Today in History for May 1947

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 29 of 29

1st - Cleve Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad
1st - Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA
1st - Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated
1st - Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA
2nd - Eugene O'Neill's "Moon for the Misbegotten," premieres in NYC
3rd - 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8
3rd - Japan forms a constitutional democracy
3rd - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
5th - Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850M in damage
5th - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)
7th - "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC
7th - General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
7th - Paraguayian government unleashes contra revolt
8th - A movement among Card players to protest its 1st meeting with Jackie Robinson & the Dodgers is aborted by a talk from owner Sam Breadon
10th - "Chocolate Soldier" closes at Century Theater NYC after 69 perfs
10th - 73rd Preakness: Doug Dodson aboard Faultless wins in 1:59
11th - BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron Ohio)
11th - Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy
13th - Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
17th - "Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances
18th - A's catcher Warren Rosar catches his 147th game without an error
22nd - "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece
22nd - 1st US ballistic missile fired
23rd - PC Hooft prize forms for literature
25th - Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111
31st - 79th Belmont: Ruperto Donoso aboard Phalanx wins in 2:29.6
31st - Communists grab power in Hungary
31st - Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53
31st - Italian government of Gasperi forms

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 72 of 72

1st - Carlos Ward, rocker (B T Express)
1st - Ghulam Abbas, cricketer (scored 12 & 0 in only Test for Pakistan 1967)
1st - Sergio Infante, Chilean poet and writer
2nd - Bill Lowery, (Rep-R-CA, 1981- )
3rd - Doug Henning, Ft Garry Manitoba, magician (Broadway play-Magic)
6th - Andy Roberts, cricketer (NZ batsman 1976)
6th - Ben Masters, Corvalis OR, actor (Vic-Another World, Making Mr Right)
6th - Dennis Cowan, London, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band)
6th - Sandra Fisher, painter
6th - Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
6th - Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
8th - Felicity Lott, English soprano (We come to the river)
8th - Phil Sawyer, rocker (Spencer Davis Group)
8th - Rick Zehringer, Ohio, rocker (McCoys)
8th - H. Robert Horvitz, Nobel laureate
9th - Anthony Corlan, Cork City Ireland, actor (Something for Everyone)
10th - Jay Ferguson, Burbank California, rocker (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
10th - Meg Foster, Conn, actress (Sunshine, Cagney & Lacey)
10th - Paul Nicholas Young, architect
10th - Caroline Cooney, American author
10th - Thomas Tessier, American author
11th - Claude "Butch" Hudson Trucks, drummer (Allman Brothers)
12th - Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician
12th - Micheline Lanctôt, American film actor, director and screenwriter
12th - catherine yronwode, American writer and editor
13th - David Hughes, cricketer
13th - Pete "Overend" Watts, rock bassist (Mott The Hoople-All Young Dudes)
13th - Stephen R Donaldson, US, sci-fi author (Lord Foul's Bane)
13th - Edgar Burcksen, Dutch film editor
14th - Al Ciner, Chicago Ill, rock guitarist (American Breed)
14th - Dick "Dirt" Tidrow, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
14th - Karin Struck, writer
14th - Tamara Dobson, Baltimore MD, actress (Amazons, Cleopatra Jones)
15th - Graham Goble, Adelaide,Australia, rock guitarist (Little River Band)
16th - Barbara Lee, US singer (Chiffons, He's So Fine)
16th - Bill Smitrovich, actor (Crime Story, Miami Vice)
16th - Rosie Barnes, MP
17th - John Traicos, cricketer (in Egypt South Africa 1970, Zimbabwe 1992-93)
18th - Candice Azzara, Brooklyn NY, actress (Fatso)
18th - John Bruton, Prime Minister (Republic of Ireland)
19th - Jerry Hyman, Bkln, rock singer/trombonist (Blood Sweat & Tears)
20th - Iain Vallance, CEO (British Telecom)
21st - Bill Champlin, Oakland Ca, rocker
21st - Dorothy Germain, LPGA golfer
21st - Richard Hatch, Santa Monica California, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
21st - Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born actor
23rd - Ann Hui, director (Boat People)
23rd - Jonathan Pryce, North Wales, stage actor (Miss Saigon)
23rd - Bernard Comrie, English linguist
23rd - Jane Kenyon, American poet (d. 1995)
24th - Luke Rittner, sect-gen (Arts Council)
24th - Mike Reid, Altoona Penn, country singer (Walk on Faith)
24th - Martin Winterkorn, German automotive executive
25th - Jessi Colter, [Miriam Johnson], Phoenix, country singer (I'm Not Lisa)
25th - Karen Valentine, Santa Rosa CA, actress (Love American Style, Room 222)
25th - Mitch Margo, Bkln, rocker (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
26th - Glenn Turner, cricketer (masterful NZ opening batsman)
26th - Piers Gray, critic/writer
26th - Sherry Bain, California, actress (Pipe Dreams)
27th - Liana Alexandra, composer
27th - Peter DeFazio, (Rep-D-Oregon)
27th - Robert Reinacher Jr, horse trainer
27th - Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
28th - Faith Brown, impressionist
28th - Patti Reynolds, Chicago Ill, playmate (Sept, 1965)
28th - Sondra Locke, Shelbyville Tenn, actress (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
28th - Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Egyptologist
28th - Lynn Johnston, Canadian cartoonist
29th - Mark Nelson, Brooklyn NY, crew member (Biosphere 2)
29th - Gene Robinson, American ecclesiastic
30th - Jocelyne Bourassa, LPGA golfer
31st - William H Campbell Jr, rocker

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 16 of 16

1st - Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed
2nd - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (b. 1920)
5th - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
8th - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (b. 1858)
11th - Ture Rangstrom, composer, dies at 62
14th - John Ray Sinnock, US chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59
16th - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861)
17th - George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
20th - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
23rd - C F Ramuz, writer, dies at 68
27th - Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)
28th - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
30th - Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72
30th - Georg Ritter von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
31st - Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39
31st - Henri G Casadesus, Fr altviolist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at 66