February 1947 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1947 Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of Christian-democrats and communists.
• 03 Feb 1947 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery
• 05 Feb 1947 Bolewet Beirut becomes President of Poland.
• 06 Feb 1947 South Pacific Commission (SPC) founded.
• 07 Feb 1947 Arabs and Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine.
• 08 Feb 1947 KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St. Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 09 Feb 1947 Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia
• 10 Feb 1947 WW II peace treaties signed
• 12 Feb 1947 Daytime fireball and meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
• 15 Feb 1947 Toplitzky of Notre Dame closes at Century Theater NYC after 60 performances
• 17 Feb 1947 Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR.
• 18 Feb 1947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin, Pennsylvania.
• 20 Feb 1947 Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India.
• 21 Feb 1947 1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera A Woman to Remember
• 22 Feb 1947 ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon ''Cat Fishin''', is released.
• 23 Feb 1947 American General Dwight Eisenhower opens drive to raise US$170 million in aid for European Jews.
• 25 Feb 1947 The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
• 27 Feb 1947 Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized.
• 28 Feb 1947 Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan.

Famous Birthday

• Farrah Fawcett

  American actress, a model and commercial actress before becoming a star during her one season in the TV hit series "Charlie's Angels," 1976.

• Mike Brant

  Israeli pop star who achieved fame after moving to France.

• William Leymergie

  French journalist, television producer and host, best known for the French breakfast television news show Télématin, broadcast on public...

• Tim Buckley

  American songwriter, guitarist, singer composer, lyricist, performing and recording artist.

• Paul Auster

  American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning...

• Marisa Berenson

  American fashion model with an ethereal, yet somewhat vacant beauty.

• Edward James Olmos
• Marie-Laure Augry

  French journalist, a member of the 'Club des médiateurs de la presse' ("Press Mediators' Club").

• Melanie Safka

  American songwriter, recording artist and poet, who wrote her own material.

• Joselito Jimenez
• Jessica Savitch

  of Margate, New Jersey, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies in car accident drowning at age 36 (born 1947).

• Jessica Savitch

  of Margate, New Jersey, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies in car accident drowning at age 36 (born 1947).

• Dan Quayle

  American politician, Vice-President of the U.S.

• Jacques Pradel

  French radio journalist, TV host and writer.

• Stephanie Beacham

  English actress.

• Sandie Shaw

  British singer, a pop artist of the '60s who used to sing while barefoot.

• John Adams (composer)
• André van Duin
• Dave Davies (musician)
• Michèle André
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Famous Deaths

• Ben Webster

  American jazz tenor saxophonist, a.k.

• Ganzefles

  Dutch Nazi spy / Jews hunter, executed.

• Albert JM Bakker

  Dutch actor (Teun the night watch), dies at 82.

• Heinrich Haberlin

  Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (Born 1868).

• Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg

  Austrian soprano/director, dies at age 74.

• Marc A "Pete" Mitscher

  American Lieutenant-Admiral (WWII-Task Force 58), dies at age 60.

• Ernest Samuel Williams

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Hans Fallada

  German prominent novelist whose work faithfully reflected the zeitgeist of the great depression as it affected the German peasants.

• Luigi Russolo

  Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises (1913).

• Marc Mitscher

  American admiral and pilot (d. 1947).

• Moses Gomberg

  Ukrainian-American chemist and academic (d. 1947).

• Sidney Toler

  Actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72.

• Friedrich Paschen

  German physicist, dies at age 82.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Kay Kyser & His Orchestra - Managua, Nicaragus
2. Three Flames - Open The Door, Richard
3. Count Basie & His Orchestra - Open The Door, Richard!
4. Dusty Fletcher - Open The Door, Richard (Part 1)
5. Al Jolson - The Anniversary Song