October 1947

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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)

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October 2, 1947 (Thursday)

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October 3, 1947 (Friday)

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October 4, 1947 (Saturday)

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October 5, 1947 (Sunday)

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  • 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)

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October 7, 1947 (Tuesday)

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October 8, 1947 (Wednesday)

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October 9, 1947 (Thursday)

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October 10, 1947 (Friday)

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  • 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)

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  • Yugoslavia broke off diplomatic relations with Chile over allegations that Yugoslavia had sponsored communist plotting in South America.[8]

October 12, 1947 (Sunday)

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  • 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)

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October 14, 1947 (Tuesday)

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October 15, 1947 (Wednesday)

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  • 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)

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  • 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)

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October 18, 1947 (Saturday)

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October 19, 1947 (Sunday)

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  • 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)

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  • 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)

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October 22, 1947 (Wednesday)

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  • 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)

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October 24, 1947 (Friday)

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October 25, 1947 (Saturday)

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October 26, 1947 (Sunday)

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October 27, 1947 (Monday)

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October 28, 1947 (Tuesday)

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October 29, 1947 (Wednesday)

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  • 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)

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October 31, 1947 (Friday)

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  • 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

References

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  1. ^ Leonard, Thomas M. (1977). Day By Day: The Forties. New York: Facts On File, Inc. p. 728. ISBN 0-87196-375-2.
  2. ^ a b Mercer, Derrik, ed. (1989). Chronicle of the 20th Century. London: Chronicle Communications Ltd. p. 662. ISBN 9-780582-039193.
  3. ^ Moore, William (October 3, 1947). "Jews Accept Plan to Split Up Palestine". Chicago Daily Tribune. Chicago: 1.
  4. ^ Leonard, p. 731.
  5. ^ Leonard, p. 730.
  6. ^ "october 3, 1947 World Series Game 4". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  7. ^ "Government of Danes is Ousted 80 to 66". The Montreal Gazette: 1. October 4, 1947.
  8. ^ a b c d Yust, Walter, ed. (1948). 1948 Britannica Book of the Year. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. p. 13.
  9. ^ "First presidential speech on TV". History. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  10. ^ a b c "1947". MusicAndHistory.com. Archived from the original on August 28, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  11. ^ "Pakistan Joins Opponents of Palestine Split". Chicago Daily Tribune. Chicago: 11. October 8, 1947.
  12. ^ "Reds Back Palestine Splitup". The Pittsburgh Press: 1. October 8, 1947.
  13. ^ "Chronomedia: 1947". Terra Media. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  14. ^ "Nation's Flags Fly at Half Mast As First War Dead Reach Home". Brooklyn Eagle. Brooklyn: 1. October 10, 1947.
  15. ^ Leonard, p. 732.
  16. ^ "U.N. Group Asks More Self-Rule in West Samoa". Chicago Daily Tribune. Chicago: 7. October 13, 1947.
  17. ^ Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Grimwood, James M. "Part 1 (A) Major Events Leading to Project Mercury March 1944 through December 1957". Project Mercury - A Chronology. NASA Special Publication-4001. NASA. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  18. ^ Anderson, John; Passman, Richard (2014). X-15: The World's Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age. Zenith Press. p. 34. ISBN 9781610589277.
  19. ^ Leonard, p. 733.
  20. ^ "Court Decided 'Communist' is Libelous Word". Chicago Daily Tribune. Chicago: 5. October 17, 1947.
  21. ^ Leonard, p. 734.
  22. ^ "Czechs Merge Anti-Reds into One Big Party". Chicago Daily Tribune. Chicago: 8. October 20, 1947.
  23. ^ Browne, Mallory (October 22, 1947). "Curb on Lords Announced As King Opens Parliament". The New York Times: 1.
  24. ^ "Iran's Parliament Rejects Oil Accord with Soviet, 102-2". The New York Times: 1. October 23, 1947.
  25. ^ Edwards, Willard (October 24, 1947). "Cooper Tells of Rejecting 'Pinko' Scripts". Chicago Daily Tribune. Chicago: 1.
  26. ^ Leonard, p. 737.
  27. ^ "Accident Details (1947-63)". PlaneCrashInfo.com. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  28. ^ "Was War Am 27. Oktober 1947". chroniknet. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  29. ^ "Terry Anderson, AP reporter abducted in Lebanon and held captive for years, has died at 76". Associated Press News. 21 April 2024.
  30. ^ Leviero, Anthony (October 30, 1947). "Guardians for Civil Rights Proposed by Truman Board". The New York Times: 1.
  31. ^ "Statement by the President Making Public a Report by the Civil Rights Committee". Harry S. Truman Library & Museum. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  32. ^ "Maniu Confesses Plot During Treason Trial". The Montreal Gazette: 2. November 1, 1947.
  33. ^ Schmidt, Dana Adams (November 1, 1947). "Greece Announces Drastic Taxation". The New York Times: 1.