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1947 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2025. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1947 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1947
- January 22, 1947 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
- March 25, 1947 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
- July 6, 1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
- July 10, 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
- August 2, 1947 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
- September 16, 1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930 killed.
- October 24, 1947 – Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
- November 6, 1947 – Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
- November 18, 1947 – The Ballantyne’s Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
- November 25, 1947 – Red Scare: The “Hollywood Ten” are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
Who Were Born On 1947?
- January 27, 1947 – Vyron Polydoras, Greek politician; Greek Minister for Public Order
- February 5, 1947 – Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver and sportscaster
- February 17, 1947 – Helge Jordal, Norwegian actor and singer
- March 17, 1947 – Yury Chernavsky, Russian-American songwriter and producer
- May 27, 1947 – Felix Dennis, English poet and publisher, founded Dennis Publishing (d. 2014)
- September 5, 1947 – Mel Collins, Manx saxophonist and flute player (Kokomo)
- October 3, 1947 – Anne Dorte of Rosenborg (d. 2014)
- November 13, 1947 – Gene Garber, American baseball player
- November 24, 1947 – Dwight Schultz, American actor
- December 7, 1947 – Anne Fine, English author