Today in History for Year 1947

Months in Year 1947: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 400

Jan 1st - Benelux agress to work related issues
Jan 1st - Britain nationalizes its coal industry
Jan 1st - WTTG TV channel 5 in Washington, DC (MET) begins broadcasting
Jan 2nd - Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
Jan 3rd - 1st opening session of Congress to be televised
Jan 3rd - William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee
Jan 4th - "Park Avenue" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 72 performances
Jan 4th - "Show Boat" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 417 performances
Jan 6th - Ray Lindwall smashes 100 v England in MCG Test
Jan 7th - Aust v Eng at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Aust since 1882
Jan 8th - Gen George Marshall becomes Sect of State
Jan 8th - Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game
Jan 9th - "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 148 performances
Jan 9th - Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF
Jan 9th - Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
Jan 10th - "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 725 performances
Jan 10th - British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel
Jan 10th - Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard
Jan 15th - The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
Military Leader George Marshall Jan 16th - Vincent Aurial elected president of France
Jan 17th - Muiden Neth ammunition factory explodes, 16 die
Jan 18th - "Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 831 performances
Jan 18th - Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000)
Jan 18th - Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400
Jan 19th - SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392
Jan 20th - Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
Jan 21st - "Sweethearts" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 288 performances
Jan 21st - Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel
Jan 22nd - 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA
Jan 22nd - KTLA TV channel 5 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
Jan 24th - NFL adds 5th official (back judge) & allows sudden death in playoffs
Jan 26th - KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die
Jan 28th - "Bay Psalm" book auctioned for a record $151,000
Jan 29th - Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," premieres in NYC
Playwright Arthur Miller Feb 1st - Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems & communists
Feb 1st - Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad
Feb 1st - NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established
Feb 3rd - -81°F (-63°C), Snag Yukon (North American record)
Feb 3rd - 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
Feb 3rd - Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket
Feb 5th - Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland
Feb 6th - Compton & Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket
Feb 7th - Arabs & Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine
Feb 8th - Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51)
Feb 8th - KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
Feb 9th - Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Phila
Feb 10th - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
Feb 10th - Netherlands Radio Union forms
Feb 10th - Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
Feb 10th - WW II peace treaties signed
Feb 12th - Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
Feb 12th - Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands
Feb 15th - "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" closes at Century Theater NYC after 60 perfs
Feb 16th - Morton Gould's 3rd Symphony, premieres
Feb 17th - Dutch RC bishops publish manifest against "godless communism"
Feb 17th - Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR
Feb 18th - 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin Pa
Feb 18th - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone," premieres in NYC
Feb 19th - CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3"
Feb 20th - Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in LA
Feb 20th - Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India
Feb 20th - State of Prussia ceases to exist.
Feb 21st - 1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember"
Feb 21st - 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land
Feb 21st - Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champ
Feb 23rd - Gen Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews
Feb 27th - Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized
Feb 28th - Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan
Feb 28th - 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
Mar 1st - International Monetary Fund begins operation
Mar 4th - WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
Mar 6th - XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, CA
Mar 7th - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War.
Mar 9th - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
Mar 9th - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
Mar 12th - "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances
Mar 12th - Belgian government of Huysmans resigns
33rd US President Harry Truman Mar 12th - Pres Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
Mar 13th - "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
Mar 13th - 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win
Mar 15th - John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
Mar 16th - Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
Mar 19th - Belgian government of Spaak, forms
Mar 19th - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jenan
Mar 20th - 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic
Mar 21st - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur
Mar 21st - Pres Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States
Mar 21st - Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, NZ v England at Christchurch
Mar 22nd - President Harry Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty
Mar 24th - Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency
Mar 24th - John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN
Mar 25th - 9th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Holy Cross beats Oklahoma 58-47
Mar 25th - Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia
Mar 25th - Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill, claims 111
Mar 25th - Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v NZ, Christchurch)
Mar 29th - "Beggar's Holiday" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 111 perfs
Apr 1st - 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat
Apr 2nd - Carlo Terron's "Il diamente del profeta," premieres in Rome
Apr 3rd - "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 108 perfs
Apr 4th - Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 943

Jan 1st - Alexei Ivanovich Bobrov, Russia, cosmonaut
Jan 1st - Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer
Jan 1st - Peter Lankhorst, Dutch MP (PPR)
Jan 1st - Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Rus cosmonaut (Soyuz T-8, TM-4, STS 63)
Jan 1st - Jon Corzine, American politician
Jan 1st - Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer
Jan 2nd - Aleksandr Tikhonova, USSR, biathalon relay (Oly-gold-1968, 72, 76, 80)
Jan 2nd - Calvin Hill, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
Jan 2nd - Lanny Bassham, US, rifle-3 position (Olympic-gold-1976)
Jan 2nd - Jack Hanna, American zoologist
Jan 3rd - Sergey Filipovich Protchenko, Russian cosmonaut
Jan 4th - Chris Cutler, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
Jan 4th - Rick Stein, English chef and television presenter
Jan 5th - Michael DeWine, (Rep-R-Oh, 1983- )
Jan 5th - Ted Lange, Oakland California, actor (Isaac-Love Boat, Mr T & Tina)
Jan 5th - Mercury Morris, American football player
Jan 6th - Ian Millar, Halifax NS, dressage rider (World Cup 1988, 89, Oly-96)
Jan 7th - David Porcelijn, Dutch composer/conductor
Jan 7th - Shobha De, Indian writer
Jan 8th - David Bowie, [Jones], London, singer/actor (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust)
Jan 8th - Igor Ivanov, Leningrad, Canadian chess champion (1981-84, 1985- )
Jan 8th - Terry Sylvester, rocker (Hollies-You are the Air that I Breathe)
Jan 8th - Don Bendell, American author & karate master
Jan 8th - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
Jan 9th - Ronnie Landfield, American artist
Jan 10th - George Alec Effinger, US, sci-fi author (Nick of Time)
Jan 10th - Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac "2Pac" Shakur, member of the Black Panther Party
Jan 11th - Anna Calder-Marshall, Kensington England, actress (Zulu Dawn)
Jan 11th - Bryan Robson, English international soccer star
Jan 12th - Tom Dempsey, NFL record-holder (longest field goal, 63 yards)
Jan 13th - John Lees, England, rock guitarist/vocalist (Medicine Man)
Jan 13th - Peter Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
Jan 13th - Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of Kraków
Jan 13th - Carles Rexach, former Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach
Jan 14th - Bill Weberniuk, Canadian snookers player
Jan 15th - Andrea Martin, Portland ME, comediene (SCTV, Club Paradise)
Jan 15th - Pete Waterman, rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
Jan 16th - Georgette Mosbacher, CEO (La Prairie cosmetics)
Jan 16th - Juliet Berto, Grenoble France, actress (Le Sex Shop)
Jan 16th - Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007)
Jan 16th - Harvey Proctor, British politician
Jan 17th - Gail Toushin, LPGA golfer
Jan 17th - Jane Elliot, NYC, actress (Baby Boom, Gen Hospital, Knots Landing)
Jan 17th - Todd Susman, St Louis Mo, actor (Goodnight Beantown)
Jan 17th - Ulysses Dove, dancer/choreographer
Jan 19th - Alessandro Haber, actor (China is Near)
Jan 19th - Ann Compton, news reporter (ABC TV)
Jan 19th - Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur
Jan 20th - George Grantham, rocker (Poco-Crazy Eyes)
Jan 20th - Malcolm McLaren, founded rock group (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen)
Jan 20th - Ronald Townson, rock singer (5th Dimension-We Can Fly)
Jan 20th - Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and directeur sportif
Jan 21st - Jill Eikenberry, New Haven Ct, (Ann Kelsey-LA Law, Manhattan Project)
Jan 21st - Jimmy Ibbotson, Penn, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
Jan 21st - Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan)
Jan 21st - Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer
Jan 23rd - Thomas R Carper, (Rep-D-DE, 1983- )
Jan 23rd - Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia
Jan 23rd - Gatewood Galbraith, [Louis], Carlisle, Kentucky, Lawyer, American political activist, iconic Kentucky political figure, (d. 2012)
Jan 24th - David Randall, priest
Jan 24th - Giorgio Chinaglia, Carrara Italy, soccer star (Lazio of Italy, NY Cosmos), (d. 2012)
Jan 24th - Warren Zevon, Chicago, rocker (Excitable Boy)
Jan 24th - Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer
Jan 25th - Tostão, Brazilian footballer
Jan 25th - Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer
Jan 26th - Patrick Dewaere, [PJMH Bordeaux], France, actor (Les Valseuses)
Jan 26th - Michel Sardou, French singer
Jan 27th - Nedra Telley, NYC, vocalist (Ronettes-Be My Little Baby)
Jan 27th - Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer (d. 1999)
Jan 27th - Vyron Polydoras, Greek politician
Jan 28th - MJ Ainsworth, CEO (Institute of Chartered Secretaries)
Jan 28th - Valerie Bragg, principal (City Technology College-Kingshurst)
Jan 29th - David Byron, vocalist (Uriah Heep)
Jan 29th - Israel Wetrin, managing director (Elonex)
Jan 29th - Michael Mavor, Head Master (Rugby School)
Jan 29th - Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate
Jan 29th - Marián Varga, Slovak musician
Jan 30th - Martin Christoph Redel, composer
Jan 30th - Steve Marriott, rock guitarist/vocalist (Humble Pie-Eat It, Faces)
Jan 30th - Les Barker, English poet
Jan 31st - Jim Nollman, composer
Jan 31st - Nolan Ryan, pitcher (Mets, Angels, Astros) (7 no-hitters, 5,714 Ks)
Feb 1st - Adam Ingram, British MP
Feb 1st - Terry Hibbitt, soccer star
Feb 1st - Mike Brant, Israeli pop singer (d. 1975)
Feb 1st - Normie Rowe, Australian singer
Actress Farrah Fawcett (Feb 2nd) Feb 2nd - Farrah Fawcett, Texas, actress (Charley's Angels, Burning Bed)
Feb 2nd - Aleksandr Medved, USSR, wrestler (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
Feb 2nd - Derek Shulman, rocker
Feb 2nd - Peter Lucia, rock drummer (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
Feb 3rd - Chose Alberts, [Krommenhoek], vocalist (Yet Many Years)
Feb 3rd - Dave Davies, London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Kinks-Lola)
Feb 3rd - Joe Coleman, baseball pitcher (Washington, Detroit)
Feb 3rd - Koos Alberts, [Krommenhoek], Dutch vocalist (Many More Years to Come)
Feb 3rd - Melanie, [Safka], Astoria, vocalist/songwriter (Candles in Rain)
Feb 3rd - Paul Auster, US author/poet/director (Mr Vertigo, Smoke)
Feb 3rd - Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor
Feb 4th - James Danforth "Dan" Quayle, Indianapolis Indiana, USA (Sen-R-Ind, 44th Vice President 1989-93)
Feb 4th - Jeannie Wilson, Memphis Tenn, actress (Simon & Simon, Stir Crazy)
Feb 4th - Sanford Bishop, (Rep-D-Georgia)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

Sep 27th - Fantasy and sci-fiction writer Ray Bradbury (27) weds Marguerite McClure (25)
Nov 20th - Future British Queen, Princess Elizabeth marries Prince Philip in Westminster Abbey
Dec 5th - "Spiderman" creator Stan Lee (24) weds Joan Clayton Boocock

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 151

Jan 4th - Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71
Jan 9th - Karl Mannheim, sociologist (Diagnosis of Our Time), dies at 53
Jan 9th - Lambertus Zijl, sculptor (Merchant Exchange-Amsterdam), dies at 80
Jan 11th - Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
Jan 12th - Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Wertwissenschaft), dies at 77
Jan 13th - Veit Valentin, German/US historian (German People), dies at 61
Jan 15th - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924)
Jan 17th - Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
Jan 17th - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883)
Jan 20th - Josh Gibson, Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35
Jan 23rd - Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator, dies at 79
Jan 23rd - Roy Park, cricketer (prolific Victorian bat & official), dies
Jan 24th - Felix Timmermans, writer/painter (Gift from St Nicholas), dies at 60
Jan 25th - Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis at 48
Jan 26th - Grace Moore, American soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at 48
Jan 26th - Gustav Adolf, crown prince of Sweden, dies in air crash
Jan 28th - Reynaldo Hahn, composer, dies at 72
Jan 29th - Fred Barratt, cricket (5 wkts at 47 in 5 Tests for Eng 1929-30), dies
Jan 30th - Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at 80
Gangster Al Capone (Jan 25th) Feb 3rd - Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74
Feb 3rd - Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, US lt-adm (WW II-Task Force 58), dies at 60
Feb 5th - Ganzefles, Dutch nazi spy/Jews hunter, executed
Feb 5th - Hans Fallada, writer, dies at 53
Feb 6th - Albert JM Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch), dies at 82
Feb 6th - Luigi Russolo, composer, dies at 61
Feb 8th - Ernest Samuel Williams, composer, dies at 65
Feb 12th - Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72
Feb 25th - Friedrich Paschen, German physicist, dies at 82
Feb 26th - Ben Webster, actor (Old Curiosity Shop), dies at 82
Feb 26th - Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (b. 1868)
Feb 27th - Mackinnon of Mackinnon, cricketer (Tests Eng v Aust 1879), dies at 89
Mar 1st - J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed
Mar 5th - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer/conductor (La Giara), dies at 63
Mar 6th - Ludwig Weber, composer, dies at 55
Mar 9th - Stanley Jackson, cricketer (20 Tests for England 1893-1905), dies
Mar 11th - Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45
Mar 12th - "Winston Churchill the American", American novelist (b. 1871)
Mar 18th - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
Mar 19th - Willem F J Pijper, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52
Mar 20th - Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (b. 1884)
Mar 23rd - Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
Mar 27th - Charles Smith, cricketer (batted for S Afr in 1902-03), dies
Mar 28th - Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57
Mar 28th - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
Apr 1st - George II, king of Greece, dies at 56
Apr 2nd - Joseph Hardstaff, cricket (311 runs in 5 Tests for Eng 1907-08), dies
Apr 4th - William O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. ?)
Apr 6th - Vaclav Kapral, composer, dies at 58
Apr 6th - Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (b. 1896)
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford (Apr 8th) Apr 8th - Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars), dies at 83
Apr 9th - Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer, dies at 43
Apr 11th - Louise Peete, American murderess (b. 1880)
Apr 12th - Christian F L Leipoldt, South African writer (Die Moormansgat), dies
Apr 15th - Wolstenholme, rocker, dies
Apr 16th - Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)
Apr 18th - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25), dies at 51
Apr 20th - Christian X, king of Denmark (1912-47), dies at 76
Apr 24th - Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873)
Apr 29th - Irving Fisher, US economist, dies at 80
May 1st - Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed
May 2nd - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (b. 1920)
May 5th - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
May 8th - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (b. 1858)
May 11th - Ture Rangstrom, composer, dies at 62
May 14th - John Ray Sinnock, US chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59
May 16th - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861)
May 17th - George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
May 20th - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
May 23rd - C F Ramuz, writer, dies at 68
May 27th - Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)
May 28th - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
May 30th - Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72
May 30th - Georg Ritter von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
May 31st - Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39
May 31st - Henri G Casadesus, Fr altviolist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at 66
Jun 2nd - Hermann Darewsky, composer, dies at 64
Jun 6th - Norman Reid, cricketer (Test S Af v Aust 1921-22, 11 & 6, 2-63), dies
Jun 8th - Tom O'Brien, actor (Flying Fool), dies at 56
Jun 9th - Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62
Jun 10th - Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
Jun 12th - Jazeps Medins, composer, dies at 70
Jun 16th - Jean-Francois Capart, Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86
Jun 18th - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
Jun 19th - Willem H Fly, typographer/co-founder (SDAP), dies at 84
Jun 20th - Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
Jun 24th - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (b. 1864)
Jun 26th - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
Jun 28th - Stanislav K Neumann, Czech poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72
Jul 1st - Clarence Lucas, composer, dies at 80
Jul 9th - Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish general (b. 1865)
Jul 12th - Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
Jul 13th - Warwick Armstrong, cricketer (50 Tests 1901-21, 2863 runs), dies
Jul 15th - Henry Kolker, dies at 76
Jul 15th - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
Jul 17th - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved Jews), dies at 34
Jul 19th - Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
Jul 19th - U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
Jul 24th - Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72
Jul 30th - George Challenor, cricketer (played in 1st WI Test side 1928), dies
Jul 30th - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)