June 1947 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1947 Photosensitive glass developed
• 02 Jun 1947 Louisiana Lady opens at Century Theater NYC for 4 performances
• 03 Jun 1947 British Viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan
• 04 Jun 1947 Louisiana Lady closes at Century Theater NYC after 4 performances
• 05 Jun 1947 Sec of State George C Marshall outlines Marshall Plan
• 06 Jun 1947 Treaty drawn for establishment of International Patent Institute
• 07 Jun 1947 The Royal Romanian Army founded, the-now most successful romanian football club, Steaua București, as ''A.S.A. București'' History of FC Steaua.
• 10 Jun 1947 SAAB produces its first automobile.
• 11 Jun 1947 WW II sugar rationing finally endd in US
• 15 Jun 1947 47th US Golf Open: Lew Worsham shoots a 282 at St. Louis Country Club - Missouri
• 16 Jun 1947 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
• 17 Jun 1947 Earnest Reuter becomes Mayor of Berlin
• 18 Jun 1947 Cincinnati Reds' Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0.
• 19 Jun 1947 First plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc, California.
• 20 Jun 1947 Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills, California.
• 22 Jun 1947 12 rain in 42 minutes
• 23 Jun 1947 Compton and Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt vs. South Africa
• 24 Jun 1947 29th PGA Championship: Jim Ferrier at Plum Hollow Country Club - Detroit
• 25 Jun 1947 Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello
• 27 Jun 1947 WRC TV channel 4 in Washington DC (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 28 Jun 1947 Temptation (Tim-Tayshun) by Red Ingle with Jo Stafford hits #1
• 29 Jun 1947 Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak

Famous Birthday

• Bernard Giraudeau

  French actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer.

• Anny Duperey

  French stage, film and television actress and best-selling author.

• Salman Rushdie

  Indian writer, a Moslem famed for the condemnation by the Ayatollah of Iran along with his death sentence given on 2/14/1989, for writing...

• Ron Wood
• Jean-Yves Le Drian

  French politician who is a member of the French Socialist Party.

• Marie-Hélène Breillat

  French actress, painter and writer.

• Meredith Baxter

  American actress, the daughter of actress-model Whitney Blake and radio announcer Ted Baxter, growing up in Hollywood in her show business...

• Robert Englund

  American actor, a character player onscreen in small roles from the mid-'70s.

• Gérard Collomb
• John Norman Collins
• Reykjavík (Iceland)
• Peter Weller

  American actor, a lean and effective leading man who had his big break in the title roles of "Robocop," 1987 and "Robocop 2," 1990.

• Laurie Anderson

  American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music...

• Christine Deviers-Joncour
• Dominique Valéra
• François-Marie Banier

  French novelist, gigolo, playwright, artist, actor and photographer.

• Jacques Spiesser
• Shirin Ebadi

  Iranian lawyer judge and activist Nobel Prize laureate.

• Linda Thorson

  Toronto, Ontario -- Actress (Tara-Avengers, Julia-1 Life to Live).

• Jonathan Pryce

  Welsh actor (Evita, Brazil, Praying Mantis).

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Famous Deaths

• Hermann Darewsky

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz

  President of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62.

• Jazeps Medins

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Willem H Fly

  Typographer / co-founder (SDAP), dies at 84.

• Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel

  Gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal.

• Jean-Francois Capart

  Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86.

• Stanislav K Neumann

  Czech Poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72.

• Richard Bedford Bennett

  eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (Born 1870).

• Emil Seidel

  American woodcarver and politician 36th Mayor of Milwaukee (d. 1947).

• Shigematsu Sakaibara

  Japanese admiral (Born 1898).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Tony Pastor & His Orchestra - Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume
2. Martha Tilton - That's My Desire
3. Red Ingle & The Natural Seven & Jo Stafford - Temptation (Tim-Tayshun)
4. Three Suns - Peg O' My Heart
5. Clark Dennis - Peg O' My Heart