December 1947 calendar

Events

• 02 Dec 1947 13th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Lujack, Notre Dame (quarterback).
• 03 Dec 1947 Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway, New York, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
• 04 Dec 1947 USSR joins International Amateur Athletic Union.
• 05 Dec 1947 Joe Louis beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
• 06 Dec 1947 The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
• 08 Dec 1947 Caribbean Carnival opens at International Theater NYC for 11 performances
• 09 Dec 1947 French labor unions call off the general strike and re-commence negotiations with the French government.
• 10 Dec 1947 USSR and Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement.
• 11 Dec 1947 Angel in the Wings opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 308 performances
• 12 Dec 1947 United Mine Workers union withdraws from AFL.
• 13 Dec 1947 Caribbean Carnival closes at International NYC after 11 performances
• 14 Dec 1947 Cleveland Browns beat the New York Yankees 14-3 in AAFC championship game
• 16 Dec 1947 William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
• 17 Dec 1947 New York struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27 of snow
• 18 Dec 1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Optissima Pax
• 22 Dec 1947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution.
• 23 Dec 1947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in Bell Labs
• 25 Dec 1947 Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law).
• 26 Dec 1947 Cradle Will Ruck opens at Mansfield Theater NYC for 34 performances
• 27 Dec 1947 1st Howdy Doody Show, (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC
• 28 Dec 1947 Chicago Cardinals beat Philadelphia Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game.
• 29 Dec 1947 Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine.
• 30 Dec 1947 36th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1).

Famous Birthday

• Alain Bashung

  French singer, songwriter, comedian and actor (Born 1947).

• Francis Huster

  French film actor and director, comedian, scriptwriter, his father Charles was commercial director of Lancia and his mother was of Jewish...

• Jean Échenoz
• Dilma Rousseff

  Brazilian economist and politician currently serving as the 36th President of Brazil.

• Paco de Lucía
• Ted Danson

  American actor, a top favorite as the libidinous bartender Sam Malone in the award-winning TV series "Cheers," a role he played with wit,...

• Pierre Bodein

  French criminal, a recidivist since 1969 with alternating stays in a psychiatric hospital and prison.

• Jacques Halbronn

  French historian and ethnologist of the astrological milieu and an organizer of astrological congresses since 1975.

• Patricia Krenwinkel

  American homicide; a member of the Charles Manson family.

• Gregg Allman

  American musician who formed the "Allman Brothers Band.

• Susan Lucci
• Pepe Lobo
• Jeff Lynne

  English singer-songwriter guitarist and producer (Electric Light Orchestra Traveling Wilburys The Move and The Idle Race).

• Tim Matheson

  American actor on TV and films, co-star of the TV series "The Quest.

• Gigliola Cinquetti

  Italian singer and TV presenter.

• ADG (Alain Fournier)
• Burton Cummings

  Canadian singer, award-winning pop-rock singer and star of the film "Melanie.

• Minouche Barelli

  French singer, best-known internationally for her participation in the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest.

• Gérard Blanc

  French singer, leader of the group Martin Circus.

• Astrid Zekul

  German physicist, mathematician, parapsychologist, esoteric and professional astrologer since 1983, also an imagination and meditation...

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Famous Deaths

• Hardy

  Mathematician.

• King Victor

  Emmanuel III of Italy (Born 1869).

• Aleister Edward S Crowley

  British occultist, dies at age 72.

• Franz Zorell

  German Roman Catholic lexicographer, dies at age 84.

• Victor Emmanuel III

  king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at age 78.

• Joseph Cuvelier

  Belgian historian/general, dies at age 78.

• Han [Henricus A] van Meegeren

  Dutch painter/art forger, dies at age 58.

• Franz X Ritter von Epp

  German general (SW Africa), dies at age 79.

• G H Hardy

  English mathematician (Born 1877).

• Gaspar G Bacon

  American politician (Born 1886).

• Alfred North Whitehead

  English mathematician and philosopher (Born 1861).

• Stanley Baldwin

  British statesman and author.

• Aleister Crowley

  British mystic who authored "Equinox of the Gods" in a dozen volumes.

• Nicholas Roerich

  Russian aristocrat, an artist, philosopher, explorer and archaeologist, a descendent of the royal line of Roerich.

• Arthur Machen

  Welsh actor and author (d. 1947).

• Han van Meegeren

  Dutch painter, portraitist and art forger (Born 1889).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bing Crosby - White Christmas
2. Charlie Spivak & His Orchestra - (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
3. Johnny Mercer - A Gal in Calico
4. Jo Stafford - Serenade of the Bells
5. Gene Autry - Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)