August 1947 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1947 Medium & The Telephone opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 211 performances
• 04 Aug 1947 The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
• 05 Aug 1947 Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to UN pressure
• 07 Aug 1947 Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef
• 14 Aug 1947 Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000.
• 15 Aug 1947 India declares independence from the UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan
• 16 Aug 1947 Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs
• 17 Aug 1947 The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
• 18 Aug 1947 Naval torpedo and mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain, killing 168, injuring 4000.
• 19 Aug 1947 J Arens and D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A
• 20 Aug 1947 Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
• 21 Aug 1947 1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win
• 22 Aug 1947 14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chi Bears 0
• 23 Aug 1947 The Prime Minister of Greece, Dimitrios Maximos, resigns.
• 25 Aug 1947 Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 km/h
• 26 Aug 1947 1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead
• 27 Aug 1947 When the French government lowers the daily bread ration to 200ampnbspgrams, causing riots in Verdun and in Le Mans.
• 29 Aug 1947 Constantine Tsaldaris follows Maximos as Greece Premier
• 30 Aug 1947 A fire at a movie theater in Rueil, a suburb of Paris, France kills 87 people.
• 31 Aug 1947 Hungarian communist party wins election

Famous Birthday

• Paulo Coelho

  Brazilian esoteric writer who's books are extremely popular and sell internationally.

• Frédéric Mitterrand

  French and Tunisian citizen, a former French Minister of Culture and Communication.

• Ian Anderson (musician)
• Danielle Steel

  American novelist, currently the best selling author alive and the fourth bestselling author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold.

• James Hunt

  British World Motor Racing Champion in 1976.

• Barbara Bach

  American model and actress.

• Anwar Ibrahim

  Anwar Ibrahim is a Malaysian politician.

• Temple Grandin

  American animal behaviorist with a unique empathy with animals.

• Anne Archer

  American actress.

• Georges Pernoud

  French journalist, television personality and producer who is best known for his "Thalassa" program, created in 1975 and dedicated to the...

• Cindy Williams

  American actress who is most widely known for playing Shirley on the TV series "Laverne And Shirley.

• Roger De Vlaeminck

  Belgian champion cyclist, noted family, brother of cyclist Erik de Vlaeminck.

• Marc Messier (actor)
• Rick Derringer

  American musician, a singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer.

• Louis Sankalé

  French Catholic clergyman, the Bishop of Nice from March 2005 to August 2013.

• Geneviève Yavchitz
• Evelyne Dress
• Jacques Myard
• Rowena Wallace

  English-born Australian actress, most especially in the genre of soap opera.

• Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
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Famous Deaths

• Manolete

  Spanish bull fighter who was gored to death during a bull fight on 28 August 1947.

• Joannes D M Cornelissen

  Historian (Johann de White).

• Ernst Laqueur

  Dut chemist / psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67.

• Franz VM Cumont

  Belgian religious historian, dies at 79.

• Johan H T Norlind

  Swedish musicologist.

• Ettore Bugatti

  French naturalized citizen, designer and nmanufacturer of high-performance automobiles, he founded his firm in Molsheim (Alsace) in 1909.

• Clark Wissler

  American anthropologist author and educator (d. 1947).

• Anton Ivanovich Denikin

  Russian general (Born 1872).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Perry Como (Ted Weems Orchestra) - I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (Decca)
2. Count Basie & His Orchestra - I Ain't Mad at You
3. Francis Craig & His Orchestra - Near You
4. Freddy Martin & His Orchestra - The Lady from 29 Palms
5. Tony Pastor & His Orchestra - The Lady from Twenty-Nine Palms