March 1947 in History

Events in History

Mar 12 US President Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism

Mar 17 Arnold J. Toynbee appears on the front cover of Time magazine

Mar 19 Belgian government of Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium Socialist Party) forms

Mar 19 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jenan

Mar 20 180 tonne blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic
Mar 21 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur
Mar 21 US President Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States
Mar 22 President Harry Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty
Mar 24 Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency

Mar 24 John D. Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN

Mar 3 Dave Mount, English rocker (Mud), born in Carshalton, Surrey (d. 2006)
Mar 3 Clifton Snider, American poet and writer
Mar 6 Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
Mar 7 Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician
Mar 7 Helen Eadie, Scottish politician
Mar 8 Florentino Pérez, Spanish football executive
Mar 9 Keri Hulme, New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer, born in Christchurch, New Zealand

Mar 10 [Avril] Kim Campbell, Canada's 1st female Prime Minister and 19th overall (1993), born in Port Alberni, British Columbia

Mar 10 Laurie Langenbach, Dutch author
Mar 10 Paul Condon, Baron Condon, former Commissioner of The Metropolitan Police
Mar 10 Bob Greene, American journalist
Mar 11 Geoffrey Hunt, Australia, world-champion squash player

Mar 12 Mitt Romney, 70th Republican Governor of Massachusetts and presidential candidate, born in Detroit, Michigan

Mar 22 James Patterson, American author (Alex Cross, Witch and Wizard), born in Newburgh, New York

Mar 24 Alan Sugar, English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer (Amstrad), born in Hackney, London

Mar 24 Paul McCandless, rocker (Torches on the Lake)
Mar 24 Pieter W Coetzer, South African journalist/MP (NP)
Mar 24 Christine Gregoire, American politician, current governor of Washington
Mar 25 Claudine Schneider, (Rep-R-RI, 1981- )
Mar 26 Dar Robinson, American stuntman (d. 1986)
Mar 27 Daphne Todd, English artist and president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters), born in York
Mar 27 Walt Mossberg, American journalist, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal, born in Warwick, Rhode Island
Mar 28 Bruce Gilbert, English producer (China Syndrome, 9 to 5, On Golden Pond), born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Mar 28 John Landecker, American disk jockey, born in Michigan
Mar 29 Aleksandr Stepenovich Viktorenko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3, 8, 14, 20), born in Olginka, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Mar 29 Bobby Kimball American rocker (Toto-Roseann), born in Orange, Texas
Mar 29 Peter Hinchcliffe, co-founder (Iceland Frozen Foods)
Mar 30 Ryszard Kotla, Polish travel writer and activist, tour guide, journalist, academic teacher, engineer
Mar 31 Caesar Gaviria Trujillo, president (Colombia, 1990-94)
Mar 31 Jon-Jon Poulos, rocker (Buckinghams), born in Chicago, Illinois

Mar 1 Rocket engineer Wernher von Braun (34) weds Maria Luise von Quistorp in Landshut, Germany

Mar 1 J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed
Mar 9 Carrie Chapman Catt, American women's suffrage leader, dies at 88
Mar 12 "Winston Churchill the American", American novelist (b. 1871)
Mar 12 Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure, dies at 87
Mar 18 William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (General Motors), dies at 85
Mar 23 Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
Mar 28 Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)