Page 10: Historical Events In 1947

Aug 07   Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef.   

Aug 13   Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist, dies   

Aug 14   India granted independence within British Commonwealth.   

Aug 14   Pakistan created by the British   

Aug 14   Pakistan gains independence from Britain.   

Aug 15   India declares independence from UK, Islamic part is recorded as becoming Pakistan.   

Aug 15   India gains independence from Britain.   

Aug 15   India is recorded as becoming independent, Islamic part is recorded as becoming Pakistan.   

Aug 16   Ralph Kiner is recorded as becoming 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs.   

Aug 17   The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed   

Aug 18   Naval torpedo and mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300.   

Aug 19   Ernst Laqueur, Dut chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67.   

Aug 19   J Arens and D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A   

Aug 20   Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time   

Aug 20   Franz VM Cumont, Belgian religious historian, dies at 79   

Aug 20   Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph   

Aug 21   1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win.   

Aug 21   Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies   

Aug 22   14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chi Bears 0 (105840)   

Aug 23   Pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert   

Aug 23   Pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's inaugural public singing concert.   

Aug 23   Willy Russell, Playwright; 'Educating Rita' and Shirley Valentine' is born   

Aug 25   Clark Wissler, US cultural anthropologist, dies at 76.   

Aug 25   Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1047 kph.   

Aug 26   1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat)   

Aug 29   Constantine Tsaldaris follows Maximos as Greece premier.   

Aug 31   In this year, Hungarian communist party claims election.   

Sep 06   Paul Guthnick, German astronomer, dies at 76   

Sep 07   Battles between Hindus and Moslems in New Delhi.   

Sep 08   British govt sails "Exodus" with fugitives from Nazis   

Sep 12   Harry Rowe Shelley, composer, dies at 89   

Sep 12   Pirate Ralph Kiner hits his record 8th HR in 4 games.   

Sep 13   WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting   

Sep 14   61st US Womens Tennis: A Louise Brough beats M O duPont (86 46 61).   

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Jan 02   Aleksandr tikhonova: Ussr, biathalon relay (oly-gold-1968, 72, 76, 80)   

Jan 02   Calvin hill: Nfl running back (dallas cowboys)   

Jan 02   Lanny bassham: Us, rifle-3 position (olympic-gold-1976)   

Jan 02   Jack hanna: American zoologist   

Jan 03   Sergey filipovich protchenko: Russian cosmonaut   

Jan 04   J danforth quayle: (sen-r-ind, 44th vp 1989-93)/rich draft dodger   

Jan 04   Chris cutler: English musician and composer (henry cow, art bears)   

Jan 04   Rick stein: English chef and television presenter   

Jan 04   Forrest reid: Irish author/critic (young tom, apostate),   

Jan 09   Karl mannheim: Sociologist (diagnosis of our time),    

Jan 11   Eva tanguay: Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)   

Jan 12   Jonas cohn: German/english philosopher (wertwissenschaft),   

Jan 13   Veit valentin: German/us historian (german people),    

Jan 15   Elizabeth short: The black dahlia (b. 1924)   

Jan 17   Pyotr krasnov: Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)   

Jan 20   Josh gibson: Negro league slugger,