January 1947 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1947 Benelux agress to work related issues
• 02 Jan 1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali.
• 03 Jan 1947 William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee
• 04 Jan 1947 Park Avenue closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 72 performances
• 06 Jan 1947 Ray Lindwall smashes 100 versus England in Melbourne Cricket Ground Test.
• 08 Jan 1947 Toronto Maple Leafs' rookie Howie Meeker scores five goals in a game.
• 09 Jan 1947 Street Scene opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 148 performances
• 10 Jan 1947 British stop ships Independence and In-Gathering from landing in Israel
• 15 Jan 1947 The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (''The Black Dahlia'') is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
• 16 Jan 1947 Vincent Aurial elected President of France.
• 17 Jan 1947 Muiden Netherlands ammunition factory explodes, 16 die.
• 18 Jan 1947 Red Mill closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 831 performances
• 19 Jan 1947 SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392
• 20 Jan 1947 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright becomes deputy director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
• 21 Jan 1947 Sweethearts opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 288 performances
• 22 Jan 1947 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood, California
• 24 Jan 1947 Greek banker Dimitrios Maximos becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• 25 Jan 1947 Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis at age 48.
• 26 Jan 1947 KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die.
• 28 Jan 1947 Bay Psalm book auctioned for a record $151,000
• 30 Jan 1947 February 8 ampndash A heavy blizzard in Canada buries towns from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Calgary, Alberta.
• 31 Jan 1947 The Communists take power in Poland.

Famous Birthday

• David Bowie

  British rock star and actor with an exotic image, producing shows that staged flash and glitter with weird, sensational effects.

• Michel Sardou

  French singer and songwriter, son of actor and actress Fernand and Jackie Sardou.

• Patrick Dewaere

  French leading man of films of the 1970s; a second generation actor, borrowing is grandmother’s last name when he began performing with an...

• Michio Kaku

  American professor at City College in New York City and the leading exponent of theoretical physics.

• Robert Zoller

  American astrologer and author on Arabic parts.

• Paula Deen

  Chef.

• Andrea Ferreol
• Michel Jonasz

  French composer-songwriter, singer and actor.

• Takeshi Kitano

  Japanese actor and director.

• Takeshi Kitano

  Japanese actor and director.

• William Bonin

  American homicide; convicted of sex crimes and the rape of young boys from 1969.

• Warren Zevon

  American singer-songwriter (Hindu Love Gods and lyme and cybelle) (d. 2003).

• Michèle Delaunay
• Nolan Ryan

  American baseball pitcher known as the fastest in history, able to throw a ball clocked at 100.

• Maurice Charvet

  French pro astrologer and publisher of the newsletter, Cedra.

• Jenny Kee

  Australian fashion designer and retailer of knitwear, textile and accessories, a celebrity artist and a conservationist.

• Sandy Denny

  British singer, songwriter and recording artist with "Fairport Convention" from 5/68.

• Laura Schlessinger

  American counselor and radio personality.

• Françoise Frigola
• Yves Lenoble

  French astrologer, he was used to organizing meetings at "Le Palais des Congrès" in Paris (every year in March).

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Famous Deaths

• Forrest Reid

  Irish Author / critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71.

• Jonas Cohn

  German / English philosopher (Wertwissenschaft), dies at 77.

• Veit Valentin

  German/US historian (German People), dies at age 61.

• Gustav Adolf

  Crown Prince of Sweden, dies in air crash.

• Pyotr Krasnov

  Russian counter-revolutionary (Born 1869).

• Lambertus Zijl

  sculptor (Merchant Exchange-Amsterdam), dies at age 80.

• Frederick F Blackman

  English botanist, dies at age 80.

• Julian Ashby Burruss

  American academic (Born 1876).

• Eva Tanguay

  Canadian-born singer and entertainer (Born 1879).

• Pierre Bonnard

  French post-impressionist painter and print maker whose works included "The Open Window," 1921 and "The Breakfast Room," 1930.

• Al Capone

  Italian-American gangster who, as the czar of organized crime, was known as Chicago's public enemy number one.

• Reynaldo Hahn

  Venezuelan, naturalised French, composer, conductor, music critic, diarist, theatre director, and salon singer.

• Elizabeth Short

  American homicide victim dubbed "The Black Dahlia.

• Felix Timmermans

  Belgian-Flemish novelist of great importance, recognized for his many novels of country life, religion and animals, written with humor and...

• Karl Mannheim

  Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (d. 1947).

• Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve

  French Archbishop of Quebec (Born 1883).

• Grace Moore

  American soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at age 45.

• Josh Gibson

  Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens
2. Dinah Shore - (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
3. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (Vocal Eve Young) - A Gal in Calico
4. Johnny Mercer - Huggin' and a-Chalkin'
5. Bing Crosby - A Gal in Calico