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1 Jackie Robinson, the first ________ baseball professional, signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

2 ________ – Martin Gottfried Weiss, Nazi war criminal (executed) (b.

3 On the next morning, Dahl reports the first modern so-called "________" encounter.

4 ________, Mexican-born rock guitarist

5 ________ – William Hartston, British chess player

6 ________ – Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (b.

7 July 29 – After being shut down on November 9, 1946, for a refurbishment, the ________ computer, the world's first electronic digital computer, is turned back on again.

8 ________, French general (b.

9 ________ – Gérard Blanc, French singer

10 July 19 – ________, English rock guitarist (Queen)

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the De La Salle University-Manila College of Engineering was established in 1947 with the aim of providing young men with knowledge of science and technology to help rehabilitate the Philippines, which had been devastated during World War II?
  • the Trow Ghyll skeleton, found near Clapham in the West Riding of Yorkshire in August 1947, was claimed to have been the decomposed remains of a German spy who died during the war?
  • the founding of Phenomena Research Australia, in response to a surge of unidentified flying object sightings in 1947, was the first gathering of Australian UFO enthusiasts?
  • the Dakar-Niger Railway was the site of a 1947 strike celebrated by author Ousmane Sembène as a turning point in West Africa's anti-colonial struggle?
  • former New Jersey Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr., co-sponsor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, served as the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor?
  • Anthony T. Rossi invented a process to pack pure chilled orange juice, and founded Tropicana Products in 1947?
  • Coop NKL opened Norway's first self serve food store on October 1, 1947?
  • Sarat Chandra Bose, the brother of Subhash Chandra Bose attempted to obtain independence for a united Bengal with Muslim leader Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1947?
  • 1985's only super typhoon, Super Typhoon Dot, is the sixth-most intense tropical cyclone in terms of wind speed to affect Bicol Region, Philippines between 1947 and 2004?
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