1947-UFO's in Washington State!!!!

1947

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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.

January

• January 1: The Canadian Citizenship Act comes into effect.
• January 3 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
• January 25 – A Philippine plane crashes in Hong Kong, with $5 million worth of gold and money.

February

• 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 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 20
• 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 25 – John C. Hennessy, Jr., brings the first VW Beetle to the United States.

April

• April 1: Jackie Robinson, the first African American in modern Major League Baseball, signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
• April 15 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play modern Major League Baseball.
• April 26 – Academy-Award winning Tom and Jerry cartoon, The Cat Concerto, is released to theatres.

May

• May 2 – The movie Miracle on 34th Street, a Christmastime classic, is first shown in theaters.
• 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.

June

• June 10 – SAAB produces its first automobile.
• 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.
• June 24 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely-reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.

July

• 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 11 – The Exodus leaves France for Palestine, with 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survivor refugees on board.
• 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.
• 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 then remains in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.

August

• August 27 – When the French government lowers the daily bread ration to 200 grams, that causes riots in Verdun and in Le Mans.

 September

• 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.
• September 18 – War Department becomes the Department of the Army, a branch of the new Department of Defense.

 October

• 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

 November

• November 2- In California, the designer and airplane pilot Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose, the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built. (The flight lasts only eight minutes, and the "Spruce Goose" is never flown again.)
• 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 27 – In Paris, France, police occupy the editorial offices of the communist newspapers.

 December

• 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]

 Date unknown

• The Doomsday Clock is set.
• Cambridge University begins to admit women as full students.
• Raytheon produces the first commercial microwave oven.
• 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.^[4]
• By discovery of Promethium in products of nuclear fission, the last gap of the periodic table is closed.