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The following events occurred in July 1947:

July 1, 1947 (Tuesday)

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July 2, 1947 (Wednesday)

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July 3, 1947 (Thursday)

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July 4, 1947 (Friday)

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July 5, 1947 (Saturday)

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July 6, 1947 (Sunday)

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July 7, 1947 (Monday)

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July 8, 1947 (Tuesday)

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July 9, 1947 (Wednesday)

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July 10, 1947 (Thursday)

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July 11, 1947 (Friday)

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July 12, 1947 (Saturday)

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July 13, 1947 (Sunday)

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  • A Douglas DC-3 on a charter flight from New York to San Juan, Puerto Rico made an emergency crash landing in a swamp in Melbourne, Florida following engine trouble. 14 of the 36 aboard were killed.[11]
  • Cuban Labor Minister Carlos Prío Socarrás and Senator Eduardo Chibás fought a saber duel in the National Capitol in Havana. Chibás had been challenged to the duel by Socarrás after he harshly criticized the Labor Minister in a radio broadcast. Chibás sustained cuts to his face, left side and right arm while Socarrás was bruised in the right side.[12]

July 14, 1947 (Monday)

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  • British authorities in Palestine imposed martial law on Netanya, where the two British soldiers were kidnapped two days earlier.[13]
  • Tămădău Affair: A number of deputies of the National Peasants' Party in Romania were arrested at the Tămădău airport near Bucharest as they were waiting for airplanes to transport them out of the country. They would be charged with trying to overthrow the government.

July 15, 1947 (Tuesday)

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  • A United Nations Security Council debate on a proposed international police force ended in a deadlock after the Americans and Soviets failed to agree on how much each of the participating states would be expected to contribute.[13]
  • Issue #1 of the comic book Young Romance (cover date Sept-Oct) was published.[14] Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, it is generally considered the first romance comic, and would run through 1975.
  • India got its independence from british rule
  • Born: Peter Banks, guitarist (Yes), in Barnet, London, England (d. 2013)
  • Died: Walter Donaldson, 54, American songwriter; Brandon Hurst, 80, English stage and film actor

July 16, 1947 (Wednesday)

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  • Hungarian Interior Minister László Rajk presented Parliament with a new electoral law containing several provisions beneficial to the Communists. Most significantly, the law extended the life of the Communist-dominated National Election Committee, which had the authority to decide which parties and candidates would be allowed to run.[13]
  • The House of Lords passed a bill with unprecedented speed when the Indian independence bill was rushed through three readings and a report stage all in the same day. The bill now only required Royal Assent to become law.[15]

July 17, 1947 (Thursday)

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  • 1947 Ramdas ship disaster: The Indian passenger ship SS Ramdas capsized ten miles off Colaba Point at Bombay, killing 625 people on board.
  • 17-year-old Herbert E. Kolb, a Fred Harvey Company employee, lost his balance and fell 950 feet (290 m) to his death from the edge of Hopi Point in Grand Canyon National Park. The search for Kolb's body may have led to the discovery of uranium ore in the Grand Canyon.[16]
  • Born: Camilla, Queen of the United Kingdom; née Camilla Shand in London, England
  • Died: Raoul Wallenberg, 34, Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and politician (died under mysterious circumstances in Moscow prison)

July 18, 1947 (Friday)

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July 19, 1947 (Saturday)

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July 20, 1947 (Sunday)

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July 21, 1947 (Monday)

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July 22, 1947 (Tuesday)

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July 23, 1947 (Wednesday)

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July 24, 1947 (Thursday)

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July 25, 1947 (Friday)

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  • Hungarian President Zoltán Tildy dissolved the National Assembly and called new elections for August 31.[23]
  • President Truman signed a joint resolution ending 60 wartime emergency laws and placing time limits on 124 others.[7]
  • Andrew J. May and Murray Garsson were given sentences of eight months to two years in federal prison for war bribes.[2]
  • Died: Kathleen Scott, 69, British sculptor

July 26, 1947 (Saturday)

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July 27, 1947 (Sunday)

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July 28, 1947 (Monday)

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  • The Norwegian cargo ship Ocean Liberty exploded near the French port of Brest when a fire on board set off the cargo of ammonium nitrate, killing at least 26 people and injuring hundreds more.[25]
  • English swimmer Tom Blower completed the first swimming of the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland, achieving the feat in 15 hours and 26 minutes.

July 29, 1947 (Tuesday)

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  • Dakota VT-CLA, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain carrying medical supplies to the national government of Indonesia, was shot down over Ngoto, Bantul with only one survivor of the nine aboard. The Dutch initially denied complicity but would eventually pay restitution.
  • British authorities hanged three Irgunists for their part in the Acre Prison break.[7]
  • A record crowd of 82,500 packed into West Ham Stadium, London, to witness a speedway test match between England and Australia.
  • Died: George Bausewine, 78, American baseball player and umpire; Leo Stein, 75, American art collector and critic

July 30, 1947 (Wednesday)

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July 31, 1947 (Thursday)

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Mercer, Derrik, ed. (1989). Chronicle of the 20th Century. London: Chronicle Communications Ltd. pp. 658–659. ISBN 9-780582-039193.
  2. ^ a b c d Yust, Walter, ed. (1948). 1948 Britannica Book of the Year. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. pp. 8–9.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Leonard, Thomas M. (1977). Day By Day: The Forties. New York: Facts On File, Inc. p. 708. ISBN 0-87196-375-2.
  4. ^ Battistelli, Pier Paolo (2012). Albert Kesselring. Osprey Publishing. p. 60. ISBN 9781849087353.
  5. ^ "Larry Doby 1947 Batting Gamelogs". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  6. ^ Long, Tony (July 6, 2009). "July 6, 1947: The first protopype AK-47s, An All-Purpose Killer". Wired. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "1947". MusicAndHistory.com. Archived from the original on August 28, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  8. ^ "1947 MLB No-Hitters". ESPN. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  9. ^ "Military Forces of New Zealand, Annual report of the Chief of the General Staff, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1 January 1948". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
  10. ^ "Wilko Johnson obituary | Wilko Johnson | the Guardian".
  11. ^ "Accident Details (1947-45)". PlaneCrashInfo.com. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  12. ^ "Cuban Labor Minister Hurt in Duel, Keeps Job He Quit to Fight Senator". The New York Times. July 14, 1947. p. 1.
  13. ^ a b c Leonard, p. 710.
  14. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series: Volume 1, Part 2, Numbers 1 & 2. Library of Congress. 1947. p. 430.
  15. ^ "Lords Adopt Bill on India's Freedom". The New York Times. July 17, 1947. p. 8.
  16. ^ Ghiglieri, Michael P.; Myers, Thomas M. (2016). Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon (Second ed.). Flagstaff, Arizona: Puma Press, LLC. ISBN 978-0-9847858-0-3.
  17. ^ Effrat, Louis (July 19, 1947). "Bombers Blanked by Hutchinson, 8-0". The New York Times. p. 7.
  18. ^ Leonard, p. 711.
  19. ^ "Coast Rail Strike Ended in 7 Hours". The New York Times. July 23, 1947. p. 14.
  20. ^ a b Leonard, p. 712.
  21. ^ "Petrillo Permits School, Military Bands to Broadcast, Make Records, Kearns Says". The New York Times. July 24, 1947. p. 12.
  22. ^ "West Frankfortm IL Gas Explosion in Coal Mine, July 1947". GenDisasters.com. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  23. ^ "Hungarian Decree Closes Parliament". The New York Times. July 26, 1947. p. 4.
  24. ^ Hansen, James R. (April 2018). First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-5011-5306-8.
  25. ^ "Ocean Liberty". Cedre. Retrieved December 23, 2016.