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Earth 1947 full movie
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- Duration: 101:18
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Earth is a 1998 film directed by Deepa Mehta. The film stars Aamir khan, Nandita das and Rahul khanna Plot: The story is set in 1947 in Lahore, where Hindu, ...
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Earth is a 1998 film directed by Deepa Mehta. The film stars Aamir khan, Nandita das and Rahul khanna Plot: The story is set in 1947 in Lahore, where Hindu, ...
Are You Popular? (1947)
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One of the best examples of post-World War II social guidance films, with examples of "good" and "bad" girls, proper and improper dating etiquette, courtesy ...
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One of the best examples of post-World War II social guidance films, with examples of "good" and "bad" girls, proper and improper dating etiquette, courtesy ...
- published: 08 Nov 2010
- views: 21607
- author: OldTVTime
India-Pakistan partition 1947
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A New India August 15 1947
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The newsreel announcing India's independence to US audiences on August 15, 1947 (the first part deals with Pakistan's Independence the previous day). Shows N...
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The newsreel announcing India's independence to US audiences on August 15, 1947 (the first part deals with Pakistan's Independence the previous day). Shows N...
- published: 14 Mar 2006
- views: 285855
- author: harappa
Redwood Lumber Industry, Northern California - 1947
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- Duration: 9:57
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"What Majestic Trees! - Hey, Let's cut 'em down!" Cutting, loading, transportation, mill sawing and finishing operations of the Northern California's redwood...
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"What Majestic Trees! - Hey, Let's cut 'em down!" Cutting, loading, transportation, mill sawing and finishing operations of the Northern California's redwood...
- published: 15 Nov 2008
- views: 482412
- author: ohlhous
Partition of 1947 India-Pakistan
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Partition of 1947 India-Pakistan Delhi Video http://www.timesofpakistan.com.
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Partition of 1947 India-Pakistan Delhi Video http://www.timesofpakistan.com.
- published: 20 May 2008
- views: 264442
- author: timespk
UFO TECHNOLOGY FROM ROSWELL 1947
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- Duration: 6:50
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One Phillip Corso claimed he reversed engineered the technology from the ufo crash in roswell. The U.S. Government says no. Who do you believe?
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One Phillip Corso claimed he reversed engineered the technology from the ufo crash in roswell. The U.S. Government says no. Who do you believe?
- published: 01 Feb 2008
- views: 248602
- author: Joe Ching
Don't Be a Sucker - 1947
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- Duration: 17:25
- Updated: 03 May 2013
In this anti-fascist film produced by US Military in the wake of WWII, the producers deconstructs the politically motivated social engineering of Germany by ...
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In this anti-fascist film produced by US Military in the wake of WWII, the producers deconstructs the politically motivated social engineering of Germany by ...
- published: 29 Sep 2007
- views: 111091
- author: weirdovideos
Nehru in Kashmir 1947
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This complete newsreel with original narration shows Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visiting Srinagar in November 1947. He is met by Sheikh Abdullah ...
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This complete newsreel with original narration shows Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visiting Srinagar in November 1947. He is met by Sheikh Abdullah ...
- published: 14 Mar 2006
- views: 97690
- author: harappa
Madagascar : 1947 "le train de Moramanga"
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- Duration: 12:22
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Un épisode sans doute le plus mal connu de la décolonisation française : la grande révolte de Madagascar de mars 1947. Le souvenir tragique du "TRAIN DE MORA...
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Un épisode sans doute le plus mal connu de la décolonisation française : la grande révolte de Madagascar de mars 1947. Le souvenir tragique du "TRAIN DE MORA...
- published: 19 Jul 2012
- views: 3244
- author: harlay ramanana
Women Self Defense - 1947
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Women self defense in 1947. Producer and director, William Forest Crouch. JUDO JYMNASTICS. Soundies Films, Inc., b&w;, 16mm. A Filmcraft production. Rare and ...
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Women self defense in 1947. Producer and director, William Forest Crouch. JUDO JYMNASTICS. Soundies Films, Inc., b&w;, 16mm. A Filmcraft production. Rare and ...
- published: 10 Oct 2011
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- author: Krav Maga Worldwide Barcelona
![India's Independence Day, 1947 [Full Resolution]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130511022202im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/uGxhrBa1L00/default.jpg "India's Independence Day, 1947 [Full Resolution]")
India's Independence Day, 1947 [Full Resolution]
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India's Independence Day, 1947 [Full Resolution]. Footage from India where celebrations took place on the Day of Independence from Britain. Subscribe to Brit...
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India's Independence Day, 1947 [Full Resolution]. Footage from India where celebrations took place on the Day of Independence from Britain. Subscribe to Brit...
- published: 29 Jul 2011
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Black Narcisssus 1947 - FULL FILM-
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After opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension - both with the natives and also within their own group - as they attempt ...
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After opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension - both with the natives and also within their own group - as they attempt ...
- published: 06 May 2012
- views: 456989
- author: Liron Shokty
The Creation of Pakistan - 1947
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Independence of Islamic State of Pakistan 14th August 1947 27 th Ramadhan 1366.
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Independence of Islamic State of Pakistan 14th August 1947 27 th Ramadhan 1366.
- published: 13 Jan 2011
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- author: GreaterPakistan
1947年 中華民國北平市 1947 Peking, China in color
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美國戰地記者Dimitri Kessel拍攝的1946年老北京照片Peking 1947 by Dmitri Kesse.
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美國戰地記者Dimitri Kessel拍攝的1946年老北京照片Peking 1947 by Dmitri Kesse.
- published: 12 Dec 2010
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- author: chinesekmt
Vincent Price - "The Web" 1947 (Full Movie)
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Lost film "The Web" 1947. Starring Edmond O' Brian, Vincent Price and Ella Raines. Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five year...
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Lost film "The Web" 1947. Starring Edmond O' Brian, Vincent Price and Ella Raines. Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five year...
- published: 04 Mar 2012
- views: 50433
- author: Natasha Viereck
1947 Earth Ending Scene and Etta Scollo's I Tuoi Fiori
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- published: 04 Aug 2012
- views: 1748
- author: sundotdog
1947 - Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy - Mickey and the Beanstalk
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- Duration: 28:03
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with narration by ludwig von drake The classic fairy tale retold again. In a really naive move, Mickey sells the cow for magic beans, whereupon the climb to ...
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with narration by ludwig von drake The classic fairy tale retold again. In a really naive move, Mickey sells the cow for magic beans, whereupon the climb to ...
- published: 06 Apr 2011
- views: 1951013
- author: chickenzgood
India & Pakistan Separation 1947
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This is the video which shows you the incidents took place when the India & Pakistan Separated. Look at the video what all happened in the year 1947 when Ind...
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This is the video which shows you the incidents took place when the India & Pakistan Separated. Look at the video what all happened in the year 1947 when Ind...
- published: 19 May 2010
- views: 51380
- author: pawan2love
Alien Autopsy (Area-51 UFOCRASH) Roswell 1947 Nasa X-files 2012/ Wikileaks.com
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- Duration: 1:43
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Original Roswell Film (USARMY) -The Roswell UFO Incident was a report of an object that crashed in the general vicinity of Roswell, New Mexico, in June or Ju...
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Original Roswell Film (USARMY) -The Roswell UFO Incident was a report of an object that crashed in the general vicinity of Roswell, New Mexico, in June or Ju...
- published: 13 Jun 2012
- views: 40506
- author: UFOMAXTV
California (1947)
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- Duration: 97:31
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Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ray Milland. With Anthony Quinn.
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Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ray Milland. With Anthony Quinn.
- published: 26 Oct 2012
- views: 14444
- author: woodstanwyckII
What Is Money? (1947)
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- Duration: 10:33
- Updated: 17 Apr 2013
This film follows a five-dollar bill (Federal Reserve Note G12463089B, series 34E) as it flows from person to person and performs different functions in the ...
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This film follows a five-dollar bill (Federal Reserve Note G12463089B, series 34E) as it flows from person to person and performs different functions in the ...
- published: 08 Apr 2011
- views: 1493
- author: shaggylocks
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10 May 2013
The sophistication of a global network of thieves who drained cash machines around the globe of an astonishing $45 million in mere hours sent ripples through the security world, not merely for the size of the operation and ease with which it was carried out, but also for the threat that more such thefts may be in store ... Law enforcement agencies from more than a dozen nations were involved in the investigation, U.S ... (Read More ... The U.S ... ....(size: 6.2Kb)
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08 May 2013
CLEVELAND - In the years after his friend's daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old's photo and performed music at a fundraiser held in her honor. When neighbors gathered for a candlelight vigil just a year ago to remember the girl, Castro was there too, comforting the girl's mother ... He would not say who the father was ... The house was always locked, he said ... ....(size: 9.3Kb)
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10 May 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Perhaps a backlash against newly arrived non-indigenous immigrants is justifiable, especially in reference to the recent Boston Marathon Bombing. And maybe there are a few non-native immigrants that take advantage of social uplift programs, or that commit crimes. But generally speaking, the United States of America has always been a nation of immigrants ... citizenship which took seven years....(size: 6.2Kb)
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09 May 2013
Gina DeJesus gives a thumbs-up to well-wishers as she arrives Wednesday at her family home in Cleveland after a decade in captivity with two other women. The man suspected of being her captor has been charged with kidnapping and rape. (Emmanuel Dunand, AFP/Getty Images) ... The two other men who were arrested after the women were discovered will not be charged in the case, authorities said in a news conference ... All rights reserved. ....(size: 5.9Kb)
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11 May 2013
For a group of D.C. high school students, baseball player Jackie Robinson had been a distant historical figure they knew little about ... Related stories Is Jackie Robinson movie for kids?. Fred Bowen ... Is Jason Collins the Jackie Robinson of 2013?. Mary C ... It's not 1947 ... T ... T ... He first took the field as a major league player on April 15, 1947, years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., and the Rev ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
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11 May 2013
CHLORIDE, AZ, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Hondo Minerals Corporation (OTCBB ... Both Hondo and Crowncorp intend to execute ... About Hondo Minerals ... Hondo owns the Tennessee and Schuylkill Mines in Chloride, Arizona. The Tennessee Mine operated from the late 1800s until 1947 producing lead, zinc, gold and silver. The Company also owns numerous other mining claims in the U.S. Southwest ... SOURCE Hondo Minerals Corporation. ....(size: 2.2Kb)
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The Los Angeles Times
11 May 2013
Check any correct answer to the following question. What is 42?. a) the number worn by Jackie Robinson when he played with the Brooklyn Dodgers. b) a movie about Robinson's courage in breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947. c) the number of games the Dodgers will win this season. Doug Thomson. West Los Angeles ... Perhaps the Dodgers should just put everybody on the disabled list and call it a season. Sterling Buckingham. Canyon Country ... 0....(size: 3.9Kb)
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The Examiner
11 May 2013
Rating for Memento. 3. Nolan's film tells the story of Leonard (Guy Peirce), an ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories due to a brain injury, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife (Jorja Fox) with the help of his "friend" Teddy (Joe Pantoliano), and the mysterious and equally manipulative Natalie (Carrie-Ann Moss) ... Suggested by the author.. Detour (1945). A ReviewOut of the Past (1947) ... A review. Tweet ... ....(size: 7.3Kb)
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Fox News
10 May 2013
Pakistan is scheduled to hold parliamentary elections on May 11, the first transition between democratically elected governments in a country that has experienced three military coups and constant political instability since its creation in 1947 ... that has experienced three military coups and constant political instability since its creation in 1947....(size: 3.5Kb)
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North Jersey
10 May 2013
– Lawrence "Larry" M. Anderson, 81, died on May 5. He was a graduate of High School, class of 1947. He attended Cornell University and was a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity. He was a Korean War veteran, having served as a naval radio operator ... and Valcor Engineering ... ....(size: 1.3Kb)
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10 May 2013
Founded in Maumee, Ohio, in 1947, the company conducts business across North America in the grain, ethanol, and plant nutrient sectors, railcar leasing, turf and cob products, and consumer retailing ... ....(size: 1.0Kb)
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10 May 2013
(Source. The Andersons Inc). MAUMEE, Ohio, May 10, 2013/PRNewswire/ -- The Andersons, Inc ... (Logo ... Founded in Maumee, Ohio, in 1947, the company conducts business across North Americain the grain, ethanol, and plant nutrient sectors, railcar leasing, turf and cob products, and consumer retailing ... (noodl....(size: 1.3Kb)
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Golf Channel
10 May 2013
Senior Amateur. Perhaps more famously, the course also played host to the 1946 PGA Championship, won by Ben Hogan, as well as the 1947 Ryder Cup, which featured an American team captained by Hogan and inclusive of golfing greats Walter Hagen, Jimmy Demaret, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson ... (2016) ... ....(size: 1.2Kb)
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North Jersey
10 May 2013
A chronology of key events in Pakistan's history.. —Aug. 14, 1947. Pakistan is founded when British rule over the region ends and the Asian subcontinent is partitioned into Islamic Pakistan, divided into East and West, and predominantly Hindu India. —Sept ... —Oct ... ....(size: 1.3Kb)
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Stockhouse
10 May 2013
Penn National Gaming, Inc. (PENN ... Originally opened in 1947, Rosecroft is located approximately 13 miles south of Washington, D.C. just outside the Washington Beltway ... A rendering of Penn National’s proposed resort development is available at ... Originally opened in 1947 and closed in 2010 following the end of live racing a year earlier, Penn National re-opened the facility in 2011 for live harness racing and race simulcasting ... ....(size: 6.8Kb)
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(Source. Penn National Gaming Inc). WYOMISSING, Pa. & OXON HILL, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May. 10, 2013-- Penn National Gaming, Inc. (PENN ... Originally opened in 1947, Rosecroft is located approximately 13 miles south of Washington, D.C ... www.rosecroft.com ... Originally opened in 1947 and closed in 2010 following the end of live racing a year earlier, Penn National re-opened the facility in 2011 for live harness racing and race simulcasting ... Source....(size: 7.3Kb)
This article is about the year 1947.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1910s 1920s 1930s – 1940s – 1950s 1960s 1970s |
| Years: | 1944 1945 1946 – 1947 – 1948 1949 1950 |
| 1947 by topic: |
| Subject |
| By country |
| Leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Works and introductions categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 1947 MCMXLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2700 |
| Armenian calendar | 1396 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6697 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 103–104 |
| Bengali calendar | 1354 |
| Berber calendar | 2897 |
| British Regnal year | 11 Geo. 6 – 12 Geo. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2491 |
| Burmese calendar | 1309 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7455–7456 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙戌年十二月初十日 (4583/4643-12-10) — to —
丁亥年十一月二十日(4584/4644-11-20) |
| Coptic calendar | 1663–1664 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1939–1940 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5707–5708 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2003–2004 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1869–1870 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5048–5049 |
| Holocene calendar | 11947 |
| Iranian calendar | 1325–1326 |
| Islamic calendar | 1366–1367 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 22 (昭和22年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4280 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 36 民國36年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2490 |
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Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
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January and February 1947 are remembered for the worst snowfalls in the UK in the 20th century, with extensive disruption of travel.[1] Given the low car ownership this is mainly remembered in terms of the effects on the railway networks.[2][3]
January[link]
- January 1
- British coal mines are nationalized.
- Nigeria gains limited autonomy.
- The Canadian Citizenship Act comes into effect.
- January 3 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
- January 10 – The United Nations takes control of the free city of Trieste.
- January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The case remains unsolved to this day.
- January 16 – Vincent Auriol is inaugurated as president of France.
- January 19 – A shipwreck near Athens, Greece kills 392.
- January 24 – Dimitrios Maximos founds a monarchist government in Athens.
- January 25 – A Philippine plane crashes in Hong Kong, with $5 million worth of gold and money.
- January 30–February 8 – A heavy blizzard in Canada buries towns from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Calgary, Alberta.
- January 31 – The Communists take power in Poland.
February[link]
- February 3
- The lowest air temperature in North America (-63 degrees Celsius) is recorded in Snag, Yukon Territory.
- Percival Prattis becomes the first African-American news correspondent allowed in the United States House of Representatives and Senate press galleries.
- February 5
- Bolesław Bierut becomes the President of Poland.
- The Government of the United Kingdom announces the £25 million Tanganyika groundnut scheme for cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory.[4]
- February 6 – South Pacific Commission (SPC) founded.
- February 8 – A dance hall fire in Berlin, Germany, kills over 80 people.
- February 10 – In Paris, France, peace treaties are signed between the World War II Allies and Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Finland. Italy cedes most of Istria to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- February 12
- A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
- Christian Dior introduces The "New Look" in women's fashion, in Paris.
- February 17 – Cold War: The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
- February 20
- An explosion at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Company in Los Angeles, California, leaves 17 dead, 100 buildings damaged, and a 22-foot-deep (6.7 m) crater in the ground.
- U.S. Army Ordnance Corps Hermes project V-2 rocket Blossom I launched into space carrying plant material and fruitflies, the first animals to enter space.
- February 21 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", his Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
- February 22 – Tom and Jerry cartoon Cat Fishin', is released.
- February 23 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
- February 25
- John C. Hennessy, Jr., brings the first Volkswagen Beetle to the United States. He purchased the 1946 VW from the U.S. Army Post Exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, while serving in the U.S. Army. The Beetle was shipped from Bremerhaven, arriving in New York this day.[5]
- The state of Prussia officially ceases to exist.
- The worst-ever train crash in Japan kills 184 people.
- February 28
- The United States grants France a military base in Casablanca.
- In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with large loss of civilian lives.
March[link]
- March 1
- The International Monetary Fund begins to operate.
- Wernher von Braun marries his first cousin, the 18-year-old Maria von Quirstorp.
- March 4 – Treaty of Dunkirk (coming into effect 8 September) signed between the United Kingdom and France providing for mutual assistance in the event of attack.
- March 6 – USS Newport News, the first completely air-conditioned warship,[citation needed] is launched in Newport News, Virginia.
- March 9 – Carrie Chapman Catt dies in New Rochelle.
- March 12 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
- March 14 – The River Thames overruns its banks.
- March 15 – Hindus and Muslims clash in Punjab.
- March 19 – The 19th Academy Awards ceremony is held. The movie Best Years of Our Lives wins the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with several other Academy Awards.
- March 25 – A coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois, kills 111 miners.
- March 28 – A World War II Japanese booby trap explodes on Corregidor island, killing 28 people.
- March 29 – A rebellion against French rule erupts in Madagascar.
- March 31 – The leaders of the Kurdish People's Republic of Mahabad, the second Kurdish state in the history of Iran, are hanged at the Chuwarchira Square in Mahabad after that country had been overrun by the Iranian army.
April[link]
- April 1
- Jackie Robinson, the first African American in modern Major League Baseball, signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- King George II of Greece is succeeded by his brother King Paul I.
- April 4 – International Civil Aviation Organization
- April 9 – Multiple tornadoes strike Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas killing 181 people and injuring 970.
- April 15 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play modern Major League Baseball.
- April 16 – Texas City Disaster: the ammonium nitrate cargo of former Liberty ship SS Grandcamp explodes in Texas City, Texas, killing 552, injuring 3,000, causing 200 lost,[clarification needed] and destroying 20 city blocks.
- April 18 – Royal Navy detonates 6,800 tons of explosives in an attempt to demolish the fortified island of Heligoland, Germany, thus creating one of the largest man-made non-nuclear explosions in history.
- April 26 – Academy-Award winning Tom and Jerry cartoon, The Cat Concerto, is released to theatres.
May[link]
- May 1 – The Salvatore Giuliano Gang opens fire on a labor parade near Portella Della Ginestra, Sicily, killing 11 people and wounding 30.
- May 2 – The movie Miracle on 34th Street, a Christmastime classic, is first shown in theaters.
- May 3 – The new post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
- May 12 – The animated cartoon film Rabbit Transit, directed by Friz Freleng, is released.
- May 22
- The Cold War begins: 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.
- David Lean's film Great Expectations, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, opens in the United States. Critics call it the finest film ever made from a Charles Dickens novel.
- May 25 – An airliner of the Flugfelag Íslands crashes into a mountainside, killing 25 people.
June[link]
- June 5 – U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for American reconstruction and relief aid to Europe.
- June 10 – SAAB produces its first automobile.
- June 11–15 – First Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is held in Wales.[6]
- June 15 – The Portuguese government orders 11 military officers and 19 university professors who were accused of revolutionary activity to resign.
- June 21
- Seaman Harold Dahl claims to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island in Puget Sound, Washington. On the next morning, Dahl reports the first modern so-called "Men in Black" encounter.
- The Canadian Parliament votes unanimously to pass several laws regarding displaced foreign refugees.
- June 23 – The United States Senate follows the House of Representatives in overriding President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
- June 24 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely-reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
July[link]
- July 7 – A supposedly downed extraterrestrial spacecraft is reportedly found in the Roswell UFO incident, near Roswell, New Mexico, which was written about by Stanton T. Friedman.
- July 10 – Princess Elizabeth announces her engagement to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.
- July 11 – The Exodus leaves France for Palestine, with 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survivor refugees on board.
- July 17 – The Indian passenger ship Ramdas is capsized by a cyclone at Mumbai, India, with 625 people killed.
- July 18
- Following wide media and UNSCOP coverage, The Exodus is captured by British troops and refused entry into Palestine at the port of Haifa.
- President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law, which places the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate next in the line of succession after the Vice President.
- July 26 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. 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.
- July 29 – After being shut down on November 9, 1946, for a refurbishment, the ENIAC computer, the world's first electronic digital computer, is turned back on again. It next remains in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
August[link]
- August 5 – The Netherlands stops all political actions in Indonesia.
- August 7
- Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day, 4,300 mile, voyage across the Eastern Pacific Ocean, proving that pre-historic peoples could hypothetically have traveled to the Central Pacific islands from South America.
- The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
- August 14
- The Muslim majority region formed by the Partition of India gain independence from the British Empire and adopts the name Pakistan. While the transition is officially at midnight on this day, Pakistan celebrates its independence on August 14, compared with India on the 15th, because the Pakistan Standard Time is 30 minutes behind the standard time of India.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah becomes the first Governor General of Pakistan. Liaqat Ali Khan takes office as the first Prime Minister of Pakistan
- August 15
- The greater Indian subcontinent with a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims,Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Jews, etc. formed by the Partition of India gain independence from the British Empire and retains the name India.
- Louis Mountbatten becomes the first Governor General of India. Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as the first Prime Minister of India.
- August 16 – In Greece, General Markos Vafiadis takes over the government.
- August 23 – The Prime Minister of Greece, Dimitrios Maximos, resigns.
- August 27 – When the French government lowers the daily bread ration to 200 grams, that causes riots in Verdun and in Le Mans.
- August 30 – A fire at a movie theater in Rueil, a suburb of Paris, France kills 87 people.
- August 31 – The communists seize power in Hungary.
September[link]
- September 10 – Hasan Saka forms the new government of Turkey. (16 th government)
- September 13 – Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru suggests the exchange of four million Hindus and Muslims between India and Pakistan.
- September 17–September 21 – The 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane in southeastern Florida, and also in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, causes widespread damage and kills 51 people.
- September 18
- National Security Act of 1947 becomes effective on this day creating the United States Air Force, National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.
- War Department becomes the Department of the Army, a branch of the new Department of Defense.
- September 22 – Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties (Communist Information Bureau) ("Cominform") is founded.
- September 30 – Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
October[link]
- October 5 – President Harry S. Truman delivers the first televised White House address speaking on the world food crises.
- October 14 – The United States Air Force test pilot, Captain Chuck Yeager, flies a Bell X-1 rocket plane faster than the speed of sound, the first time it has been accomplished
- October 20 – A war begins in Kashmir, along the border between India and Pakistan, leading to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 in the following year. Also, Pakistan established diplomatic relations with the United States of America.
- October 24 – The first Azad Kashmir Government is established by the Freedom Fighters within Pakistan, headed by Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan as its first President supported by the government of Pakistan.
- October 30 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is established.
November[link]
- November 2
- In Long Beach, California, the designer and airplane pilot Howard Hughes carries out the one and only flight of the Hughes H - 1 Hercules seaplane, the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built and flown. This flight only lasted eight minutes.
- An earthquake in the Chilean Andes kills 233 people.
- November 6 – The program Meet the Press makes its television debut on the NBC-TV network in the United States.
- November 9 – Junagadh is invaded by the Indian army.
- November 10 – The arrest of four steel workers in Marseille begins a French communist riot that also spreads to Paris.
- November 15
- International Telecommunication Union becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
- Universal Postal Union (UPU) becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations (effective 1 July 1948).
- November 16
- November 18 – The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41 people.
- November 20
- The Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II), the daughter of George VI, marries The Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey in London, United Kingdom.
- Paul Ramadier resigns as the Prime Minister of France. He is succeeded by Robert Schuman, who calls 80,000 army reservists to quell rioting miners in France.
- November 21 – The United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment begins in Havana, Cuba. This conference ends in 1948, when its members finish the Havana Charter.
- November 24 – Red Scare: The U.S. House of Representatives votes 346 – 17 to approve citations of Contempt of Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10, after the ten men refuse to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of communist influences in the movie business. (The ten men are blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios on the following day.)
- November 25 – The Parliament of New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster, and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
- November 27 – In Paris, France, police occupy the editorial offices of the communist newspapers.
- November 29 – The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arab and Jewish regions, which results in the creation of the State of Israel.
December[link]
- December 3
- French communist strikers derail the Paris-Tourcoing express train because of false rumors that it was transporting soldiers. 21 people are killed.
- The Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Marlon Brando in his first great role, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway. Jessica Tandy also stars as Blanche Du Bois.[1]
- December 4 – The French Interior Minister, Jules S. Moch, takes emergency measures against his country's rioters after six days of violent arguments in the National Assembly.
- December 6 – Arturo Toscanini conducts a concert performance of the first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello, which was based on William Shakespeare's play Othello, for a broadcast on NBC Radio. The second half of the opera is broadcast a week later.[2]
- December 9 – French labor unions call off the general strike and re-commence negotiations with the French government.
- December 12 – The Iranian Royal Army takes back power in the Azerbaijan province.
- 21 December - 400,000 slaughtered during mass migration of Hindus and Muslims into the new states India and Pakistan.
- December 22
- The Italian Constituent Assembly votes to accept the new Constitution of Italy.
- The first practical electronic transistor is demonstrated by Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley of the United States.
- December 30 – King Michael of Romania abdicates.
Date unknown[link]
- The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is introduced.
- The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigations into communism in Hollywood.
- Cambridge University begins to admit women as full students.
- Mikhail Kalashnikov's AK-47 assault rifle is accepted as the standard small arm of the Soviet military.
- Raytheon produces the first commercial microwave oven.
- Women's suffrage is granted in Argentina.
- In a cave in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea), several tall pottery jars containing leather scrolls are discovered, which later become known as the Dead Sea scrolls.[7]
- By the discovery of promethium in the products of nuclear fission, the last remaining gap of the periodic table is closed.
In Fiction[link]
The song Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band mentions Sgt. Pepper teaching the band to play "20 years ago today". This would place the event somewhere between February 1 and June 1 of 1947.
Births[link]
January[link]
- January 1
- Frances Yip, Hong Kong singer
- Vladimir Titov, Russian cosmonaut
- Leon Patillo, American Christian musician
- January 2 – Jack Hanna, American zoologist
- January 4 – Chris Cutler, English percussionist
- January 5 – Mercury Morris, American football player
- January 6 – Sandy Denny, British singer (d. 1978)
- January 7 – Shobha De, Indian writer
- January 8
- David Bowie, English rock musician
- Samuel Schmid, Swiss Federal Councilor
- Terry Sylvester, English singer and musician
- Laurie Walters, American actress (Eight Is Enough)
- January 9 – Ronnie Landfield, American artist
- January 11 – Mart Smeets, Dutch sports journalist
- January 14 – Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (d. 2003)
- January 16
- Laura Schlessinger, American radio and TV talk show hostess
- Apasra Hongsakula, Miss Universe 1965
- January 18 – Takeshi Kitano, Japanese film director and actor
- January 19 – Paula Dean, Food Channel star
- January 21 – Jill Eikenberry, American actress
- January 23
- Thomas R. Carper, U.S. Senator from Delaware
- Megawati Sukarnoputri, former President of Indonesia
- January 24
- Michio Kaku, American theoretical physicist
- Warren Zevon, American rock musician (Werewolves of London) (d. 2003)
- Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer
- January 25 – Eduardo Goncalves de Andrade, Brazilian football player
- January 29 – Linda B. Buck, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- January 30 – Steve Marriott, British rock musician (Small Faces, Humble Pie) (d. 1991)
- January 31 – Nolan Ryan, American baseball player
February[link]
- February 1 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983)
- February 2 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (Charlie's Angels) (d. 2009)
- February 3
- Melanie Safka, American rock singer
- Paul Auster, American novelist
- February 4
- Dan Quayle, Vice President of the United States 1989–1993
- Dennis C. Blair, American admiral and Director of National Intelligence
- February 5 – Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver and broadcaster
- February 7 – Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (Mickey Mouse) (d. 2009)
- February 10
- Louise Arbour, Canadian jurist
- Nicholas Owen, English newsreader (ITN)
- February 11
- Yukio Hatoyama, Prime Minister of Japan 2009-2010
- Derek Shulman, Lead Singer of Gentle Giant
- February 12 – Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Punjabi saint, Sikh theologian, military leader (d. 1984)
- February 13 – Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball coach
- February 15 – John Coolidge Adams, American composer
- February 18
- Princess Christina of the Netherlands
- Dennis DeYoung, American rock musician (Styx)
- February 20
- Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
- Peter Strauss, American actor
- February 21 – Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (d. 2006)
- February 24 – Edward James Olmos, American actor (Stand and Deliver)
- February 25 – Doug Yule, American rock singer and musician (The Velvet Underground)
- February 26 – Sandie Shaw, British singer
- February 27 – Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist
- February 28 – Stephanie Beacham, English actress
March[link]
- March 4
- David Franzoni, American screenwriter
- Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
- Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre)
- Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993)
- March 6
- Kiki Dee, English pop singer
- Dick Fosbury, American athlete
- Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
- Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian producer and director (All in the Family)
- March 7 – Walter Röhrl, German race car driver
- March 8 – Carole Bayer Sager, American singer and songwriter
- March 10
- Kim Campbell, a Prime Minister of Canada
- Tom Scholz, American musician, songwriter and inventor
- March 11 – David Ferguson, American music producer and activist
- March 12
- Kalervo Palsa, a Finnish artist
- Mitt Romney, a former Governor of Massachusetts
- March 13 – Beat Richner, Swiss pediatrician and cellist
- March 14 – Pam Ayres, British poet
- March 15 – Ry Cooder, American guitarist
- March 16
- Baek Yoon-sik, a South Korean actor
- Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist
- March 17 – Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born composer and producer
- March 19 – Glenn Close, American actress
- March 20 – John Boswell, American historian (d. 1994)
- March 22 – James Patterson, American author
- March 24
- Louise Lanctôt, Canadian terrorist and writer
- Alan Sugar, English entrepreneur
- March 25 – Elton John, English rock singer, pianist and songwriter
- March 27 – Walt Mossberg, American newspaper columnist
April[link]
- April 1 – Alain Connes, French mathematician
- April 2
- Emmylou Harris, American singer-songwriter
- Camille Paglia, American literary critic
- April 4 – Eliseo Soriano, Philippine preacher
- April 5 – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, incumbent Philippine president and daughter of former president Diosdado Macapagal
- April 6 – John Ratzenberger, American actor (Cheers)
- April 8
- Tom DeLay, American politician
- Robert Kiyosaki, American investor, businessman, self-help author, motivational speaker, game inventor, financial literacy activist, and occasional financial commentator
- April 12
- Tom Clancy, American author
- David Letterman, American talk show host
- April 15
- Lois Chiles, American actress (Moonraker)
- Mike Chapman, Australian-born record producer and songwriter
- April 16
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American pro basketball player
- Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer and songwriter (d. 2011)
- April 17 – Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor and director
- April 18
- Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)
- James Woods, American actor
- April 19 – Murray Perahia, American pianist
- April 20 – Hector, Finnish rock musician
- April 21 – Iggy Pop, American rock musician
- April 25 – Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer and coach
- April 28 – Ken St. Andre, American game designer and author
- April 29 – Tommy James, American rock singer and producer (Mony Mony)
- April 30 – Leslie Grantham, English actor
May[link]
- May 4 – Theda Skocpol, American sociologist
- May 6 – Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
- May 8 – H. Robert Horvitz, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- May 11 – Walter Selke, German physicist
- May 12 – Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician, philosopher and historian
- May 13 – Stephen R. Donaldson, American novelist
- May 19 – Paul Brady, Northern Irish singer/songwriter
- May 24 – Maude Barlow, Canadian author, activist and National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians
- May 26 – Glenn Turner, New Zealand cricket captain
- May 27
- Branko Oblak, Slovenian football player and coach
- Peter DeFazio, American politician
- May 29 – Stan Zemanek, Australian radio broadcaster (d. 2007)
June[link]
- June 1
- Ronnie Wood, English rock musician (The Faces, The Rolling Stones)
- Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor
- June 4 – Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
- June 6
- David Blunkett, British politician
- Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer
- Robert Englund, American actor (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
- June 7 – Thurman Munson, American baseball catcher (d. 1979)
- June 8 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- June 14 – Barry Melton, American rock musician (Country Joe and the Fish)
- June 15 – John Hoagland, American war photographer (d. 1984)
- June 16 – -minu, Swiss columnist and writer
- June 19
- Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
- Salman Rushdie, Indian-born British author (The Satanic Verses)
- June 20 – Candy Clark, American actress
- June 21
- Meredith Baxter, American actress (Family Ties)
- Shirin Ebadi, Iranian activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Michael Gross, American actor (Family Ties)
- Fernando Savater, Spanish philosopher and author
- June 22
- Octavia E. Butler, American author (d. 2006)
- David Lander, American actor and baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)
- Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)
- Jerry John Rawlings, former President of Ghana
- June 25 – Jimmie Walker, American actor (Good Times)
- June 28 – Mark Helprin, American writer
- June 29 – David Chiang, Hong Kong actor
July[link]
- July 2 – Larry David, American actor, writer, producer and director
- July 3
- Dave Barry, American writer
- Betty Buckley, American actress and singer
- July 6 – Larnelle Harris, American Christian musician
- July 7
- Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat
- Richard Beckinsale, English actor (d. 1979)
- July 8 – Bobby Sowell, American pianist and composer
- July 9
- Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
- Mitch Mitchell, English rock drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (d. 2008)
- O. J. Simpson, American football player and actor (The Naked Gun)
- July 10 – Arlo Guthrie, American folk singer (The City of New Orleans)
- July 17 – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, British Princess and second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
- July 18 – Steven W. Mahoney, Canadian politician
- July 19
- Bernie Leadon, American musician and songwriter (Eagles)
- Brian May, English rock guitarist (Queen)
- July 20
- Gerd Binnig, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Carlos Santana, Mexican-born rock guitarist
- July 21 – Co Adriaanse, Dutch football manager
- July 22
- Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian and director
- Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and musician (Eagles)
- July 23
- Larry Manetti, American actor (Magnum, P.I.)
- Spencer Christian, American television weather reporter
- July 24 – Peter Serkin, American pianist
- July 27 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (d. 2008)
- July 30
- William Atherton, American actor
- Al Dubois, Canadian television personality and game show host (Bumper Stumpers)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and 38th Governor of California
- July 31
- Richard Griffiths, English actor
- Joe Wilson, American Republican U.S. House of Representative for South Carolina's 2nd congressional district
August[link]
- August 3 – Colleen Corby, American fashion model
- August 6 – Mohammad Najibullah, former President of Afghanistan (d. 1996)
- August 7 – Franciscus Henri, Dutch-born Australian children's entertainer, composer and artist
- August 8 – Terangi Adam, Nauruan politician
- August 9 – John Varley, American science-fiction author
- August 10
- Ian Anderson, British rock musician (Jethro Tull)
- Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian politician
- August 12 – William Hartston, British chess player
- August 14 – Maddy Prior, English folk singer
- August 15 – Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress
- August 16 – Marc Messier, Canadian actor
- August 19
- Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
- Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d. 2007)
- August 23 – Willy Russell, British playwright
- August 24 – Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
- August 26 – Emiliano Díez, Cuban actor
- August 27 – Barbara Bach, American actress (The Spy Who Loved Me)
- August 28 – Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress, Otis Surratt
- August 29 – Temple Grandin, American animal welfare and autism expert
- August 30 – Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat
- August 31
- Ramon Castellano de Torres, Spanish painter
- Somchai Wongsawat, Thai 26th Prime Minister
September[link]
- September 1 – Al Green, an American politician
- September 3 – Kjell Magne Bondevik, the Prime Minister of Norway
- September 5 – Kiyoshi Takayama, Japanese yakuza boss
- September 6
- Bruce Rioch, a Scottish footballer and coach
- Jane Curtin, an American actress and comedienne
- September 8 – Benjamin Orr, American singer and songwriter, a guitarist, and a singer for the band The Cars (d. 2000)
- September 9 – Freddy Weller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist for the band Paul Revere & The Raiders.
- September 14 – Sam Neill, an actor from New Zealand (A Cry in the Dark)
- September 16 – Russ Abbot, a British comedian and actor
- September 17 – Tessa Jowell, a British politician
- September 19 – Steve Bartlett, a U.S. Congressman and the former mayor of Dallas, Tex.
- September 21
- Don Felder, American musician and songwriter (the Eagles)
- Stephen King, American horror author
- September 22
- Norma McCorvey, American abortion plaintiff (Roe v. Wade)
- Jo Beverley, English-Canadian writer
- September 23 – Mary Kay Place, an American actress and singer
- September 25 – Ali Parvin, an Iranian footballer and coach
- September 26 – Lynn Anderson, an American country-music singer
- September 27
- Dick Advocaat, a Dutch football manager
- Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday), an American rock singer and actor.
- September 28 – Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001 and 2009–present)
- September 30
- Marc Bolan, English rock musician (T. Rex) (d. 1977)
- Rula Lenska, English actress
October[link]
- October 1
- Aaron Ciechanover, an Israeli biologist, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Stephen Collins, an American actor (7th Heaven)
- October 2 – Ward Churchill, American author and activist
- October 4 – Ann Widdecombe, British politician
- October 5 – Brian Johnson, English rock singer (AC/DC)
- October 6 – Gail Farrell, American singer
- October 7 – Pip Williams, British record producer
- October 9 – France Gall, a French singer
- October 10 – Larry Lamb, British Actor
- October 13 – Sammy Hagar, an American rock singer
- October 14 – Lukas Resetarits, an Austrian singer and actor
- October 16 – Bob Weir, an American rock guitarist (the Grateful Dead)
- October 17
- Gene Green, an American politician
- Michael McKean, an American actor and comedian (Laverne and Shirley)
- October 18 – James H. Fallon, an American neuroscientist
- October 19 – Giorgio Cavazzano, an Italian comics artist and illustrator
- October 22 – Ed Welch, an English TV-music composer
- October 24 – Kevin Kline, an American actor
- October 25 – Glenn Tipton, an English rock guitarist (Judas Priest)
- October 26
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, a formerFirst Lady of the United States, a former senator from New York State, and the current American Secretary of State
- Trevor Joyce, an Irish poet
- Jaclyn Smith, an American actress (Charlie's Angels)
- October 29 – Richard Dreyfuss, an American actor (Mr. Holland's Opus)
- October 30 – Timothy B. Schmit, an American musician (the Eagles)
- October 31 – Herman Van Rompuy, a noted Belgian politician
November[link]
- November 5 – Rubén Juárez, Argentine bandoneonist and singer-songwriter of tango (d. 2010)
- November 6
- E. Lee Spence, pioneer underwater archaeologist and treasure hunter
- Jim Rosenthal, ITV sport presenter
- November 7
- Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese professional baseball player
- Sondhi Limthongkul, Thai journalist, writer and founder of Manager Daily, also leader of PAD
- November 8
- Minnie Riperton, American R&B singer (Lovin' You) (d. 1979)
- Cassandra B. Whyte, American educator and higher education administrator
- November 9 – Phil Driscoll, American Christian musician and trumpet player
- November 10 – Glen Buxton, American rock guitarist (Alice Cooper) (d. 1997)
- November 13 – Joe Mantegna, American actor
- November 14 – P. J. O'Rourke, American journalist and satirist
- November 15 – Steven G. Kellman, American author and critic
- November 17 – Inky Mark, Canadian politician
- November 19
- Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager
- Anfinn Kallsberg, former Faroese Prime Minister
- Lamar S. Smith, American politician
- November 20 – Joe Walsh, American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Eagles)
- November 21
- Chua Ek Kay, Singaporean painter (d. 2008)
- Nickolas Grace, British actor
- November 23 – Alphons Orie, Dutch criminal lawyer and judge
- November 24
- Mike Gorman, American sports announcer (Boston Celtics)
- Dwight Schultz, American actor (The A-Team)
- November 25 – John Larroquette, American actor (Night Court)
- November 27 – Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of Djibouti
- November 29 – Mirza Khazar, an eminent Azerbaijani author, political analyst, legendary anchorman, translator of the Bible into Azerbaijani language.
- November 30
- Véronique Le Flaguais, Canadian actress
- Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet
- David Mamet, American playwright
- Stuart Baird, English film editor, producer and director
- Jude Ciccolella, American actor
December[link]
- December 1 – Bob Fulton, English-born Australian rugby league player
- December 2 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)
- December 7 – Wendy Padbury, British actress
- December 8
- Thomas R. Cech, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Gérard Blanc, French singer
- December 9 – Tom Daschle, U.S. Senator
- December 10 – Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
- December 12 – Will Alsop, English architect
- December 14
- Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
- Dilma Rousseff, 36th President of Brazil
- December 16
- Ben Cross, English actor
- Vincent Matthews, American athlete
- December 18 – Leonid Yuzefovich, Russian crime fiction writer
- December 21
- Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist
- Bryan Hamilton, Irish footballer and football manager
- December 22 – Mitsuo Tsukahara, Japanese gymnast
- December 26 – Carlton Fisk, American baseball player
- December 28 – Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (d. 2000)
- December 29 – Ted Danson, American actor (Cheers)
- December 30 – Jeff Lynne, British musician (Electric Light Orchestra)
- December 31
- Burton Cummings, Canadian rock musician (The Guess Who)
- Tim Matheson, American actor, film director and producer (Animal House)
Date unknown[link]
- Jean-François Batellier, French political cartoonist
- Peter Irniq, Commissioner of Nunavut
- Stephen LaBerge, Lucid dream researcher
- Jamie Donnelly, an American film and stage actress
Deaths[link]
January–June[link]
- January 3 – Al Herpin (The Man Who Never Slept), notable insomniac (b. 1853)
- January 9 – Herman Bing, German actor (b. 1889)
- January 15 – Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia), famous murder victim (b. 1924)
- January 20
- Andrew Volstead, American politician (b. 1860)
- Josh Gibson, African-American baseball player (b. 1911)
- January 23 – Pierre Bonnard, French painter (b. 1867)
- January 25 – Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
- January 26
- Grace Moore, American opera singer (b. 1898)
- Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, Swedish prince (b. 1906)
- January 27 – Vasily Balabanov, administrator and Provincial Governor of Imperial Russia (b.1873)
- February 6 – O. Max Gardner, Governor of North Carolina
- February 11 – Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler (b.1884)
- February 12
- Kurt Lewin, German-American psychologist (b. 1890)
- Sidney Toler, American actor (Charlie Chan) (b. 1874)
- February 27 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1868)
- March 5 – Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
- March 11 – Victor Lustig, Austrian-born con artist (b. 1890)
- March 12 – Walter Samuel Goodland, Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1862)
- March 18 – William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
- March 19 – Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (b. 1896)
- March 20 – Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (b. 1888)
- March 21 – Homer Lusk Collyer, American hermit brother (Collyer brothers) (b. 1881)
- March 23 – Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
- March 25 – Chen Cheng-po, Taiwanese painter (b. 1895)
- March 28 – Karol Świerczewski, Polish military leader (b. 1897)
- March 30 – Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (b. 1863)
- April 1 – King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
- April 7 – Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)
- April 8 – Langley Collyer, American hermit brother (Collyer brothers) (b. 1885)
- April 10 – John Ince, American actor (b. 1878)
- April 16 – Rudolf Höss, German commandant of Auschwitz (b. 1900)
- April 20 – King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
- April 24 – Willa Siebert Cather, American novelist (b. 1873)
- May 8 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (b. 1858)
- May 13 – Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet (b. 1926)
- May 16 – Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b. 1861)
- May 17 – George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
- May 18 – Lucile Gleason, American actress (b. 1888)
- May 20 – Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- May 24 – C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
- May 28 – August Eigruber, Nazi war criminal (executed) (b. 1907)
- May 29 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, Nazi war criminal (executed) (b. 1905)
- May 30 – Georg Ludwig von Trapp, Austrian sailor, patriarch of the Von Trapp Family of The Sound of Music fame (b. 1880)
- May 31 – Adrienne Ames, American actress (b. 1907)
- June 6 – Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, former President of Poland (b. 1885)
- June 9 – J. Warren Kerrigan, American actor (b. 1879)
- June 11 – Richard Hönigswald, Hungarian-born American philosopher (b. 1875)
- June 17 – Maxwell Perkins, American literary editor (b. 1884)
- June 18 – Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese rear admiral and convicted war criminal (executed) (b. 1898)
- June 19 – Kōsō Abe, Japanese admiral (b. 1892)
- June 20 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (b. 1906)
- June 22 – Jim Tully, vagabond, pugilist, noted American writer (b. 1891)
- June 26 – Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
July–December[link]
- July 12 – Jimmie Lunceford, American jazz musician (b. 1902)
- July 15 – Brandon Hurst, Anglo American stage and screen veteran (b. 1866)
- July 15 – Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
- July 17 – Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat and humanitarian (presumed dead on this date) (b. 1912)
- July 19 – Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
- July 27 – Ivan Regen, Slovenian biologist (b. 1868)
- July 30 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
- August 8 – Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian military leader (b. 1872)
- September 1 – Frederick Russell Burnham, American Scout, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
- September 9 – Ananda Coomaraswamy, philosopher (b. 1877)
- September 20 – Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mayor of New York (b. 1882)
- September 21 – Harry Carey, American actor (b. 1878)
- September 26 – Hugh Lofting, British writer (b. 1886)
- October 1 – Olive Borden, American actress (b. 1906)
- October 4 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
- October 6 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)
- October 17 – John Halliday, American actor (b. 1880)
- October 24 – Dudley Digges, Irish actor (b. 1879)
- October 28 – Earl Snell, Governor of Oregon (plane crash) (b. 1895)
- October 29 – Frances Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland (b. 1864)
- November 1 – Man o' War, champion thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917)
- November 25 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French writer (b. 1876)
- November 28
- W. E. Lawrence, American silent film actor (b. 1896)
- Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (b. 1902)
- November 30 – Ernst Lubitsch, German film director (b. 1892)
- December 1
- Aleister Crowley, British occultist (b. 1875)
- G. H. Hardy, British mathematician (b. 1877)
- December 7
- Nicholas M. Butler, American president of Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
- Tristan Bernard, French writer and lawyer (b. 1866)
- December 14
- Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
- Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
- December 17 – J. N. Brønsted, Danish chemist (b. 1879)
- December 25 – Gaspar G. Bacon, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886)
- December 27 – Johannes Winkler, German rocket pioneer (b. 1897)
- December 28 – Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)
Nobel Prizes[link]
- Physics – Edward Victor Appleton
- Chemistry – Sir Robert Robinson
- Medicine – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay
- Literature – André Gide
- Peace – The Friends Service Council (UK) and The American Friends Service Committee (USA), on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends
References[link]
- ^ "Collection of weather statistics for the winter of 1947". http://www.winter1947.co.uk/. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
- ^ "collection of film clips of UK rail disruption in winter 1947". Archived from the original on 25 January 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm/topics/railways/background_conditions.shtml. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
- ^ "BBC newsreel, snow affecting railways 1947". http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/nationonfilm/00338?size=4x3&bgc=C0C0C0&nbram=1&bbram=1. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
- ^ Wood, Alan (1950). The Groundnut Affair. London: Bodley Head. OCLC 1841364.
- ^ Copies of the bill of sale as well as the shipping documents and a letter from the Port of New York confirming the arrival of the VW can be found in Hennessy’s book The Bride and the Beetle.
- ^ "Llangollen International Eisteddfod - How it Started". Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod. http://www.llangollen.com/eist3.html. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
- ^ "Year by Year 1947" – History Channel International
- Pathe newsreel, 1947. Experimental snowplough. Pathe says 'Grantham' but the station name 'Dowlais top' in Wales can be clearly seen
- Personal testimony of railway distruption in the winter of 1947
- Gallery of UK winter photographs
- Personal testimony of the winter of 1947
- Stories from the winter of 1947
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| Vincent Price | |
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| Born | (1911-05-27)May 27, 1911 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | October 25, 1993(1993-10-25) (aged 82) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1935–93 |
| Spouse | Edith Barrett (1938–48) Mary Grant Price (1949–73) Coral Browne (1974–91; her death) |
Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic performances in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
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Early life and career[link]
Price was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Marguerite Cobb (née Wilcox) and Vincent Leonard Price, Sr., who was the president of the National Candy Company.[1][2] His grandfather, Vincent Clarence Price, invented "Dr. Price's Baking Powder," the first cream of tartar baking powder, and secured the family's fortune.[3]
Price attended St. Louis Country Day School. He was further educated at Yale in art history and fine art. He was a member of the Courtauld Institute, London. He became interested in the theatre during the 1930s, appearing professionally on stage for the first time in 1935.
Career[link]
He made his film debut in 1938 with Service de Luxe and established himself in the film Laura (1944), opposite Gene Tierney, directed by Otto Preminger. He also played Joseph Smith, Jr. in the movie Brigham Young (1940) and William Gibbs McAdoo in Wilson (1944) as well as a pretentious priest in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944).
Price's first venture into the horror genre was in the 1939 Boris Karloff film Tower of London. The following year he portrayed the title character in the film The Invisible Man Returns (a role he reprised in a vocal cameo at the end of the 1948 horror-comedy spoof Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein).
In 1946 Price reunited with Tierney in two notable films, Dragonwyck and Leave Her to Heaven. There were also many villainous roles in film noir thrillers like The Web (1947), The Long Night (1947), Rogues' Regiment (1948), and The Bribe (1949) with Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, and Charles Laughton. His first starring role was as conman James Addison Reavis in the 1950 biopic The Baron of Arizona. He also did a comedic turn as the tycoon Burnbridge Waters, co-starring with Ronald Colman in Champagne for Caesar. He was active in radio, portraying the Robin Hood-inspired crime-fighter Simon Templar in The Saint that ran from 1943 to 1951.
In the 1950s, he moved into horror films, with a role in House of Wax (1953), the first 3-D film to land in the year's top ten at the North American box office, then The Mad Magician (1954), and then the monster movie The Fly (1958) and its sequel Return of the Fly (1959). Price also starred in the original House on Haunted Hill (1959) as the eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren. He played Dr. Warren Chapin, in The Tingler, a 1959 horror-thriller film by the American producer and director William Castle. Price also appeared to great effect in the radio drama Three Skeleton Key, the story of an island lighthouse besieged by an army of rats. He first performed the work in 1950 on Escape and returned to it in 1956 and 1958 for Suspense.[4]
Outside of the horror genre, Price played Baka (the master builder) in The Ten Commandments. In the 1955–1956 television season he appeared three times as Rabbi Gershom Seixos in the ABC anthology series, Crossroads, a study of clergymen from different denominations. About this time he also appeared on NBC's The Martha Raye Show.
1960s[link]
In the 1960s, Price had a number of low-budget successes with Roger Corman and American International Pictures (AIP) including the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Tales of Terror (1962), The Comedy of Terrors (1963), The Raven (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), and The Tomb of Ligeia (1965). He starred in The Last Man on Earth (1964), the first adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend. In 1968 Price portrayed witchhunter Matthew Hopkins in Witchfinder General[5] (released in the US as The Conqueror Worm). He starred in comedy films, notably Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) and its sequel Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966). In 1968 he played the part of an eccentric artist in the musical Darling of the Day opposite Patricia Routledge.
Price often spoke of his pleasure at playing Egghead in the Batman television series. One of his co-stars, Yvonne Craig (Batgirl), said Price was her favorite villain in the series. In an often-repeated anecdote from the set of Batman, Price, after a take was printed, started throwing eggs at series stars Adam West and Burt Ward, and when asked to stop, replied, "With a full artillery? Not a chance!", causing an eggfight to erupt on the soundstage. This incident is reenacted in the behind-the-scenes telefilm Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt. In the 1960s, he began his role as a guest on the game show Hollywood Squares, even becoming a semi-regular in the 1970s, including being one of the guest panelists on the finale in 1980.[6] He was known for usually making fun of Rose Marie's age, and using his famous voice to answer questions in a playfully menacing tone.
Later career[link]
During the early 1970s, Price hosted and starred in BBC Radio's horror and mystery series The Price of Fear. Price accepted a cameo part in the Canadian children's television program The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (1971) in Hamilton, Ontario, on the local television station CHCH. In addition to the opening and closing monologues, his role in the show was to recite poems about the show's various characters, sometimes wearing a cloak or other costumes.[7] He appeared in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), its sequel Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972), and Theatre of Blood (1973), in which he portrayed a pair of campy serial killers. That same year Price appeared as himself in Mooch Goes to Hollywood, a film written by Jim Backus. Price recorded dramatic readings of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and poems, which were collected together with readings by Basil Rathbone.
Price greatly reduced his film work from around 1975, as horror itself suffered a slump, and increased his narrative and voice work, as well as advertising Milton Bradley's Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture[8]. Price's voiceover is heard on Alice Cooper's first solo album, Welcome to My Nightmare from 1975, and he also appeared in the corresponding TV special Alice Cooper: The Nightmare. He starred for a year in the early 1970s in a syndicated daily radio program, Tales of the Unexplained. He made guest appearances in a 1970 episode of Here's Lucy showcasing his art expertise and in a 1972 episode of ABC's The Brady Bunch, in which he played a deranged archaeologist. In October 1976, Price appeared as the featured guest in an episode of The Muppet Show.
In the summer of 1977, Price began performing as Oscar Wilde in the one-man stage play Diversions and Delights. Written by John Gay and directed by Joe Hardy, the play is set in a Parisian theatre on a night about one year before Wilde's death. The original tour of the play was a success in every city that it played, except for New York City. In the summer of 1979, Price performed it at the Tabor Opera House in Leadville, Colorado, on the same stage from which Wilde had spoken to miners about art some 96 years before. Price would eventually perform the play worldwide. In her biography of her father, Victoria Price stated that several members of Price's family and friends thought that this was the best acting that he ever performed.[3] In the spring of 1979, Price starred with his wife Coral Browne in the short-lived CBS TV series Time Express.
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In 1982, Price provided the narrator's voice in Vincent, Tim Burton's six-minute film about a young boy who flashes from reality into a fantasy where he is Vincent Price. That same year, he performed a sinister monologue on the title track of Michael Jackson's Thriller album. A longer version of the rap, sans the music, along with some conversation can be heard on Jackson's 2001 remastered reissue of the Thriller album. Part of the extended version can be heard on the Thriller 25 album, released in 2008. Price appeared as Sir Despard Murgatroyd in a 1982 television production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore (with Keith Michell as Robin Oakapple). In 1983 Price played the Sinister Man in the British spoof horror film Bloodbath at the House of Death starring Kenny Everett, and he also appeared in the film House of the Long Shadows, which teamed him with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and John Carradine. While Price had worked with each one of them at least once in the prior decade, this was the first teaming of all of them together. One of his last major roles, and one of his favorites, was as the voice of Professor Ratigan in Walt Disney Pictures' The Great Mouse Detective in 1986.[9]
From 1981 to 1989, he hosted the PBS television series Mystery! In 1985, he provided voice talent on the Hanna-Barbera series The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo as the mysterious Vincent Van Ghoul, who aided Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo, and the gang in recapturing 13 evil demons. During this time (1985–1989), he appeared in horror-themed commercials for Tilex bathroom cleanser. In 1984, Price appeared in Shelley Duvall's live-action series Faerie Tale Theatre as the Mirror in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", and the narrator for "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers". In 1987, he starred with Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, and Ann Sothern in The Whales of August, a story of two sisters living in Maine, facing the end of their days. In 1989, Price was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. His last significant film work was as the inventor in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990).
A witty raconteur, Price was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, where he once demonstrated how to poach a fish in a dishwasher. Price was a noted gourmet cook and art collector. He also authored several cookbooks and hosted a cookery TV show, Cooking Pricewise.
From 1962 to 1971, Sears-Roebuck offered the "Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art", selling about 50,000 pieces of fine art to the general public. Price selected and commissioned works for the collection, including works by Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí,[10] and Nate Dunn.[11]
Personal life[link]
Price was married three times and fathered a son, Vincent Barrett Price, with his first wife, former actress Edith Barrett. Price and his second wife, Mary Grant Price, donated hundreds of works of art and a large amount of money to East Los Angeles College in the early 1960s in order to endow the Vincent and Mary Price Gallery there. The Vincent Price Art Museum was built to house art works and present exhibits. Their daughter, Mary Victoria Price, was born in 1962. Price's last marriage was to the Australian actress Coral Browne, who appeared with him (as one of his victims) in Theatre of Blood (1973). He converted to Catholicism to marry her, and she became a U.S. citizen for him.
One example of his outspoken political action came when he concluded an episode of The Saint titled "Author of Murder",[12] which aired on NBC Radio on July 30, 1950.[13] While concluding the episode, Price denounced racial and religious prejudice as a form of poison and stated that Americans must actively fight against it because racial and religious prejudice within the United States fuels support for the nation's enemies.[14] Price was later appointed under the Eisenhower Adminstration and his remarks were, "which is kind of a surprise since I am a Democrat[15]."
Death[link]
Price was a lifelong smoker. He suffered from emphysema and Parkinson's disease; his symptoms were especially severe during the filming of Edward Scissorhands, making it necessary to cut his filming schedule short.
His illness also contributed to his retirement from Mystery!, as his condition was becoming noticeable on-screen.[citation needed] He died of lung cancer on October 25, 1993, at UCLA Medical Center at the age of 82. He was cremated and his ashes scattered off Point Dume in Malibu, California.[16]
Legacy[link]
In 1951, impressed by the spirit of the students and the community's need for the opportunity to experience original art works first hand, Price donated some 90 pieces from his own collection to East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park, California, thus establishing the first "teaching art collection" owned by a community college in the U.S. The collection contains over 9,000 pieces and has been valued in excess of $5 million.[17]
The A&E Network aired an episode of Biography the night following his death, highlighting Price's horror film career, but because of its failure to clear copyrights, the show was never aired again. Four years later, A&E produced its updated episode, a show titled Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain, which aired on October 12, 1997. The script was by Lucy Chase Williams, author of The Complete Films of Vincent Price (Citadel Press, 1995). In early 1991, Tim Burton was developing a personal documentary with the working title Conversations with Vincent, in which interviews with Price were shot at the Vincent Price Gallery, but the project was never completed and was eventually shelved.[citation needed]
Price was an Honorary Board Member, and strong supporter until his death, of the Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum located in Bristol, Connecticut. The museum features detailed life-size wax replicas of characters from some of Price's films, including The Fly, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and The Masque of the Red Death.[18] A black box theater at Price's alma mater, Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School, is named after him.
Director Tim Burton directed a short stop-motion film as a tribute to Vincent Price called Vincent, about a young boy named Vincent Malloy who is obsessed with the grim and macabre. It is narrated by Price. "Vincent Twice, Vincent Twice" was a parody on Sesame Street. He was parodied in an episode of The Simpsons ("Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"). Price even had his own Spitting Image puppet, who was always trying to be "sinister" and lure people into his ghoulish traps, only for his victims to point out all the obvious flaws. The October 2005 episode of the Channel 101 series Yacht Rock featured comedian James Adomian as Vincent Price during the recording of Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Starting in November 2005, featured cast member Bill Hader of the NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live has played Price in a recurring sketch where Vincent Price hosts botched holiday specials filled with celebrities of the 1950s and '60s. Other cast members who have played Price on SNL include Dan Aykroyd and Michael McKean (who played Price when he hosted a season 10 episode and again when he was hired as a cast member for the 1994–95 season).
In 1999, a frank and detailed biography written by his daughter, Victoria Price, about her father was published by St. Martin's Press. In late May 2011, an event was held by the organization Cinema St. Louis to celebrate what would have been Price's 100th Birthday.[19] It included a public event with Victoria at the Missouri History Museum and a showcase of ephemeral and historic items at the gallery inside the Sheldon Concert Hall.[20][21]
Filmography[link]
Main article: Vincent Price filmography
References[link]
- ^ "Vincent Price Biography (1911–)". Filmreference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/34/Vincent-Price.html. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
- ^ Flint, Peter B. (1993-10-26). "Vincent Price, a Suave but Menacing Film Presence, Is Dead at 82". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEED61331F935A15753C1A965958260. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
- ^ a b Victoria Price (1999). Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-26789-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=i1QjARUM1jUC&printsec=frontcover.
- ^ One Act Virtual Museum oneact.org. Retrieved: May 20, 2012.
- ^ Vincent Price at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
- ^ "Hollywood Squares". 1980-06-20. NBC.
- ^ "CH TV Hamilton History". http://www.canada.com/chtv/hamilton/info/history.html. Retrieved 2007-01-29.
- ^ http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/monsters/1.html
- ^ "Vincent Price Collection | Old Time Radio". Otrcat.com. 2003-11-26. http://www.otrcat.com/vincent-price-collection-p-1961.html. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
- ^ Sears and Fine Art: Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art. Searsarchives.com. Retrieved on 2011-11-03.
- ^ Laura J. Kells, Paul Colton, and Allyson Jackson Vincent Price. A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.. (1994). Latest revision: 2006 April
- ^ Price. Wn.com. Retrieved on 2011-11-03.
- ^ The Saint on Old-Time Radio. Saint.org. Retrieved on 2011-11-03.
- ^ Vincent Price on Racism and Religious Prejudice. Annals of Americus (2010-03-15). Retrieved on 2011-11-03.
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=G6Mnh1z81YEC&pg=PT637&dq=Vincent+Price+Democrat&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6gaoT7T9IqKD6AHRi4WxBA&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Vincent%20Price%20Democrat&f=false
- ^ Vincent Price at Find a Grave
- ^ Aug. 1992 interview by the Smithsonian. Siris-archives.si.edu (1993-10-25). Retrieved on 2011-11-03.
- ^ "Preserve Hollywood". Preservehollywood.org. http://www.preservehollywood.org/DungeonWebNew/Home.html. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
- ^ Vincentennial.Org. Vincentennial.Org. Retrieved on 2011-11-03.
- ^ Vincentennial: It's alive! by Joe Williams, Film Critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch/STLToday.com. April 18, 2011 6:15 pm.
- ^ Sheldon Gallery Celebrates Vincent Price's 100th Birthday by Patrick Clark, KPLR11.com. 4:14 p.m. CDT, April 19, 2011.
Further reading[link]
- Price, Vincent, I Like What I Know – A Visual Autobiography, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, copyright 1959.
External links[link]
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- Three Skeleton Key on Escape: March 17, 1950. Radio drama starring Vincent Price.
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| Name | Price, Vincent |
| Alternative names | Price, Vincent Leonard, Jr. |
| Short description | actor |
| Date of birth | 1911-5-27 |
| Place of birth | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Date of death | 1993-10-25 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles, California, United States |
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| Etta Scollo | |
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| Born | (1958-05-27) May 27, 1958 (age 54) |
| Origin | Catania, Italy |
| Genres | Folk, pop, jazz |
| Occupations | Singer, Songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1988-present |
| Website | ettascollo.com |
Etta Scollo (born 27 May 1958) is an Italian singer and songwriter. Her music combines traditional Sicilian music, pop and jazz.
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Biography[link]
Born in Catania, Italy, she moved to Turin to study Architecture. She abandoned her studies to devote herself to music. Between 1983 and 1987 she worked with artists such as saxophonist Eddie Davis, Sunnyland Slim and Champion Jack Dupree, both in the recording studio and in concerts. Chance encounters with producers from the Pop music scene led to the recording of the Paul McCartney song Oh! Darling, which Etta adapted with Italian lyrics in 1988. This song became No. 1 in the Austrian charts.[1] In the 1990s she moved to Hamburg where she, along with the musical Ensemble L'art pour l'Art, undertook experiments with contemporary music. She composed film scores – for example I tuoi fiori for the film Bad Guy by Kim Ki-duk.
The Project Canta Ro' - Homage for Rosa Balistreri she brought the music of famous Sicilian singer Rosa Balistreri back to life.[2]
Discography[link]
- Etta Scollo (1989)
- Io vivro (1991)
- Blu (1999)
- Il Bianco del Tempo (2001)
- In Concerto (Live CD) (2002)
- Casa (2003)
- Canta Ro (2005)
- Canta Ro in Trio (2006)
- Les Siciliens (2007)
- Il Fiore Splendente (2008)
- Cuoresenza (2011)
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