* 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

* 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

* The Kon-Tiki ( 1947 ), a balsa raft built by Thor Heyerdahl and sailed from Peru to Polynesia to demonstrate the possibility of cultural exchange between South America and the Polynesian islands.

Norwegian scientist / adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, convinced that early contact between the peoples of South America and Polynesia was possible, built the raft Kon Tiki from balsa logs, and upon it he and his crew sailed the Pacific Ocean from Peru to the Polynesian Tuamotu Archipelago in 1947.

Due to a dispute with Thor Heyerdahl, famous for his Kon-Tiki raft used in his expedition in 1947, the name was later changed to Tiki 100.

The Kon-Tiki Museum is named after the raft on which Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in 1947.

Kon-Tiki was the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands.

* Thor Hansen ( born 1947 ), Professional Poker Player and 2 time World Series of Poker Bracelet Winner

Thor Heyerdahl recounts in Kon-Tiki ( 1947 ) the various problems of getting into the Jívaro ( Shuar ) area in Ecuador to get balsa wood for his expedition raft.

The Tuamotus made headlines around the world in 1947, when archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl, sailing from South America, reached Raroia on his raft Kon-Tiki.

On 30 July 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and his six-man expedition aboard the raft Kon Tiki made their first sighting of land since departing Callao, Peru when they passed by Puka-Puka.

The raft, which was given the name An-Tiki in reference to the Kon-Tiki raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition from South America to the Polynesian islands, was assembled during November and December 2010.

Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 4, 300 miles across the Pacific Ocean before smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7, 1947.

In 1947 almost one in five films had been comic in nature, but by 1954 this was down to ten percent.

This case was investigated in 1947 in a war crimes trial, and of 30 Japanese soldiers prosecuted, five ( Maj. Matoba, Gen. Tachibana, Adm. Mori, Capt.

When this was introduced in July 1947, it led to a currency crisis and convertibility had to be suspended after just five weeks.

Past Australian censuses were conducted in 1911, 1921, 1933, 1947, 1954, and 1961-2011 every five years.

In the five years immediately after the war, Essendon won 3 premierships ( 1946, 1949, 1950 ) and were runners up twice ( 1947, 1948 ).

Had the president ordered an atomic attack in 1947 or 1948, the 509th Composite Bomb Group would have needed five or six days to obtain the bombs from the Atomic Energy Commission and arrive at the base it would attack from.

They had seven children ( five sons and two daughters ): Eliza Arabella Garfield ( 1860 – 63 ); Harry Augustus Garfield ( 1863 – 1942 ); James Rudolph Garfield ( 1865 – 1950 ); Mary Garfield ( 1867 – 1947 ); Irvin M. Garfield ( 1870 – 1951 ); Abram Garfield ( 1872 – 1958 ); and Edward Garfield ( 1874 – 76 ).

“ A Republican less than five years earlier ,” scientist Jeff Taylor notes of HHH in 1947, “ he was now reading lifelong Farmer-Laborites out of the party .” The Humphrey fusionists vanquished “ the traditional agrarian populists within the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party .”

Schroeder ( 1947 ) lists five bands:

Archaeologists have extrapolated the Pazyryk culture from these finds: five large burial mounds and several smaller ones between 1925 and 1949, one opened in 1947 by Russian archaeologist Sergei Rudenko.

Under the influence of this doctrine, and of Phenomenology, the Hungarian-born German sociologist Karl Mannheim ( 1893 – 1947 ) gave impetus to the growth of the sociology of knowledge with his Ideologie und Utopie ( 1929, translated and extended in 1936 as Ideology and Utopia ), although the term had been introduced five years earlier by the co-founder of the movement, the German philosopher, phenomenologist and social theorist Max Scheler ( 1874 – 1928 ), in Versuche zu einer Soziologie des Wissens ( 1924, Attempts at a Sociology of Knowledge ).

Patel took charge of the task to forge a united India from the British colonial provinces allocated to India and more than five hundred self-governing princely states, released from British suzerainty by the Indian Independence Act 1947.

Over the years, the Best Foreign Language Film Award and its predecessors have been given almost exclusively to European films: out of the 64 Awards handed out by the Academy since 1947 to foreign language films, fifty one have gone to European films, five to Asian films, three to African films and three to films from the Americas.

Yet to secure a place at the table, in 1947 ABC submitted requests for licenses in the five cities where it owned radio stations ( which together represented 25 percent of the entire nationwide viewing audience at the time ).

After an official engagement of five months, as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, he married Elizabeth on 20 November 1947.

Richard won the Stanley Cup eight times in Montreal, was captain for four of the five straight cup wins from 1955-56 to 1959-60, won the Hart Trophy in 1947, was elected eight times to the first all-star team and six times to the second all-star team, and played in every National Hockey League All-Star Game from 1947 to 1959.

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor five times, four of which came in his first five years of film acting: for The Keys of the Kingdom ( 1944 ), The Yearling ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), and Twelve O ' Clock High ( 1949 ).

Zarra would go on to win this award on five other occasions ( 1946, 1947, 1950, 1951 and 1953 ).

Helsinki was chosen as the host city over bids from Amsterdam and five American cities at the 40th IOC Session on June 21, 1947, in Stockholm, Sweden.

The airline used five DC-3 aircraft to launch scheduled operations on the Jeddah-Riyadh-Hofuf-Dhahran route in March 1947, followed by its first international service between Jeddah and Cairo also in that same month.

Thirteen years before both faced off in some of the most memorable televised Presidential debates, future presidents ( and contemporary Senators ) Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy met in McKeesport for their first of five debates on April 22, 1947, to debate labor issues.

In 1947, Braathens SAFE flew twenty-five trips to Hong Kong, five to New York City and one to Johannesburg.