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : A. R. McCabe (Democratic ) (until January 6), Donald S. Whitehead (Democratic ) (starting January 6)Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Hugh W. Cross (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Richard T. James (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Kenneth A. Evans (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Jess C. Denious Sr. (Republican ) (until January 13), Frank L. Hagaman (Republican ) (starting January 13)Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Kenneth H. Tuggle (Republican ) (until December 9), Lawrence Wetherby (Democratic ) (starting December 9)Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : J. Emile Verret (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : vacant (starting January 2), Arthur W. Coolidge (Republican ) (starting January 2)Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Vernon J. Brown (Republican ) (until January 1), Eugene C. Keyes (Republican ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : C. Elmer Anderson (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : vacantLieutenant Governor of Missouri : Walter Naylor Davis (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Ernest T. Eaton (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Roy W. Johnson (Republican ) (until January 9), Robert B. Crosby (Republican ) (starting January 9)Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : vacant (until January), Clifford A. Jones (Democratic ) (starting January)Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : James B. Jones (Democratic ) (until January 1), Joseph Montoya (Democratic ) (starting January 1)Lieutenant Governor of New York : Joseph R. Hanley (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Lynton Y. Ballentine (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Clarence P. Dahl (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : George D. Nye (Democratic ) (until January 13), Paul M. Herbert (Republican ) (starting January 13)Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : James E. Berry (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : John C. Bell Jr. (Republican ) (until January 21), Daniel B. Strickler (Republican ) (starting January 21)Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : vacant (until month and day unknown), John S. McKiernan (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : vacant (until January 21), George Bell Timmerman Jr. (Democratic ) (starting January 21)Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : Sioux K. Grigsby (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Larry Morgan (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), George Oliver Benton (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Texas : John Lee Smith (Democratic ) (until January 21), Allan Shivers (Democratic ) (starting January 21)Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Lee E. Emerson (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Lewis Preston Collins II (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Washington : Victor A. Meyers (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Oscar Rennebohm (Republican )
January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia ", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles . The case is never solved.
February 3 – P.L. Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the House of Representatives and Senate press galleries.
February 17 – Cold War : Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union .
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February 21 – Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", his Polaroid Land Camera , to a meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York City .
March 6 – USS Newport News , the first completely air-conditioned warship, is launched in Newport News, Virginia .
March 13 – The 19th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Jack Benny , is held at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles . William Wyler 's The Best Years of Our Lives Best Motion Picture and Wyler's second Best Director award.
March 25 – A coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois , kills 111 miners. July 4 – Three crew members aboard United Airlines Flight 105 reported seeing multiple unidentified objects in the skies over the Pacific Northwest
July 7 – A supposedly downed extraterrestrial spacecraft is reportedly found in the Roswell UFO incident , near Roswell, New Mexico , which will be written about by Stanton T. Friedman and many others. In Arizona, the Rhodes UFO photographs are taken, purportedly showing "shoe-heel"-shaped object in the skies over Phoenix.
July 11 – A hoaxed flying disc is recovered in Twin Falls
July 18 – President Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law, which places the speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate next in the line of succession after the vice president.
July 26 – Cold War : President Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into law, creating the Central Intelligence Agency , the Department of Defense , the Joint Chiefs of Staff , and the National Security Council .
August – Fernwood Park race riot in Chicago.
August 1 – A B-25 departing McChord Field bound for Hamilton Field crashes near Kelso, Washington , killing both pilot and co-pilot. It is subsequently revealed that plane was returning from investigating a UFO sighting at Maury Island . Seaman Harold Dahl claims to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island in Puget Sound , Washington on June 21 and reports the first modern so-called "Men in Black " encounter.
August 29 – US announces the discovery of plutonium fission , suitable for nuclear power generation.
September 17–21 – The 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane in southeastern Florida , and also in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, causes widespread damage and kills 51 people.
September 17 – Office of Indian Affairs renamed Bureau of Indian Affairs .
September 18 – Most provisions of the National Security Act go into effect, reorganizing the military to form the National Military Establishment (later the Department of Defense ) with subordinate Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; creating the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council ; and establishing the Secretary of Defense .
September 26 – U.S. Air Force is made a separate branch of the military.
September 27 – Walt Disney Productions ' ninth feature film, Fun and Fancy Free package films to be released through the 1940s and notably features Walt Disney 's final voice role as Mickey Mouse . October 14: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 Girls sunbathing at Cabrillo Beach , California, Dec. 28, 1947 October–November – Great Fires of 1947 : Forest fires in Maine consume more than 200,000 acres of wooded land statewide, including over 17,000 acres on Mount Desert Island alone. 16 persons are killed and more than 1,000 homes destroyed in the blazes, with total property damage exceeding $23 million.
October – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigations into communism in Hollywood .
October 6 – World Series games are broadcast on television for the first time.
October 14 – The United States Air Force test pilot Captain Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 rocket plane faster than the speed of sound , the first time that this has been accomplished in level flight, or climbing.
October 20 – Pakistan establishes diplomatic relations with the United States .
November 1 – U.S. Caribbean Command designated.
November 2 – In California , designer Howard Hughes pilots the maiden flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat known as "Spruce Goose", the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built; the flight lasts only eight minutes and the craft is never flown again.
November 6 – The program Meet the Press NBC -TV network in the United States.
November 24 – Red Scare : The U.S. House of Representatives votes 346–17 to approve citations of Contempt of Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10 , after the ten men refuse to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of communist influences in the movie business. (The ten men are blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios on the following day).
December 3 – The Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire Broadway theater .
December 6 – Arturo Toscanini conducts a concert performance of the first half of Giuseppe Verdi 's opera Otello Shakespeare 's play Othello NBC Radio. The second half of the opera is broadcast a week later.
December 22 – The first practical electronic transistor is demonstrated by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain working under William Shockley at AT&T 's Bell Labs . Andrea Martin Jill Eikenberry Jonathan Banks Glynn Turman Farrah Fawcett Dan Quayle Edward James Olmos February 1 – Jessica Savitch , American journalist (d. 1983 )February 2 – Farrah Fawcett , American actress (Charlie's Angels 2009 )February 3
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February 5 – Darrell Waltrip , American race car driver, broadcasterFebruary 7 – Wayne Allwine , American voice actor (d. 2009 )February 8 – J. Richard Gott , American astronomer and academicFebruary 9
February 11 – Roy Moore , American politicianFebruary 13 – Mike Krzyzewski , American basketball coachFebruary 15
February 18 – Dennis DeYoung , American rock musician (Styx )[ 6] February 20 – Peter Strauss , American actorFebruary 24
February 25
Rob Reiner Mitt Romney Glenn Close Tom Clancy David Letterman James Woods April 1
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April 4 – Ray Fosse , baseball player and broadcaster (died 2021 )[ 8] April 6 – John Ratzenberger , American actor (Cheers April 8
April 9 – Ken Lewis , CEO, president and chairman of Bank of America April 11
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April 19 – Murray Perahia , American pianistApril 20 – Andrew Tobias , American journalist and authorApril 21 – Iggy Pop , American rock musicianApril 22 – Norma Harris , American sprinterApril 25
April 28 – Ken St. Andre , American game designer and authorApril 29
Tommy James , American rock singer, producerJim Ryun , American middle-distance runner and CongressmanRichard Jenkins Ken Westerfield May 3 – Richard Jenkins , American actorMay 4 – Theda Skocpol , American sociologistMay 6 – Martha Nussbaum , American philosopherMay 8
May 10 – Jay Ferguson , American singer-songwriter, keyboard player (Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne )May 11 – Butch Trucks , American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band 2017 )May 13 – Stephen R. Donaldson , American novelistMay 14 – Tamara Dobson , African-American actress, fashion model (d. 2006 )May 16
May 23 – Ken Westerfield , American disc sports (Frisbee) pioneer, athlete, showman and promoterMay 27 – Peter DeFazio , American politicianRobert Englund Jimmie Walker Richard Lewis June 3
June 5 – Laurie Anderson , American experimental performance artist, composer and musicianJune 6 – Robert Englund , American actor, director and singerJune 7
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June 14 – Barry Melton , American rock musician (Country Joe and the Fish June 15 – John Hoagland , American war photographer (d. 1984 )June 16 – Al Cowlings , American football playerJune 19 – Linda Myers , American archerJune 20 – Candy Clark , American actressJune 21
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June 26 – Edd Hargett , American football quarterbackJune 28 – Mark Helprin , American writerJune 29
Larry David O. J. Simpson Albert Brooks Arnold Schwarzenegger July 1 – Marc Benno , American singer, songwriter and guitaristJuly 2 – Larry David , American actor, writer, producer and director (Curb Your Enthusiasm July 3
July 4 – Jim Minshall , American baseball playerJuly 5
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July 8 – Bobby Sowell , American pianist and composerJuly 9 – O. J. Simpson , American football player, sportscaster, actor and author, convicted of causing wrongful death and felony (d. 2024 )July 10 – Arlo Guthrie , American folk singer (Alice's Restaurant July 12 – Loren Coleman , American cryptozoologist, authorJuly 15 – Roky Erickson , American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2019 )July 16
July 19 – Bernie Leadon , American musician, songwriterJuly 22
July 23 – Spencer Christian , American television personalityJuly 24 – Peter Serkin , American pianist (d. 2020 )July 25 – Scott Shannon , American disc jockeyJuly 27 – Bob Klein , American football playerJuly 30
July 31 – Joe Wilson , American politicianCindy Williams Barbara Bach Stephen King Meat Loaf September 1 – Al Green , politicianSeptember 5 – Buddy Miles , African-American drummer, singer and composer (d. 2008 )September 6
September 8 – Benjamin Orr , singer-songwriter (d. 2000 )September 9 – Freddy Weller , singer-songwriter[ 13] September 14 – William B. Taylor Jr. , diplomatSeptember 19 – Steve Bartlett , politicianSeptember 20
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September 22 – Norma McCorvey , abortion plaintiff (Roe v. Wade 2017 )September 23
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September 26 – Lynn Anderson , American country-music singer (d. 2015 )September 27 – Meat Loaf , American rock singer, actorHillary Clinton Richard Dreyfuss October 1 – Stephen Collins , American actorOctober 2 – Ward Churchill , American author and activistOctober 3
October 6 – Gail Farrell , American singerOctober 8 – Stephen Shore , American photographerOctober 12 – Chris Wallace , American journalistOctober 13 – Sammy Hagar , American rock musician (Van Halen October 16 – Bob Weir , American rock guitaristOctober 17
October 18 – James H. Fallon , American neuroscientist (d. 2023 )October 23 – Frank DiLeo , American actor and music industry executive (d. 2011 )October 24 – Kevin Kline , American actorOctober 26 – Hillary Clinton , First Lady of the United States, 67th Secretary of State October 27 – Terry A. Anderson , American journalist and hostage (d. 2024 )October 29 – Richard Dreyfuss , American actorOctober 30 – Timothy B. Schmit , American musicianJoe Mantegna Joe Walsh Dwight Schultz November 3
November 5 – Robert Zimmer , American mathematician and academic administrator (d. 2023 )[ 16] November 7 – Bernhard Goetz , American shooter in 1984 subway shooting November 8
November 9 – Phil Driscoll , American Christian musician, trumpet playerNovember 10 – Glen Buxton , American rock guitarist (d. 1997 )November 12 – Ron Bryant , American baseball playerNovember 13
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November 17 – Will Vinton , American animator, filmmaker (d. 2018 )November 18
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November 20 – Joe Walsh , American rock singer, songwriter and guitaristNovember 24 – Dwight Schultz , American actor (The A-Team November 25 – John Larroquette , American actor (Night Court November 28 – Gustav Hasford , American marine, novelist, journalist, poet and book thief (d. 1993 )November 30
Gregg Allman Vincent Matthews January 3 – Gus Wickie , singer and voice actor (b. 1885 )January 7 – Marie Louise Obenauer , labor laws pioneer (b. 1870 )January 10 – Arthur E. Andersen , accountant (b. 1885 )January 14 – Bill Hewitt , football player (Chicago Bears ) and member of Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1909 )January 16
January 17 – Janet Cook Lewis , portrait painter, librarian, and bookbinder (b. 1855 )January 20
January 25 – Al Capone , gangster (b. 1899 )January 26 – Grace Moore , operatic soprano, in plane crash (b. 1898 )February 12
February 22 – Willie Franklin Pruitt , poet and activist (b. 1865 )March 8 – Victor Potel , character actor and comedian (b. 1889 )March 9 – Carrie Chapman Catt , women's suffrage leader (b. 1859 )March 12 – Winston Churchill , novelist (b. 1871 )[ 23] March 18 – William C. Durant , automobile pioneer (b. 1861 )March 21 – Homer Lusk Collyer, one of the reclusive Collyer brothers (b. 1881 )March 28 – Johnny Evers , baseball player (Chicago Cubs ) and member of MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1881 )April 7 – Henry Ford , automobile manufacturer (b. 1863 )April 8 – Langley Collyer, one of the reclusive Collyer brothers (b. 1885 )April 10 – John Ince , actor (b. 1878 )April 14 – Herbert Spencer Jennings , zoologist (b. 1868 )April 24 – Willa Cather , novelist (b. 1873 )April 29 – Irving Fisher , economist (b. 1867 )May 3 – Harry Holman , character actor (b. 1872 )May 6 – Louise Homer , operatic contralto (b. 1871 )May 8 – Harry Gordon Selfridge , department store magnate (b. 1858 )May 14 – John R. Sinnock , eighth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint (b. 1888 )May 18 – Lucile Gleason , actress (b. 1888 )May 30 – Baron Georg von Trapp , Austrian naval officer, patriarch of the Von Trapp Family Singers (b. 1880 )May 31 – Adrienne Ames , actress (b. 1907 )June 9 – J. Warren Kerrigan , actor (b. 1879 )June 11 – Richard Hönigswald , Hungarian-born philosopher (b. 1875 )June 17 – Maxwell Perkins , literary editor (b. 1884 )June 20 – Bugsy Siegel , gangster (b. 1906 )June 22 – Jim Tully , vagabond, pugilist and writer (b. 1886 )July 12 – Jimmie Lunceford , African-American jazz saxophonist and bandleader, of cardiac arrest (b. 1902 )July 15
August 3 – Vic Willis , baseball player (Boston Braves ) and member of MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1876 )September 1 – Frederick Russell Burnham , father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861 )September 18 – Bert Kalmar , lyricist (b. 1884 )September 20
September 21 – Harry Carey , film actor (b. 1878 )October 1
October 3 – Ernest L. Riebau , politician (b. 1895 )October 17 – John Halliday , actor (b. 1880 )October 29 – Frances Cleveland , First Lady , wife of President Grover Cleveland (b. 1864 )November 3
November 4 – Mabel Van Buren , actress (b. 1878 )November 20 – Walter J. Mathews , California architect (b. 1850 )November 28 – W. E. Lawrence , silent film actor (b. 1896 )December 7 – Nicholas Murray Butler , polymath, president of Columbia University and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862 )December 22 – Edward Nelson Woodruff , politician (b. 1862 )
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