June 1947 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jun 3 British Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan

Jun 4 US House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley act

Event of Interest

Jun 5 US Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the "Marshall Plan" to rebuild Western Europe

Jun 6 Treaty drawn up for establishment of International Patent Institute
Jun 10 Saab produces its first automobile
Jun 11 WW II sugar rationing finally ends in US (began May 28, 1942)
Jun 16 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
Jun 16 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
Jun 17 Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin
Jun 17 Pan Am Airways' 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC
Jun 19 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc, California
Jun 20 US President Harry Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act
Jun 22 12" rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)
Jun 22 Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters (9th inn)
Jun 23 Compton and Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt v South Africa

Event of Interest

Jun 23 US President Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by Congress

Jun 24 Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold

Historic Publication

Jun 25 1st version of Anne Frank's diary "Het Achterhuis" published in The Netherlands

Jun 27 98°F (36.8°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands

Birthdays in History

Jun 1 Ron Dennis, British auto racing owner (McLaren F1 team principal 1989-2001; group chairman until 2016), born in Woking, England
Jun 3 John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
Jun 4 Viktor Klima, Austrian politician (20th Chancellor of Austria, 1997-2000), born in Schwechat, Austria
Jun 5 Eric Molobi, South African activist (ANC), born in Alexandra township, Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 2006)
Jun 6 David Blunkett, English blind politician, Home Secretary (2001-4), born in Sheffield, England
Jun 8 Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist (Nobel 1995), born in South Bend, Indiana
Jun 8 Sara Paretsky, American crime writer (V. I. Warshawski novels), born in Ames, Iowa
Jun 9 John Gurda, American historian (The Making of Milwaukee,), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jun 11 Henry Cisneros, first Hispanic to serve as mayor of a major U.S. city (San Antonio), later Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton Administration
Jun 11 Laloo Prasad Yadav, Indian politician (Minister of Railways, 2004-09), born in Gopalganj, Bihar, India
Jun 13 Danie Schutte, South African underminister of Justice, born in Pretoria, South Africa
Jun 13 Jerrold Nadler, American attorney and politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), born in NYC, New York
Jun 13 Peter Holm, Swedish ex-husband and manager of Joan Collins
Jun 14 Neil Stevens, Canadian Hockey HOF, Lacrosse HOF sportswriter (The Canadian Press), born in Port Dalhousie, Ontario (d. 2022)
Jun 15 Alain Aspect, French physicist (Nobel Prize 2022 for experiments with entangled photons), born in Agen, France [1]
Jun 16 -minu [Hans-Peter Hammel], Swiss columnist and writer, born in Basel, Switzerland

Jun 19 James T. Walsh, American politician (Rep-R-NY 1989-2009), born in Syracuse, New York

Salman Rushdie (75 years old)

Jun 19 British-Indian novelist (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses), born in Mumbai, India

Jun 20 David French, British director (Deep Sleep, Bingo)
Jun 20 Ivo Milazzo, Italian comic book artist
Jun 20 Josef Clemens, German bishop and Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
Jun 21 Dana Rohrabacher, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California), born in Coronado, California

Shirin Ebadi (75 years old)

Jun 21 Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and 1st Iranian Muslim woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize (2003), born in Hamadan, Iran

Jun 22 Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian Head of State (1981-93) and President of Ghana (1993-2001), born in Accra, Gold Coast (d. 2020)
Jun 22 Octavia E. Butler, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Wild Seed), born in Pasadena, California (d. 2006)
Jun 24 Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef (Two Fat Ladies), born in London (d. 2014)
Jun 28 Mark Helprin, American writer (A Soldier of the Great War), born in Manhattan, New York
Jun 28 Patrick Kincaid, American computer programmer (TODAY) and communications consultant, born in Newberry, Michigan (d. 2020)
Jun 30 Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russian cosmonaut, born in Chelyabinsk, Russia (d. 2001)

Weddings in History

Edward W. Brooke

Jun 7 US Senator Edward W. Brooke (27) weds first wife Remigia Ferrari-Scacco

Deaths in History

Jun 9 Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, Polish politician (President of Poland in-exile 1939-47), dies at 62
Jun 10 Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
Jun 11 David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts, dies at 74
Jun 16 Jean-Francois Capart, Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86