1947 - selected events, not including my birth

[UTUSN]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947

* First issue of Der Spiegel

* Black Dahlia body found

* Cold War, Voice of America transmits

* rocket, first living things to enter space

* first Polaroid Land camera

* Volkswagen Beetle to U.S.

* International Monetary Fund initiates

* Truman Doctrine declared (Cold War starts)

* previously discovered Dead Sea Scrolls become known

* Jackie ROBINSON, 1st African American in MLB since 1880s

* Ba'ath Party established

* first Freedom Ride organized by Congress of Racial Equality

* Bernard BARUCH names the "Cold War"

* Doomsday Clock is introduced

* George MARSHALL presents the Marshall Plan

* Seaman Harold DAHL claims seeing 6 UFOs & names "Men in Black"

* Anne FRANK's diary published

* Roswell incident

* ship Exodus

* President TRUMAN signs creation of CIA, Dept of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, NSA

* the Kon Tiki shows prehistoric travel from S. America to Central Pacific islands possible

* subcontinent of India independence from British Empire (India vs Pakistan)

* moth causes malfunction in computer - "first actual case of 'bug' "

* U.S. Air Force, Dept of Army become branches of Dept of Defense

* House Un-American Activities committee begins "investigating" - PERSECUTING - Hollywood

* first modern use of word "computer"

* President TRUMAN delivers first televised White House address

* Chuck YEAGER breaks sound barrier

* Howard HUGHES flies 8 minutes in Spruce Goose, largest fixed wing ever

* Meet the Press debuts

* Soviet Union completes AK-47

* ATT's transistor begins the electronics era

* Screen Actors Guild implements anti-Communism loyalty oath

* "Hollywood Ten" blacklisted

* UN votes creation of State of Israel

* Ratheon produces first commercial microwave oven

* Movies Miracle on 34th Street, David LEAN's Great Expectations. BRANDO debuts in Streetcar (play).

*** BIRTHS ***

David BOWIE, Andrea MARTIN, Farrah FAWCETT, Dan QUAYLE, Peter STRAUSS, James Edward OLMOS, Alan THICKE, Kiki DEE, Rob REINER, Carole Bayer SAGER, John STOSSEL, Mitt ROMNEY, Glenn CLOSE, Elton John, Emmylou HARRIS, Camille PAGLIA, David LETTERMAN, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James WOODS, Iggy Pop, Jonathan PRYCE, Ronnie WOOD, Larry DAVID, Betty BUCKLEY, Shelley HACK, Orenthal SIMPSON, Arlo GUTHRIE, Carlos SANTANA, Brian MAY, Albert BROOKS, Don HENLEY, Arnold SCHARTZENEGGER, Danielle STEEL, Carol Moseley BRAUN, Cindy WILLIAMS, Barbara BACH, Jane CURTIN, Stephen KING, Mary Kay PLACE, Cheryl TIEGS, Meat Loaf, Kevin KLINE, Hillary CLINTON, Richard DREYFUSS, P. J. O'Rourke, Bill RICHARDSON, Joe WALSH, John LARROQUETTE, David MAMET, Gregg ALLMAN, Tom DASCLE, Ted DANSON, Tim MATHESON

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[NBachers]

1. And Hank Williams recorded "Move it on Over"

[rsdsharp]

2. Al Gionfriddo going back back back back back back back back back

on DiMaggio’s long drive in the Series against the Dodgers.

Bill Bevins giving up a no hitter in the ninth and losing in the same Series.

[Mister Ed]

3. Thanks, that's a fun and interesting read. One quibble, though:

Didn't Hughes' "Spruce Goose" spend only eight seconds aloft, rather than eight minutes?

[UTUSN]

4. Link says "minutes". This time not my reading/typing or non-existent proofreading!1

This stuff didn't come out of my head or personal knowledge - hah!1