The history of video games goes as far back as the 1940s, when in 1947 Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a " cathode ray tube amusement device.

On January 25, 1947, Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a " cathode ray tube amusement device ".

Her second marriage, in December 1947, was to the famous bass player Ray Brown, whom she had met while on tour with Dizzy Gillespie's band a year earlier.

Ella Fitzgerald performing with Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown ( musician ) | Ray Brown, Milt Jackson and Timmie Rosenkrantz in September 1947, New York

He had two younger siblings ; sister Judy ( 1947 – 1951 ) and brother Jimmy Ray ( born June 20, 1948 ).

Ray Gotto's Ozark Ike ( December 21, 1947 )

From 1941 to 1947, the USO presented more than 400, 000 performances, featuring entertainers such as Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Hattie McDaniel, Eubie Blake, Ann Sheridan, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Larry Adler, Ossy Renardy, Zero Mostel, James Cagney, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Doraine and Ellis, Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, The Rockettes, Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Curly Joe DeRita, The Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Brown, Joe E. Lewis, Ray Bolger, Lucille Ball, Glenn Miller, Martha Raye, Mickey Rooney, Betty Hutton, Dinah Shore, and most famously, Bob Hope.

He closed out 1946 with a pair of losses to former light heavyweight champ Joey Maxim and heavyweight contender Elmer Ray, but promptly avenged those defeats in 1947.

* Ray Wise ( born 1947 ), American actor

Co-founded by Ray Palmer, editor of the Amazing Stories magazine, and Curtis Fuller, an accomplished editor in his own right, the magazine's inaugural edition featured an article by Kenneth Arnold who recounted in it his UFO encounter in 1947.

Ray is also appreciated by a smaller audience of cinephiles for a large number of narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963 including Bigger Than Life, Johnny Guitar, They Live by Night, and In a Lonely Place, as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can't Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death from lung cancer.

The film was twice adapted for the American Lux Radio Theater, both with the title " Stairway to Heaven ", starring Ray Milland on 27 October 1947 ( episode 587 ) and featuring David Niven on 12 April 1955 ( episode 918 ).

Ray was a marine biologist and taught at the University of Washington from 1947 until 1972.

By 1947 Kai Winding was greatly influencing the sound of Kenton's trombonists, the trumpet section included such screamers as Buddy Childers, Ray Wetzel, and Al Porcino, Jack Costanzo's bongos were bringing Latin rhythms into Kenton's sound, and a riotous version of " The Peanut Vendor " contrasted with the somber " Elegy for Alto ".

* Ray Wilson ( Scottish footballer ) ( born 1947 ), Scottish football full-back, for West Bromwich Albion

The core of what was to become Gentle Giant were the three Shulman brothers: Phil ( born 1937 ), Derek ( born 1947 ) and Ray ( born 1949 ).

In 1947, after working with Lucky Millinder, Tab Smith, J. C. Heard, and Coleman Hawkins, he replaced Ray Brown in Dizzy Gillespie's band, in which he played until 1950.

There is also an untold link between The Naked Goddess and circumstances leading to my first meeting Ray in Chicago of 1947.

* Pass That Peace Pipe ( dance )-Joan McCracken / Ray McDonald from ( Good News ) 1947

Robert Francis Ray ( born 8 April 1947 ), Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Senate from July 1981 to May 2008, representing the state of Victoria.

Clapper retained his team captaincy until his retirement as a player in 1947, ultimately serving as team captain for longer than any NHL player until Ray Bourque surpassed his total in the 1990s.

Dark Carnival is a short story collection, the debut book of Ray Bradbury, first published October 1947 by Arkham House.

In three fights with Walcott, Ray suffered a three round knockout on September 25, 1937, rebounded to outpoint Walcott on November 15, 1946, and lost the third fight by decision ( April 3, 1947 ).

In 1947, Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and Yankees GM Larry MacPhail verbally agreed to trade DiMaggio for Ted Williams, but MacPhail refused to include Yogi Berra .< ref >

The Lakers ' franchise began in 1947 when Ben Berger and Morris Chalfen of Minnesota purchased the recently disbanded Detroit Gems of the National Basketball League ( NBL ) for $ 15, 000 from Gems owner Maury Winston.

On 20 January 1947 Société des Avions Marcel Bloch became Société des Avions Marcel Dassault to reflect the name adopted by its owner.

Larry David Norman ( April 8, 1947 – February 24, 2008 ) was an American Christian musician, singer, songwriter, record label owner, and record producer, who was one of the pioneers of Christian rock music.

As a rookie, Mikan led the Chicago American Gears to the 1947 NBL title, but before the next season, owner Maurice White pulled his team out of the league and formed his own 24-team circuit called the National Professional Basketball League.

However, before the start of the 1947 – 48 NBL season Maurice White, the president of the American Gear Company and the owner of the American Gears NBL team, pulled the team out of the league.

Imperial Records is a United States based label started in 1947 by Lewis Robert Chudd ( 1911 – 1998 ) and reactivated in 2006 by current label owner, EMI.

In 1947, Syd Nathan, the founder and owner of King Records, purchased a majority interest in DeLuxe.

His first cartoon voice work was in a Warner Brothers cartoon called For He's a Jolly Good Fala, which was recorded but never filmed ( due to the death of Fala's owner, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ), followed by Roughly Squeaking ( 1946 ) as Bertie ; and in 1947, he was heard in It's a Grand Old Nag ( Charlie Horse ), produced and directed by Bob Clampett for Republic Pictures ; The Goofy Gophers ( Tosh ), and One Meat Brawl ( Grover Groundhog and Walter Winchell ).

Over the years the estate passed through several owners and in 1947 Wrexham Council was given the hall and park by the then owner Alderman William Aston.

* Arden Eddie-( born 1947 ) Former Iron Man participant, team owner and manager in the Intercounty Baseball League

The Austrian immigrant Hanz Arno, owner of an electric motor manufacturer in Brazil since the 1940s, released a blender in 1947, based on the blenders made by Hamilton Beach and Oster.

She was also loaned to Paramount to play Fritzi Haller in Desert Fury ( 1947 ) in which she played the tough owner of a saloon and casino in a small mining town.

During spring training 1947, Durocher became involved in an unseemly feud with the new Yankee owner, Larry MacPhail.

As owner and team president of the Indians in 1947, Veeck signed Larry Doby and thus successfully integrated the American League.

As owner of the Leafs during numerous championship years, his name appears on the Stanley Cup eight times: 1932, 1942, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1962.

Smythe became the majority owner of Maple Leaf Gardens Ltd. in 1947, following a power struggle between directors who supported him as president and those who wanted him replaced with Frank J. Selke.

Gallery owner Karl Nierendorf represented her until his death in 1947.

Charles Francis Adams ( October 18, 1876 – October 2, 1947 ) was an American businessman and sports promoter who was the owner of the Boston Bruins, Boston Braves, Suffolk Downs, and The First National grocery store chain.

Benny Binion was also the owner of the 1946, 1947 and 1948 National Cutting Horse Association ( NCHA ) World Champion, " Nigger " ( referenced in the current era of political sensitivity as " Benny Binion's Gelding ").

It was started on Toronto's then-bohemian Queen Street West in May 1972 as a combined science-fiction and comic book store called Bakka, a name taken by founding owner Charles McKee ( born 1 December 1947 ) from a Fremen legend in Frank Herbert's novel Dune ; Bakka was " the weeper who mourns for all mankind.

In 1947, Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and Yankees GM Larry MacPhail were rumored to have verbally agreed to trade DiMaggio for Williams, but MacPhail refused to include Yogi Berra and the deal fell through.

* Robert Wood Johnson IV ( born 1947 ), the current owner of the New York Jets

He would later become the owner and editor of the journal Purvachal between 1947 and 1948.