* 1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1947 – Mike Worboys, British mathematician

* 1947 – André Weinfeld, French and American Film Director / Producer

* 1947 – Alex Briley, American singer ( Village People )

* 1947 – Tom Clancy, American author

* 1947 – Woody Johnson, American businessman and philanthropist

* 1947 – Antonin Kratochvil, Czech-American photographer

* 1947 – Dan Lauria, American actor

* 1947 – David Letterman, American comedian and talk show host

* 1947 – Wayne Northrop, American actor

* 1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.

* 1947 – Leslie Grantham, English actor

* 1947 – Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer and composer

* 1947 – Tom Køhlert, Danish footballer

* 1947 – Manousos Manousakis, Greek director and producer

* 1947 – Mats Odell, Swedish politician

* 1947 – Barbara Bach, American actress

* 1947 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and writer ( d. 2009 )

* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer

* 1947 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( d. 2002 )

* 1947 – Harry Reems, American actor

* 1947 – Tony Dell, Australian cricketer

* 1874 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Roy Hodgson, English footballer and manager

Rohrabacher was born June 21, 1947, in Coronado, California, the son of Doris M. ( née Haring ) and Donald Tyler Rohrabacher.

* 1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California

* 1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.

Even though since the 1940s, PAN had won a couple of seats in the Congress, and in 1947 the first presidential municipality ( in Quiroga, Michoacán ), it wasn't until 1989, that the first non-PRI governor of a state was elected ( at Baja California ).

* 1947 – Buddy Miles, American singer-songwriter and drummer ( The Electric Flag and The California Raisins ) ( d. 2008 )

" Cryptic was formed as a corporation in California by Jay Clem ( born 1947 ), Homer Flynn ( born April 1945 ), Hardy W. Fox ( born 1945 ), and John Kennedy in 1976, all of whom denied having been band members.

* 1947: Adamson v. California

Wallace D. Hayes, a pioneer of supersonic flight, developed the supersonic area rule in publications beginning in 1947 with his Ph. D. thesis at the California Institute of Technology.

In 1947, the fort was transferred to the authority of California State Parks.

In 1947 Gehry moved to California, got a job driving a delivery truck, and studied at Los Angeles City College, eventually to graduate from the University of Southern California's School of Architecture.

# California ( April 15, 1947 )

The Woman on the Beach ( 1947 ) starring Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan was heavily reshot and reedited after it fared poorly among preview audiences in California.

Pioneer days in Laguna Beach and its growth from a few scattered buildings to one of the most beautiful seaside resorts in the West as well as a famous California art colony was vividly recounted by J. S. Thurston ( born in 1868 ), a son of one of the community's original settlers, in Laguna Beach of Early Days ( The Press of Murray & Gee, Culver City, California, 1947 ).

In 1947, it was purchased by the state of California for $ 1 and incorporated into the state-historic park.

The railroad arrived that same year and as logging activity increased nearby, the town became too wild for the couple and their two daughters, and they left in 1911 ( Hugh died in 1935 in Oregon, Charlotte in 1947 in California ).

In 1947, during a summer semester teaching at the California School of Fine Art, Rothko and Still flirted with the idea of founding their own curriculum, and they realized the idea in New York in the following year.

* Curt Simmons, former Major League Baseball player from 1947 – 1967, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, and California Angels.

* California ( 1947 )

On June 20, 1947, Siegel was shot and killed in Beverly Hills, California.

Grayson wed Johnston on August 22, 1947 in Carmel, California.

After leaving Ellington's Orchestra, he moved to Los Angeles, California and did sound track work, including an onscreen featured role with an allstar band led by Louis Armstrong in the 1947 film New Orleans.

Here certain movements particularly influenced by a philosophy of nonviolence should be mentioned, including Mahatma Gandhi leading a decades-long nonviolent struggle against British rule in India, which eventually helped India win its independence in 1947, Martin Luther King's and James Bevel's adoption of Gandhi's nonviolent methods in the struggle to win civil rights for African Americans, and César Chávez's campaigns of nonviolence in the 1960s to protest the treatment of farm workers in California.

After the war, Stevens attended the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA ), where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1947.