Английская Википедия:February 1947

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The following events occurred in February 1947:

February 1, 1947 (Saturday)

February 2, 1947 (Sunday)

February 3, 1947 (Monday)

  • The US Supreme Court decided De Meerleer v. Michigan, ordering a new trial for Rene de Meerleer, who as a 17-year old in 1932 received a life sentence for murder following a one-day trial without a lawyer.[4][5]
  • The coldest temperature ever recorded in continental North America was registered in Snag, Yukon: −63.0 °C (−81.4 °F).[6]
  • Born: Paul Auster, author, in Newark, New Jersey; Melanie Safka, singer-songwriter, in Astoria, Queens, New York
  • Died: Petar Živković, 68, Serbian soldier and 11th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia

February 4, 1947 (Tuesday)

February 5, 1947 (Wednesday)

February 6, 1947 (Thursday)

February 7, 1947 (Friday)

February 8, 1947 (Saturday)

February 9, 1947 (Sunday)

February 10, 1947 (Monday)

February 11, 1947 (Tuesday)

February 12, 1947 (Wednesday)

February 13, 1947 (Thursday)

February 14, 1947 (Friday)

  • British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin announced that Britain had given up trying to solve the Palestine problem and would put the issue before the United Nations.[7]
  • Paris was virtually shut down for four hours when police, public utility workers and other government employees participated in a token strike to protest the French government's refusal to grant a general wage increase.[18]

February 15, 1947 (Saturday)

February 16, 1947 (Sunday)

  • Chiang Kai-shek introduced a number of measures to address China's economic crisis, including the ordering home of all Chinese fortunes abroad, prohibiting dealings in gold and foreign currency and banning strikes and lockouts.[20]
  • "Coal Sunday": Many miners in Wales voluntarily gave up their traditional free Sunday and worked a full shift in an effort to ease the British coal crisis.[21]

February 17, 1947 (Monday)

February 18, 1947 (Tuesday)

February 19, 1947 (Wednesday)

February 20, 1947 (Thursday)

February 21, 1947 (Friday)

  • Italy and Argentina signed an agreement under which thousands of Italian workers would be permitted to emigrate to Argentina.[7]
  • Edwin H. Land, co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation, demonstrated a new type of camera that could develop a photograph in just one minute with the turn of a knob. "With the new camera, it will be possible for the amateur to make a snapshot and compare it with the scene before he leaves the spot," Land explained to a gathering of the Optical Society of America in New York. "He can ask his subject to hold the pose until he sees the result. If he is not satisfied with the expression on the subject's face or anything else, he can retake it immediately and correct the fault."[33]
  • Born: Victor Sokolov, journalist and Eastern Orthodox priest, in Tver, USSR (d. 2006)

February 22, 1947 (Saturday)

  • Several hundred Germans were arrested in the British and American occupation zones on suspicion of having established an underground Nazi organization.[34]
  • A radio set factory in Chicago presented the smallest radio in the world: 20 cm long and 10 cm high.[34]
  • "Open the Door, Richard" by Count Basie and His Orchestra topped the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores record chart.
  • Born: Pirjo Honkasalo, film director, in Helsinki, Finland

February 23, 1947 (Sunday)

February 24, 1947 (Monday)

  • The Denazification Court in Nuremberg sentenced former German chancellor and diplomat Franz von Papen to eight years in a labour camp for having assisted Hitler's rise to power and associating with the Nazi regime to the end. Von Papen was also ordered to forfeit his personal fortune. On account of his advanced age, von Papen was ordered to be given special work suited to his physical capacity.[35]
  • The British government lifted the two-week ban on electric power to industrial plants in the Midlands, sending nearly 1 million men back to work. All other energy restrictions remained in effect.[36]
  • For the first time since 1939, British companies were authorized to directly deal with German businessmen for the purchase of German goods. American companies would have the same authorization starting on March 4.[37]
  • Born: Rupert Holmes, musician and author, in Northwich, Cheshire, England
  • Died: Pierre Janet, 87, French psychologist, philosopher and philanthropist

February 25, 1947 (Tuesday)

February 26, 1947 (Wednesday)

  • In Brussels, a parade of 50,000 former Belgian POWs demanding payment of bonuses promised to them during the war turned into a riot against the police, injuring as many as 100 people. Belgian Defence Minister Raoul de Fraiteur said the bonuses had not been paid because Belgium did not have the money.[38]
  • Born: Sandie Shaw, singer, in Dagenham, England
  • Died: Heinrich Häberlin, 78, Swiss politician; Alexander Löhr, 61, Romanian-born Luftwaffe commander (executed by a Yugoslav firing squad for war crimes)

February 27, 1947 (Thursday)

  • Cuban President Ramón Grau signed a decree ordering the deportation of mobster Lucky Luciano as an undesirable.[39]
  • The February 28 Incident began in Taiwan when Chinese law enforcement killed a bystander during an argument with a woman selling untaxed cigarettes. This was the boiling over point for a populace harboring many feelings of frustration over economic problems and corruption.
  • Born: Gidon Kremer, classical violinist, in Riga, Latvia, USSR

February 28, 1947 (Friday)

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