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7 August 1947 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 7 August 1947 was a Thursday.
- 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 7 August is Leo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 7 August 1947 fell in the Year of the Pig.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for August is Peridot.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 7 August 1947 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 7 August
- 1942 World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
- 1944 IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
- 1946 The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
- 1947 Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
- 1959 Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Famous people born on August 7
- Charlize Theron, South African actress (born 1975)
- Kyler Murray, American football player (born 1997)
- Michael Shannon, American actor (born 1974)
- Jalen Hurts, American football player (born 1998)
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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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