| The World - Peace treaties for Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland signed in Paris.
- Soviet Union rejects US plan for UN atomic-energy control.
- Marshall Plan proposed to help European nations recover economically from World War II.
- India and Pakistan gain independence from Britain.
- The Dead Sea Scrolls are discovered at Qumran.
The US
President: Harry S Truman
Vice President: none
Population: 144,126,071
Federal spending: $34.50 billion
Federal debt: $257.1 billion
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
Headlines
- Hollywood "Black List" created by HUAC.
- Truman Doctrine proposes "containment" of communist expansion.Taft-Hartley Act
passed.
- Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- Meet the Press debuts on NBC. The first news show will become television's
longest-running program.
- The carbon-14 method of radiocarbon dating is developed by Willard F. Libby (US).
- The microwave oven is invented by Percy Spencer.
- John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William B. Shockley develop the transistor.
- Captain Chuck Yeager, USAF, breaks the sound barrier in the the X-1 rocket-powered
research plane at Muroc Air Force Base, California.
- Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Pacific in the Kon-Tiki.
- World Series: NY Yankees d. Brooklyn Dodgers (4-3) - First world series
to be televised.
1947 Academy Awards
Best Motion Picture: Gentleman's Agreement (Twentieth Century-Fox)
Best Actor: Ronald Colman, A Double Life
Best Actress: Loretta Young, The Farmer's Daughter
Special Awards:
James Baskett for his able and heartwarming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and
storyteller to the children of the world in Walt Disney's Song of the South.
And
Bill and Coo, in which artistry and patience blended in a novel and entertaining use of
the medium of motion pictures
And
Shoeshine, the high quality of this motion picture, brought to eloquent life in a country
scarred by war, is proof to the world that the creative spirit can triumph over adversity
And
Colonel William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat and George K. Spoor, the small
group of pioneers whose belief in a new medium and whose contributions to its development
blazed the trail along which the motion picture has progressed, in their lifetime, from
obscurity to worldwide acclaim
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