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27 October 1947 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 27 October 1947 was a Monday.
- Top Film of 1947
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1947 was Forever Amber.
- Bestselling Novel of 1947
- “The Miracle of the Bells” by Russell Janney was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 1947.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 27 October is Scorpio.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 27 October 1947 fell in the Year of the Pig.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for October is Opal.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 27 October 1947 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 27 October
- 1936 Abdication Crisis: Mrs. Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
- 1944 World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
- 1954 Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- 1958 Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
- 1961 NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
Famous people born on October 27
- Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (1858–1919)
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian union leader and politician, 35 and 39th President of Brazil (born 1945)
- John Cleese, English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer (born 1939)
- Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (1932–1963)
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Events of 1947 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '1947 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- May 22 – Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, President Harry S. Truman signs an Act of Congress that implements the Truman Doctrine. This Act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.
- July 7 – A supposedly downed extraterrestrial spacecraft is reportedly found in the Roswell UFO incident, near Roswell, New Mexico, which will be written about by Stanton T. Friedman and many others.
- July 26 – Cold War: President Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into law, creating the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
Life in the US in 1947
President
Harry S. Truman
Gas (per gallon)
$0.23
Loaf of Bread
$0.12
Average House
$4,900
Weekly Wage
$46
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