1947

1947
The first episode of New To You broadcast. The government nationalised the coal industry in the UK and Cable & Wireless Ltd. Britain and the United States merged their German occupation zones to form Bizonia. Sydney, was hit with the most severe storm since recorded observations began in 1792.

The first stand-alone episode of Much-Binding-In-The-Marsh broadcast on The Light Programme. The Mighty McGurk - starring Wallace Beery and Dean Stockwell - premiered.
Terry Molloy born in North Shields.
An adaptation of Rope - starring Dirk Bogarde, David Markham and Nigel Stock - broadcast.
Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny born in Merton Park. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery arrived in Moscow for a five-day visit to the Soviet Union. Montgomery told Soviet radio that the purpose of his visit was to 'establish friendly contact with the Soviet Army and I hope that from that friendly contact there may develop and grow a mutual understanding.' John Baxter's The Grand Escapade - starring The Artemus Boys, James Harcourt, Patric Curwen and Peter Bull and Thornton Freeland and Peter Creswell's Meet Me At Dawn - starring William Eythe, Stanley Holloway, Hazel Court, Margaret Rutherford and Basil Sydney - premiered.
The third Ashes test at Melbourne ended in a draw. There were centuries for Australia for Colin McCool, Arthur Morris and Ray Lindwall (and ninety two for Don Tallon). Cyril Washbrook scored a hundred in England's second innings as England avoided their third successive defeat scoring three hundred and ten or seven. Brian Desmond Hurst's Hungry Hill - starring Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price, Dermot Walsh and Jean Simmons - premiered.
David Robert Jones born in Brixton. British steel works closed down due to a lack of coal.
A BOAC Douglas C-47 crash killed eight people at Stowting, Kent. In the FA Cup Third Round, there were big wins for Burnley (five-one over Aston Villa), Liverpool (five-two at Walsall), Newcastle United (six-two against Crystal Palace), Luton Town (six-nil over Notts County) and Coventry City (five-two against Newport County). Anna Calder-Marshall born in Kensington.
With the London transportation strike almost a week old, the government called on the military to drive trucks supplying the city with food. The Sunday Pictorial published the results of a poll of readers views on the rumoured romance between Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip of Greece. Fifty five percent of those who expressed a preference were in favour. Forty per cent were dead against the idea of the Princes marrying 'a foreigner.'
Sinbad The Sailor - starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak and Anthony Quinn - premiered.
Over two thousand London dock workers voted to walk off the job in sympathy with the striking transport workers. California - starring Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Fitzgerald - premiered in New York.
The mutilated body of twenty two-year old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short - nicknamed The Black Dahlia - was discovered in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. The murder became a media sensation but would never be solved.
John Kenneth Foinquinos born in Rugby. Joanna Elizabeth Hacking born in Lancaster.
An international ice hockey match between England and the United States was broadcast live from Streatham Ice Rink. England won eight-seven after having to play in stripes shirts as their normal pale blue strip could not be clearly picked up by the cameras. First Division leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers lost four-one at Brentford. Second placed Preston North End could not take full advantage of Wolves' defeat, sharing a goalless draw with Charlton Athletic. Jackie Robinson scored four as Sunderland won five-nil at Blackpool.
AA Milne's The Princess & The Woodcutter and an adaptation of Rebecca broadcast.
James Smith born in Glasgow.
Beginning on 21 January, the UK experienced several cold spells which brought snow to many areas, blocking roads and railways. It was much harder to bring coal to the electric power stations and many had to shut down, forcing severe restrictions on power consumption, including restricting domestic electricity to nineteen hours per day and cutting industrial supplies completely. Radio and television broadcasts were limited, some magazines stopped publishing and newspapers were cut in size. These measures badly affected public morale and turned the Minister of Fuel & Power, Manny Shinwell, into a scapegoat; he received death threats and had to be placed under police guard. Towards the end of February there were fears of a food shortage as supplies were cut off and vegetables were frozen into the ground.
John Cromwell's Dead Reckoning - starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott - premiered. The International Olympic Committee announced that Germany and Japan would not be taking part in the 1948 Olympic Games. Former president Herbert Hoover accepted an assignment from President Truman to undertake a mission to Central Europe to study the food situation and 'other problems.'
Warren William Zevon born in Los Angeles. And his hair was perfect.
A Spencer Airways Douglas Dakota failed to get airborne from Croydon Airport and crashed into a parked and empty CSA Douglas C-47 destroying both aircraft and killing eleven passengers and one crew member. Eduardo Gonçalves de Andrade born in Belo Horizonte. Al Capone died, aged forty eight, in Florida.
A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Stockholm via Copenhagen crashed. It occurred shortly after the Douglas DC-3 took off from Kastrup Airport. All twenty two passengers and crew on board were killed including Prince Gustaf Adolf Oscar Fredrik Arthur Edmund, Duke of Västerbotten (at the time of his death, second in line to the Swedish throne), American opera singer Grace Moore and the Danish actress Gerda Neumann. The first episode of The Care Of Your Car broadcast.
Clement Attlee announced that British troops would be withdrawn from Egypt.
The Arthur Miller stage play All My Sons premiered at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway.
The Wandering Jew broadcast. Stephen Peter Marriott born in Manor Park, London. A ten-day blizzard began in the Canadian Prairies, one of Canada's worst winter storms of the Twentieth Century. Towns and trains from Winnipeg to Calgary were buried under snow while some rural roads and railways in Saskatchewan would remain closed until spring.
British High Commissioner for Palestine General Alan Cunningham ordered all 'non-essential' British civilians to evacuate the province. Carol Reed's Odd Man Out - starring James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan, William Hartnell and FJMcCormick - premiered.
A Douglas DC-3 crashed in the Sintra Mountains near Lisbon in poor weather conditions, killing fifteen of sixteen aboard. That same day another DC-3 crashed in Northern Iceland killing all twenty five aboard. After the recent crashed in Croydon and Denmark many concerned voices were raised about the safety of flying and that if God had meant men to fly he would have given them wings. Anthony Asquith's While The Sun Shines - starring Barbara White, Ronald Howard, Ronald Squire, Brenda Bruce and Bonar Colleano - premiered.
A second adaptation of 1066 & All That broadcast. Farrah Leni Fawcett born in Corpus Chrisiti, Texas. The Home Service's monthly magazine programme The Naturalist featured an appearance by the nature writer and broadcaster Maxwell Knight. Or, to put it another way, an appearance by the legendary MI5 spymaster and agent runner Maxwell Knight, the head of M Section, a possible inspiration for Ian Fleming's character M, virulant anti-Communist, former member of the British Fascisti, close personal friend of William Joyce and the man responsbile for the breaking of the Woolwich Arsenal Spy Ring, the penetration by MI5 of The Right Club and the prosecution of the spies Tyler Kent and Anna Wolkoff.
David Russell Gordon Davies born in Fortis Green, North London.

The Happiest Days Of Your Life broadcast. Franz von Papen was arrested in the middle of his denazification trial in Nuremberg and charged with falsifying Paul von Hindenburg's will.
Brook Williams' The Root Of All Evil - starring Phyllis Calvert, Michael Rennie, John McCallum and Hazel Court - premiered.
The Two Mrs Carrolls broadcast. The run-filled fourth Ashes test at Adelaide was drawn. Denis Compton and Arthur Morris both scored two centuries in the game (Len Hutton scored ninety four and seventy six and, for Australia, Keith Miller a swashbuckling one hundred and forty one). Australia regained the Ashes they had lost in 1939. At the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal, Japanese general Hisao Tani was found guilty of facilitating the Nanking Massacre. The Education Secretary, Ellen Wilkinson, MP for Middlesbrough East and a much-loved champion of social justice, died aged fifty five after three days in a coma following a bout of pneumonia.
Brian Desmond Hurst's Hungry Hill - starring Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price, Cecil Parker, Dermot Walsh, Michael Denison and Jean Simmons - premiered.
Darts: Screen Versus Footballers - with commentary by George Harrison (no relation) - broadcast. Live coverage of the FA Cup Fifth Round tie between Charlton Athletic and Blackburn Rovers broadcast. Tommy Dawson scored the only goal for the hosts in the final minute.
Cry Havoc broadcast.
A series of drastic measures went into effect in Britain aimed at stretching the country's dwindling coal supplies. In the London, Midlands and North West regions, household electricity was shut off for five hours each day, while electricity to industries was cut completely. All forms of commercial lighting such as illuminated advertising was banned. The BBC Television Service was temporarily suspended for the first time since World War II. It remained off-air until 11 March. On radio, The Third Programme was also closed down until 26 February whilst The Home Service and The Light Programme signed off at 11pm each night. The Paris Peace Treaties were signed, formally ending World War II between the Allies and Germany's Axis partners. War reparations, commitment to minority rights and territorial adjustments were among the matters settled. Michael Frank Keating born in Edmonton, Middlesex. Maclean Rogers' Woman To Woman - starring Douglass Montgomery, Joyce Howard, Adele Dixon and Yvonne Arnaud = premiered.
Brian Capron born in Eye, Suffolk.
Lord Louis Mountbatten became Viceroy of India. Christian Dior presented his first fashion collection in Paris. It went down in fashion history as The New Look after a comment made by Harper's Bazaar editor-in-chief Carmel Snow.
Felicity Gibson born in Rugby.
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin announced that Britain had 'given up trying to solve the Palestine problem' and would put the issue before the United Nations. Paris was virtually shut down for four hours when police, public utility workers and other government employees participated in a token strike to protest the government's refusal to grant a general wage increase.
'(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons' by The Nat King Cole Trio made number one on the Billboard record chart. Chesterfield's one-all draw at Luton Town in the Second Division saw the league debut of Stan Milburn, the youngest of four brothers from a famous footballing family, the first of five hundred and eighty svene appearances for Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale in a career that lasted until 1965.
Many miners in Wales voluntarily gave up their traditional free Sunday and worked a full shift in an effort to ease the coal crisis. Middlesbrough beat Nottingham Forest six-two in an FA Cup Fifth Round replay.
The war crimes trial of Albert Kesselring began in Venice. King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and the two Princesses arrived in South Africa for an two-month tour, marking the first time that the reigning sovereign had ever visited the country. The World Figure Skating Championships, the first to be held since 1939, concluded in Stockholm. Hans Gerschwiler of Switzerland won the men's competition while Barbara Ann Scott of Canada won the ladies' title. Micheline Lannoy and Pierre Baugniet of Belgium won the pairs competition. Lynn Dalby born in Harrogate. Dallas Roland Adams born in Indianapolis. Jenny Lee-Wright born in London.
The Beginning Or The End - starring Brian Donlevy and Robert Walker - premiered.
Clement Attlee announced that the government would hand over power to one or more independent Indian governments by June 1948. Peter Leslie Osgood born in Windsor.
Edwin H Land, co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation, demonstrated a new type of camera that could develop a photograph in just one minute with the turn of a knob.Jenny Lee-Wright born in London.
Several hundred Germans were arrested in the British and American occupation zones on suspicion of having established an underground Nazi organisation. Deborah Jane Snelling born in Perivale.
Due to the national fuel crisis, the Radio Times was not published for the weeks commencing 24 February and 2 March. It was only the second occasion that the listings magazine had not been published since it began in 1923 (the 14 May 1926 issue was not published because of the National Strike). Charles Crichton's Hue & Cry - starring Alastair Sim, Harry Fowler, Joan Dowling and Jack Warner - premiered.
Lance Comfort's Temptation Harbour - starring Robert Newton, Simone Simon, William Hartnell and Marcel Dalio - premiered.
Stephanie Beacham born in Barnet.
The Sixth Round of the FA Cup saw wins for Newcastle United (two-nil at Sheffield United), Liverpool (four-one against Birmingham City) and Charlton Athletic (two-one at home to Preston North End). Middlesbrough and Burnley drew one-all (Burnley won the replay at Turf Moor).
Harold French's White Cradle Inn - starring Madeleine Carroll, Ian Hunter, Michael Rennie and Anne-Marie Blanc - premiered.
Australia won the fifth Ashes test by five wickets on take the series three-nil. Len Hutton's century had given England a narrow first innings lead but Colin McCool took five wickets as England were dismissed for one hundred and eighty and Australia reached their target of two hundred and fourteen. Doug Wright took nine wickets in the match. The Two Mrs Carrolls - starring Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Stanwyck - premiered.
Judith Margaret Loe born in Urmston, Lancashire.
Radio Times listings resumed. Elia Kazan's Boomerang - starring Dana Andrews - premiered. Nike Arrighi born in Nice.
A Big Four Conference began in Moscow with the foreign ministers of the UK, United States, France and the USSR deciding on terms for treaties with Germany and Austria. Warmer temperatures in Britain caused a quick thaw resulting in widespread flooding, particularly in the Thames valley. George King's The Shop At Sly Corner (aka Code Of Scotland Yard) - starring Oskar Homolka, Muriel Pavlow and Derek Farr - premiered.
Television broadcasts resumed after the temporary, fuel-related, suspension although it was initially restricted to evening hours only and would not resume full service until April. The first episode of A Word In Your Eye broadcast. The Council of States in the US zone of Germany approved a restitution law that would return identifiable property to all racial, religious and political victims of Nazi Germany. Maurice J Wilson's The Turners of Prospect Road - starring Wilfrid Lawson, Helena Pickard, Maureen Glynne and Jeanne de Casalis - premiered.

The Jewish refugee ship Shabtai Luzinsky ran the British blockade of the Palestine coast and beached north of Gaza undetected. Alberto Cavalcanti's The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - starring Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Holloway, Derek Bond and Sally Ann Howes - premiered.
JB Priestley's Laburnam Grove broadcast. The government announced a ban on midweek sports events in an effort to boost worker productivity.
The third episode of Twenty Questions broadcast on The Home Service. Radio Times was not published during the week that the series began - on 28 February. The stage musical Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
Ben Travers' A Cup Of Kindness broadcast (originally scheduled for 20 February). Ryland Peter Cooder born in Los Angeles. Tony Osoba born in Glasgow. Smash-Up! The Story Of A Woman - starring Susan Hayward - premiered. Due to an injury crisis, New Brighton FC were forced to played their fifty one year old manager, Neil McBain, in goal for the Third Division (North) game against Hartlepoools United. It was almost exactly thirty two years to the day that McBain had made his professional debut for Ayr United. He remains the oldest player ever to appear in a Football League game. Hartlepools won three-nil.
An adaptation of Fanny's First Play broadcast.
The US Supreme Court upheld the right of the Civil Service Commission to fire Communists and Communist sympathisers from the government. Or, anyone they didn't like the look of.
David Lloyd born in Accrington. Italy and Yugoslavia restored diplomatic relations. Ireland passed the Customs-Free Airport Act, making Shannon Airport the first duty free port in the world. Nicholas Le Prevost born in Wiltshire.
My Favourite Brunette - starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour - premiered. Glenn Close born in Greenwich, Connecticut.
An adaptation of The Cherry Orchard broadcast (originally scheduled for 16 February).
At the Dachau trials, General Jürgen Stroop and twelve others were sentenced to death for murdering prisoners of war. US Congress passed the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, setting a term limit for election and overall time of service to the office of President. The Egg & I - starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray - premiered in Los Angeles.
President Truman signed an Executive Order requiring all federal employees to swear allegiance to the United States.
The Man Who Came To Dinner broadcast. The Zionist paramilitary organisation Irgun urged Jews around the world to boycott British goods 'as part of our fight against imperialism.'
The House Un-American Activities Committee began hearings in Washington on a bill to outlaw the Communist Party.
Reginald Kenneth Dwight born in Pinner. A rain-ruined test match between New Zealand and England at Christchurch ended in a draw. For New Zealand, Walter Hadlee scored one hundred and sixteen England's top scorer was Wally Hammond with seventy nine. Two entire days were lost to the weather.
J Edgar Hoover told the House Un-American Activities Committee that Communists had infiltrated the American film industry and were getting their 'message' out to theatre audiences.
MPAA President Eric Johnston testified for an hour before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He denied repeatedly that American movies were being used by Communists to spread propaganda and rejected as impossible a suggestion that all actors and writers suspected of Communist sympathies be fired from the industry.
The Grand National was won by Caughoo, a one hundred-to-one outsider. Cambridge won the Ninety Third Boat Race. Oxford came second. Charlton Athletic reached the FA Cup Final for the second year running, beating Newcastle United four-nil at Elland Road. The other Semi-Final, between Burnley and Liverpool, was drawn with Burnley winning the replay by a single goal.
In Bombay, new violence between Hindus and Muslims broke out over the partition of India.
Francisco Franco announced in a broadcast from Madrid that he had presented a bill to the Spanish Cortes providing for a new monarch to succeed him in the event of his death or incapacitation. The Bishop of London blamed Britain's high divorce rate on 'the influence of American movies.' In an article for the British medical magazine The Practitioner, Doctor JC Wand wrote that Hollywood teaches that love is an 'overwhelming impulse without rhyme or reason, which must at all costs be obeyed even if it implies stealing someone else's husband or someone else's fiancé.'
Frank McDonald's Twilight On The Rio Grande - starring Gene Autry, Sterling Holloway and Adele Mara - premiered.
Bernard Knowles' The Man Within - starring Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood and Richard Attenborough - premiered.
The private medical company Bupa was founded.
George More O'Ferrall's adaptation of Everyman starring Andre Morell - broadcast. James Anthony Hazeldine born in Salford.
Five US Marines participating in Operation Beleaguer were killed and sixteen others wounded in battle with a 'dissident' Chinese force that attempted to raid the Marine munitions dump near Tangku.
The first Tony Awards ceremony was held in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. The categories of the awards were rather loosely defined and there was not yet an overall award for Best Play, but recipients included José Ferrer, Fredric March, Ingrid Bergman and Helen Hayes for acting, Elia Kazan for directing and Arthur Miller for writing.
The Ba'ath Party was founded in Syria. Henry Ford, American industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company and horrific anti-Semtie, died aged eighty three.
Frank Sinatra floored newspaper columnist Lee Mortimer with a punch in the foyer of the Hollywood nightclub Ciro's. Sinatra claimed that Mortimer had insulted him with a racial slur, but the columnist claimed he didn't even know Sinatra was in the nightclub until he was attacked from behind and held down by two of Sinatra's 'companions' while the singer struck him 'two or three more times' and threatened to kill him if he saw him again. Mortimer was known to criticise Sinatra in his newspaper column for his political views and allege that he couldn't sing. Sinatra was arrested for assault, but the charge would be dismissed after he reportedly agreed to pay Mortimer nine thousand dollars.
Herbert Wilcox's The Courtneys Of Curzon Street - starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Gladys Young, Daphne Slater and Jack Watling - premiered.
Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux premiered. The Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, refused to agree to the Saar Protectorate becoming part of France, at a meeting in Moscow. It would be another ten years before the disputed territory became a state in West Germany.
Farewell To The Pegasus broadcast (originally scheduled for 22 February). England and Scotland drew one-all in the Home International Championship at Wembley. Preston's Andy McLaren opened the scoring for the visitors before Raich Carter equalised. Wolves' Jimmy Mullen made his international debut. Scotland's side included Newcastle United's Tommy Pearson who had previously played for England against Scotland in the December 1939 war-time international. The Prime Minister presented George Hardwick with the Jubilee Trophy following the game.
The Kingdom Of God broadcast.

The TV adaptation of Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon's And Talking Of Tightropes broadcast (originally scheduled for 9 March).
On Budget Day, Chancellor Hugh Dalton announced that the deficit in 1946-47 had only been five hundred and sixty nine million knicker, which was one hundred and fifty million quid lower than expected. Dalton projected a two hundred and forty eight million smackers surplus for 1947-48. Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers broke the fifty-year colour barrier in major league baseball.
Gerald Rafferty born in Paisley.
In the largest non-nuclear explosion in history, the Royal Navy set off nearly seven thousand tons of surplus ammunition in an attempt to destroy Heligoland. Typically, it didn't work. James Howard Woods born in Vernal, Utah.
The Flick Trial began in Nuremberg. Friedrich Flick and five other leading Nazi industrialists were put on trial for using slave labour, among other crimes.
A second production of Peggy Barwell's Prison Without Bars broadcast. David Leland born in Cambridge.
Princess Elizabeth gave a radio address on her twenty-first birthday from Cape Town. James Newell Osterberg, Jr born in Muskegon, Michigan.
A photo finish camera was used at Epsom Racecourse for the first time.
Four British policemen were killed and six others wounded in an explosion at the police barracks in Sarona, Palestine. The bombs were thought to have been planted by the Stern Gang.
Hendrik Johannes Cruijff born in Amsterdam.
Charlton Athletic beat Burnley one-nil in the FA Cup Final at Wembley, the first to be televised since 1939. As with most cup finals until 1952, only the second-half of the match (and, in this case, extra time) was broadcast. Chris Duffy scored the winner. History repeated itself as the ball, again, burst during the game (as it had during the 1946 Final). Subsequently, the reason for these problems was put down to the poor quality of leather available after World War II. Lois Ann Baxter born in Birdgwater.
The Devil Comes to Alcatraz and Variety On View broadcast.
The Kon-Tiki expedition departed from Callao, Peru. Thor Heyerdahl led a six-man crew aboard a wooden raft trying to sail to the Polynesian islands in an attempt to prove his theory that South Americans in pre-Columbian times could have settled Polynesia.
Cheryl Kennedy born in Enfield.
Leslie Michael Grantham born in Camberwell.
Campbell Dion and Dermot Morrah's Caesar's Friend broadcast. Evelyn McHale, a twenty three year old bookkeeper, committed suicide by jumping off the Empire State Building, landing on top of a parked car.
Miracle On Thirty Fourth Street - starring Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood and John Payne and Frederick De Cordova's Love & Learn - starring Jack Carson, Robert Hutton and Martha Vickers - premiered. Dorothea Binz, the SS supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp was executed by hanging at Hamelin prison.
England beat France three-nil in a friendly at Highbury with goals from Tom Finney, Wilf Mannion and Raich Carter. Eddie Lowe of Aston Villa made his international debut. John Hamill born in Shepherd's Bush.
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Black Narcissus - starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons and Kathleen Byron - premiered.Aan audacious prison break managed to free two hundred and forty one men from Acre Prison in the British Mandate of Palestine. Twenty seven of them were members of Zionist paramilitary organisations captured by the British Army, who had hanged three members of the Irgun group, less than three weeks earlier. Bradford Northern beat Leeds, eight-four, in the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final at Wembley. The two local rivals from the West Riding attracted a world-record attendance of over seventy seven thousand.
Annette Mills's Rotten Row broadcast.
The House Un-American Activities Committee chaired by J Parnell Thomas convened in Hollywood to investigate allegations of communism in the film industry.
Anthony Higgins born in Northampton.
Amos Milburn's 'Down The Road Apiece' released. Twelve German generals, including Wilhelm List and Maximilian von Weichs, were indicted at Nuremberg on charges of war crimes.
The first episode of The Toy Town Adventures Of Larry The Lamb - The Cruise Of The Toy Town Belle - and Kenneth Horne's Yes & No broadcast.

The final episode of March Of The Movies broadcast on The Home Service.
A United Europe meeting was held at the Royal Albert Hall. Winston Churchill spoke in favour of a European Union and urged Britain and France to take the lead in restoring Germany's economy.
The Strange Case Of Blondie White broadcast.
The opening day of the MCC's match with South Africa at Lord's was broadcast. The MCC won by one hundred and fifty eight runs. Eve Lucinda Fleming born in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire.
England's football team lost for the first time since the end of the war, one-nil to Switzerland at the Grasshopperstadion in Zürich. This was the first occasion that England have played on a Sunday. Servette's Jacky Fatton scored the winner.
Michael Cochrane born in Brighton.
A Barr-Smith's The Hangman Waits - starring Beatrice Campbell, John Turnbull, Anthony Baird and David Mowbray - premiered.
In Greenville, South Carolina, a case that drew national attention came to an end when twenty eight men charged with murder and conspiracy in the February killing of an African-American, Willie Earle, were acquitted by an all-white jury. None of whom were disgraceful racist scumbags, obviously. Pandemonium broke out on the floor of the courtroom, but once order was restored Judge J Robert Martin expressed displeasure with the verdict by leaving without the customary courtesy of thanking the jury for their service.
The USA's first guided ballistic missile, The Corporal, was launched. Gordon Frank Newman born in Kent.
The cabinet agreed to Viceroy Mountbatten's plan to partition India into two states, one Muslim and one Hindu.
Empire Links broadcast.
The Farmer's Daughter - staring Loretta Young and Joseph Cotton - premiered. England ended their three-game European tour with a ten-nil victory over Portugal in a friendly international in Lisbon. Both Tommy Lawton and Blackpool's Stan Mortensen - making his international debut - scored four goals each with Stanley Matthews and Tom Finney also on target. The England team received The Centenary Cup from the Portuguese President António Óscar Fragoso Carmona.
Twenty two Germans convicted of atrocities at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp were hanged at Landsberg Prison.
Arthur Crabtree's Dear Murderer - starring Eric Portman, Greta Gynt, Dennis Price, Maxwell Reed, Jack Warner, Hazel Court and Jane Hylton - premiered.
Agatha Christie's Three Blind Mice broadcast on The Light Programme. Ronald Neame's Take My Life - starring Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt and Marius Goring - premiered.
Liverpool went top of the First Division after a two-one away win over Wolverhampton Wanderers with goals from John Balmer and Albert Stubbins. Wolves - for whom Dennis Wescott scored thirty eight times during the season - could have clinched their first league title with a victory. Instead the title went to Liverpool for the fifth time. Due to the bitter winter which saw many fixtures postponed, Liverpool had to wait until the match between Stoke City and Sheffield United on 14 June to be confirmed as champions. A win for Stoke would have seen them take the title on goal average; however, Sheffield United won two-one. Manchester United - playing all of their 'home' games at Maine Road due to bomb damage inflicted on Old Trafford by the Luftwaffe - finished second. Brentford and Leeds United were relegated (the latter achieved just six wins all season), replaced in the top flight by Manchester City and Burnley. Birmingham, Chesterfield and Newcastle United (for whom Charlie Wayman was the division's top scorer with thirty goals) narrowly missed out on promotion. Clarrie Jordan scored forty two goals for Third Division North champions Doncaster Rovers. Diane Langton born in Somerset.
Joel O'Brien's adaptation of Power Without Glory - starring Kenneth More and Dirk Bogarde - broadcast. Ronald David Wood born in Hillingdon, Middlesex. John Price born in Carmel, Flintshire.
Smoke from a fire at a rubber dump in Mitcham blotted out the sun in the area for several hours. Lew Landers' Thunder Mountain - starring Tim Holt, Martha Hyer and Virginia Owen and John Harlow's Green Fingers - starring Robert Beatty, Carol Raye and Nova Pilbeam - premiered.
Alfred Travers' Dual Alibi - starring Herbert Lom, Phyllis Dixey, Terence De Marney and Ronald Frankau - premiered.

Scotland Yard disclosed that several prominent Britons had received letter bombs sent through the mail from Italy. None of the bombs had exploded, because the recipients all became suspicious of the bulky packets. The police declined to reveal the names of those who had received the letters, but Edward Spears came forward to say that he was one of them and that the culprit was probably a Jewish underground organisation.
Harley Grenville-Barker's Rococo broadcast. Secretary of State George Marshall suggested in a speech at Harvard University that the United States would help Europe solve its economic problems provided the European countries themselves adopted a joint economic recovery programme. This idea would become the basis of The Marshall Plan. David Hare born in Hastings.
Postal workers intercepted nine more letter bombs reportedly addressed to Prime Minister Attlee, Winston Churchill and other prominent politicians.
In Chesterfield's four-two victory over Sheffield Wednesday in the Second Division, George Milburn, playing his final game of a career that began in 1930, completed the unusual feat of scorring a hat-trick of penalties.
The Woman On The Beach - directed by Jean Renoir and starring Joan Bennett - premiered.
Emlyn Williams' adaptation of A Month In The Country broadcast. Eva Perón was given a twenty one-gun salute on her arrival in Madrid during a state visit. Julie Driscoll Tippetts born in London.
Charles Frend's The Loves Of Joanna Godden - starring Googie Withers, Jean Kent, John McCallum and Derek Bond - premiered.
William Russell's Dear Ruth - starring Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman and Edward Arnold - premiered.
The opening test of a five match series between England and South Africa at Trent Bridge ended in a draw. Alan Melville scored a century in each innings or South Africa. England were dismissed cheaply and had to follow on but Denis Compton hit one hundred and sixty three. Eric Hollies took five wickets in South Africa's first innings. Tom Dollery, Sam Cook and Jack Martin made their test debuts. The first Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod opened in Wales.
Richard Thorpe's Fiesta - starring Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban - premiered.
Lawrence Huntington's The Upturned Glass - starring James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Kellino and Ann Stephens - premiered.
Beatrice Mayor's The Pleasure Garden broadcast.
Oswald Mitchell's The Mysterious Mister Nicholson - starring Anthony Hulme and Lesley Osmond - premiered.
Linda Robinson born in Toronto.
A Lockheed L-049 Constellation crashed into the Syrian desert due to engine failure while flying from Karachi to Istanbul. Fourteen of the thirty six aboard were killed. One of the survivors was Third Officer Gene Roddenberry, who helped rescue passengers from the wreckage. Ahmed Salman Rushdie born in Bombay. Basil Dearden's Frieda - starring David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Flora Robson, Albert Lieven and Mai Zetterling - premiered.
The Eros statue, having been removed from Piccadilly Circus for safekeeping during the war, was returned to its plinth. Bigsy Siegel was murdered in Los Angeles, aged forty one. Paula Jane Milne born in Amersham.
The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus broadcast.
Aviator The Bad Man broadcast. Kenneth Arnold claimed to have seen nine unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier, Washington. Arnold's description of the objects also led to the press quickly coining the terms 'flying saucer' and 'flying disc' as popular descriptive terms for UFOs. Brendan Price born in Coventry. Alberto Cavalcanti's They Made Me A Fugitive - starring Trevor Howard and Sally Gray - premiered.
England won the second test at Lord's by ten wickets. Denis Compton (two hundred and eight) and Bill Edrich (one hundred and eighty nine) shared a partnership of three hundred and seventy in England's huge first innings. Doug Wright then took ten wickets in the match as South Africa were dismissed twice leaving England a target of twenty six. George Pope made his test debut. The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank was first published in the Netherlands. Jimmy Doyle, the, American welterweight boxer died in hospital a few hours after being KO'd by Sugar Ray Robinson in a bout in Cleveland, Ohio. He was twenty two. ohn Paddy Carstairs's Dancing With Crime - starring Richard Attenborough, Barry K Barnes and Sheila Sim - premiered.
Joseph Mankiewicz's The Ghost & Mrs Muir - starring Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison and George Sanders - premiered.
Stephen John Whittaker born in London.
When Joan Mary Dowd, nineteen-year-old cashier, of Forest Hill, was bound over at Bow Street for stealing forty one clothing coupons, two pounds of sugar and a quarter of a pound of tea from her former landlord, the probation officer, Miss Woodward, claimed the girl had left home because her father beat her for keeping late hours. The girl's mother denied this and said that Joan's father was 'one of the best in the world.' They were both anxious to have her home. 'I think she is a little too old to be whipped,' said the magistrate, JF Eastwood.
A bill that would make Hawaii the forty ninth US state was adopted by the House of Representatives.
Oswald Mitchell's Black Memory - starring Michael Atkinson, Myra O'Connell, Michael Medwin and Sid James - premiered.
A conference in Paris between France, the UK and the USSR broke up after the Soviets rejected the Marshall Plan, which Britain and France had already accepted. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov warned that Europe would be split into eastern and western blocs if Britain and France acted alone; his UK counterpart Ernest Bevin declared that Britain had faced threats before and would not be deterred.
The Perils of Pauline - starring Betty Hutton - premiered.
Richard Arthur Beckinsale born in Carlton, Nottinghamshire.
David MacDonald's The Brothers - starring Patricia Roc, Will Fyffe, Maxwell Reed, Finlay Currie and John Laurie - premiered.
An unidentified flying object crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. Although it was initially reported to be a conventional weather balloon, conspiracy theories persist that the downed object was an extraterrestrial spacecraft. The most likely explanation is that it was a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. The Hostages Trial began in Nuremberg. Twelve German generals of the Balkan Campaign were put on trial as those responsible for the hostage-taking of civilians and the wanton shooting of those hostages, as well as executions of arbitrarily designated 'partisans.' Edward Dmytryk's So Well Remembered - starring John Mills, Martha Scott and Trevor Howard - premiered.
England won the third test at Old Trafford by seven wickets. Bill Edrich scored a century and took eight wickets as England chased a target on one hundred and thirty to win. Denis Compton also scored another hundred whilst, for South Africa, Dudley Nourse hit one hundred and ten. Ken Cranston and Cliff Gladwin made their test debuts. King George VI announced the engagement of his daughter, Princess Elizabeth, to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.

A woman magistrate who ordered birching for two boys - one a first offender - was criticised by fellow-magistrates in Manchester. Eleanor Kershaw, a vicar's daughter, presiding over Old Trafford Bench, told the boys, brothers aged ten and eleven, they would each get six strokes for stealing money and property worth three pounds. Because such a sentence had not been imposed for fifteen years and there was no rod in stock, the police made one by cutting twigs from trees. Alice Titt, senior woman magistrate for the Manchester County area, telephoned the clerk and some of her fellow magistrates on hearing of the decision. Titt told a reporter 'I do not want to see a return to a Dickensian England. We are going back to the barbarism which most of us hoped we had left behind. We have enough tough guys already. I believe birching today makes us the gangsters of tomorrow.' Defending the sentence, Kershaw told the Daily Mirror: 'Magistrates are tired - I'm not the only one - of putting people on probation. Things have got to such a pitch that unless a person is punished by some physical hurt it won't do any good.' Arlo Davy Guthrie born in Coney Island, New York.
The Age of Anxiety by WH Auden was published.
John Peter Wilkinson born in Canvey Island, Essex.
GK Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday broadcast. Cuban Labour Minister Carlos Prío Socarrás and Senator Eduardo Chibás fought a sabre duel in Havana. Chibás had been challenged to the duel by Socarrás after he harshly criticised the minister in a radio broadcast. Chibás sustained cuts to his face, left side and right arm while Socarrás was bruised in the right side. Honour was satisfied.
British authorities in Palestine imposed martial law on Netanya, where the two British soldiers were kidnapped two days earlier.
The Indian Independence Act 1947 received Royal Assent. The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was created by the United Nations and entrusted to the United States. President Truman signed a new Presidential Succession Act, changing the law of succession to the presidency. Lionel Tomlinson's Death In High Heels - starring Don Stannard, Elsa Tee and Veronica Rose - premiered.
Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire - starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan - premiered.
David Albert Cook born in Plaistow, Essex. John Dicks born in London.
The Bachelor & The Bobby-Soxer - starring Cary Grant Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple - premiered.
The first episode of Cafe Continental broadcast. Possessed - starring Joan Crawford - premiered.
Seaside Concert Parties Gay Parade and Reginald Beckwith's Boys In Brown broadcast.
Tom Blower completed the first swimming between Ireland and Scotland. Roy Ward Baker's The October Man - starring John Mills, Joan Greenwood and Kay Walsh and Ralph Smart's Bush Christmas - starring Chips Rafferty, John Fernside, Stan Tolhurst, Helen Grieve, Nick Yardley, Neza Saunders and Thelma Grigg - premiered. One of the first releases from Children's Entertainment Films, the latter was a huge box office success in both Britain and Australia. Helen Grieve subsequently decided to study science rather than pursue an acting career. Nick Yardley later became newsworthy when his nose was broken in a boomerang-throwing accident in 1950.
England won the fourth test at Headingley by ten wickets. Len Hutton scored a century in England's first innings whilst Ken Cranston ended South Africa's second innings with a spell of four wickets in six balls. Jack Young and Harold Butler made their test debuts, the latetr taking seven wickets in the match. A record crowd of over eighty two thousand packed into West Ham Stadium to watch a speedway test match between England and Australia.
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger born in Thal, Styria, Austria.
Richard Thomas Griffiths born in Thornaby-on-Tees.

An adaptation of Barre Lyndon's The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse broadcast.
The first episode of Play The Game broadcast. The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty - starring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo and Boris Karloff and John Baxter's When You Come Home - starring Frank Randle, Leslie Sarony, Leslie Holmes and Diana Decker - premiered.
Janet Stephanie Francis born in Wesminster. Ken Annakin's Holiday Camp - starring Flora Robson, Dennis Price, Jack Warner and Hazel Court - premiered.
Howard Hughes made his first appearance before a senatorial inquiry into wartime contracts and snitched that committee chairman Owen Brewster had offered to 'kill' the investigation if Hughes would agree to merge TWA with Pan-American Airlines, which Brewster had part interest in. Oliver Tobias Freitag born in Zurich. Anatole Litvak's The Long Night - starring Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price and Ann Dvorak - premiered.
Truant In Park Lane broadcast. After one hundred and one days and four thousand three hundred miles, the raft of the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Thor Heyerdahl smashed into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotus. Heyerdahl demonstrated that there were no technical reasons preventing South Americans of pre-Columbian times from settling Polynesia.
The House of Commons, on second reading, passed a bill to give the Labour government sweeping powers to deal with Britain's economic crisis. Opposition leader Winston Churchill accused the government of seeking a 'blank check for totalitarianism.' Which, for the man who was in charge of a government which operated strictwartime regulations was, frankly, a bit rich.
The Motion Picture Association of America suspended all shipments of films to the UK in reaction to the new customs duty.
General Lucius D Clay reported the release of the last eight million German prisoners of war and the complete destruction or conversion of all armaments plants in the US-occupied zone. Ian Scott Anderson born in Dunfermline.
Senator Homer Ferguson suddenly called a suspension of the inquiry into Howard Hughes' war contracts, reportedly due to the bad publicity it was generating. Hughes claimed that the move was a 'vindication' of his conduct.
Huge fires raged in Lahore following a full day of arson on the eve of the announcement of how the Punjab boundary commission would partition the province. Bernard Knowles' Jassy - starring Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, Dennis Price, Ernest Thesiger and Nora Swinburne - premiered.
The Buchenwald Trial ended. Twenty two of the thirty one convicted staff members of Buchenwald concentration camp received death sentences. Michael Curtiz's Life With Father - starring William Powell, Irene Dunne and Elizabeth Taylor - had its premiere in Skowhegan, Maine, the town where the original play had first been performed eight years earlier. Shortly before the stroke of midnight on the eve of India's independence, Jawaharlal Nehru delivered the ' Tryst with Destiny' speech. Madelaine Edith Prior born in Blackpool.
India became an independent country. Jawaharlal Nehru became the nation's first Prime Minister and participated in the official raising of the Indian flag in New Delhi's War Memorial Square in front of half a million people. Liaquat Ali Khan took office as the first Prime Minister of Pakistan. Britain's first atomic reactor started up at Harwell. Jenny Hanley born in Gerrards Cross.
The first episode of New Faces broadcast.
Middlesex beat Gloucestershire by sixty eight runs in the match which, ultimately, decided the county championship. Tom Goddard took fifteen wickets in the match for Gloucester.
John Argyle's The Hills of Donegal - starring Dinah Sheridan, James Etherington, Moore Marriott and John Bentley - premiered.
The fifth test at The Oval was drawn. Alan Melville scored a century in each innings for South Africa who only failed to chase down their fourth innings target of four hundred and fifty one by twenty eight runs. Denis Compton - who finished his golden summer with three thousand eight hundred first class runs and eighteen centuries - scored one hundred and thirteen and Norman Yardley ninety nine. Jack Robertson and Dick Howorth made their test debuts. The Doctors' trial ended in Nuremberg. Seven high-ranking medical officials of Nazi Germany, including Hitler's personal physician Karl Brandt, were sentenced to death for having been involved in human experimentation and other crimes against humanity. Peter John Denyer born in Dartford.
Prominent American liberals marked the twentieth anniversary of the Sacco-Vanzetti execution with a manifesto warning against 'all forms of tyranny.' Torquay United's two-nil victory over Aldershot in the Third Division South saw the club debut of Dennis Lewis - the first of four hundred and seventy four games for The Gulls in a career that lasted until 1959. In the process he broke Ron Shaw's appearance record for the club, established in 1957. David Robb born in London.
The first Edinburgh International Festival opened at Usher Hall.
Frank Lauder's Captain Boycott - starring Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Mervyn Johns, Alastair Sim and Cecil Parker and Richard Grey's Eyes That Kill - starring Robert Berkeley and Sandra Dorne - premiered.
The British government ordered 'siege economy' measures rationing food, motoring and foreign travel. Henry Hathaway's Kiss Of Death - starring Victor Mature - premiered.
Domini Miranda Blythe born in Upton, Cheshire. James Aubrey Tregidgo born in Klagenfurt, Austria. Alec Sabin born in Yorkshire. Edward Buzzell's Song Of The Thin Man - starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn and Dean Stockwell - premiered.
Derby County broke the British transfer record which had stood since 1938, paying Greenock Morton fifteen thousand five hundred notes to acquire Scottish international Billy Steel.
Edgar Wallace's The Green Pack broadcast.
Irving Reis's The Bachelor & The Bobby-Soxer - staring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee and Ray Collins - premiered.

Middlesex won the cricket county championship for the fourth time. The season is chiefly remembered for the batting performances of Denis Compton and Bill Edrich who established records that, with the subsequent reduction in the number of first-class matches, will probably never be broken. Their form was key to Middlesex winning the championship for the first time since 1921, though they were involved in a tight contest for the title with the eventual runners-up Gloucestershire, for whom Tom Goddard was the most outstanding bowler of the season. Compton and Edrich were assisted by the fact that it was the driest and sunniest English summer for a generation, ensuring plenty of good batting wickets. Despite austerity and rationing, the country was still in post-war euphoria and there was great enthusiasm for sporting events. As Wisden reported, 'crowds thronged the grounds [and] Lord's was often full for county games.' The season saw two tied matches, Essex versus Northamptonshire and Hampshire versus Lancashire. Aside from Compton and Edrich, the leading first class run-scorers included their Middlesex teammate Jack Robertson, Lancashire's Cyril Washbrook and Yorkshire's Len Hutton. In total, ninety one batsmen scored one thousand runs during the season. Of these, seventeen scored two thousand-plus. The leading first class wicket-takers were Goddard, Kent's Doug Wright, Essex's Peter Smith, Worcestershire's Dick Howorth and Jack Young of Middlesex. There were twelve hat-tricks during the season. Goddard achieved the feat twice - against Glamorgan at Swansea and Somerset at Bristol - and Wright once, against Sussex at Hastings, which meant that they equalled the world career hat-trick record of six, set by Charlie Parker. Goddard had the best bowling analysis of the season when he took nine for forty one against Nottinghamshire at Bristol. His colleague Sam Cook was second-best with nine for forty two against Yorkshire, also at Bristol. Three other bowlers - Smith, Len Muncer and Cliff Gladwin - took nine in an innings and there were twelve instances of eight wickets in an innings, including three by Goddard. The best match analysis was sixteen for two hundred and fifteen by Smith for Essex against Middlesex at Colchester. Arthur Wellard and Wright took fifteen wickets in a match once apiece. The Evening Standard ran an editorial titled It Is Not Too Late - Call Off the Games, expressing opposition to London hosting the 1948 Olympics. 'Sane opinion will marvel only at the colossal thickness of hide which permits its owners, at this time of crisis, to indulge in grandiose and luxurious schemes for an international weight-lifting and basketball jamboree,' the editorial argued, going on to say that 'a people which has had its housing programme and food imports cut and which is preparing for a winter battle of survival, may be forgiven for thinking that a full year of excessive preparations for the reception of an army of foreign athletes verges on the border of the excessive.' Miserable gits. Lloyd McGuire born in Birmingham.
A British military court in Hamburg sentenced fourteen former Gestapo officials to death for killing fifty Allied airmen who attempted to escape from a Silesian prison camp in 1944. Clarance Elder's The Silver Darlings - starring Clifford Evans and Helen Shingler - premiered.
Walter Lang's Mother Wore Tights - starring Betty Grable - premiered.
Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears broadcast. Delmer Daves's Dark Passage - starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Agnes Moorhead and Dpuglas Sirk's Personal Column (aka Lured) - starring George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn and Boris Karloff - premiered.
The US Navy successfully fired a V-2 rocket from the aircraft carrier Midway, marking the first time a missile had been launched from a ship at sea.
Charles McEvoy's The Likes Of 'Er broadcast. David McGillivray born in London.
The first software bug was recorded, in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer. The error was traced to a moth trapped in a relay, which was carefully removed and taped to the log book. Mario Zampa's The Phantom Shot - starring John Stuart, Olga Lindo, Louise Lord and Howard Marion-Crawford - premiered.
The Rose Without A Thorn broadcast. General Eisenhower seemingly ruled himself out of ever running for political office when he said during a visit to Columbia University that 'any man who has spent most of his life in the military should not occupy any position in partisan politics and I can only repeat what I have said many times before - I shall never seek any partisan political office.' However, he did not specifically say he would refuse a nomination if drafted, only adding he would have no part in anything 'artificial.' Ralph Arliss born in Watford.
Christopher Neame born in London.
NBC stations voted unanimously to ban radio broadcasts of crime and mystery shows before 9:30PM, to minimise the possibility they would be heard by children.
Nigel John Dermot Neill born in Omagh.
The Free Territory of Trieste came into existence as the Treaty of Peace with Italy came into general effect.
'Near You' by Francis Craig & His Orchestra made number one on the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores record chart.
Palestine Arab Higher Committee spokesman Husayn al-Khalidi declared that a separate Arab state in a partitioned Palestine would not be economically or politically viable, predicting that partition would result in 'border incidents everywhere' and could lead to a 'tragic crusade between Jewry and Islam.' Mohandas Gandhi wrote in his weekly paper Harijan that the Indian government should take action to 'banish the English language as a cultural usurper as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.' England beat Belgium five-two at the Stade du Heysel in a match to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Belgian Football Association. Tom Finney and Tommy Lawton each scored twice with Stan Mortensen adding a fifth. Lawton's first came after just twelve seconds. Derby County's Tim Ward made his international debut. Stephen Edwin King born in Portland, Maine. The Post Office issued details of how they would provide relief on tobacco duty for pensioners who were habitual smokers or snuff takers. Tokens would be accepted as part-payments by tobacconists. It was in response to an increase in the tax of forty three per cent. Almost one-and-a-half million pensioners received the tokens, rising to over two-and-a=half million when it was repealed, ten years later.
The UN General Assembly overrode Soviet objections to include the Greek question, Korean independence and the Italian peace treaty on its agenda. Roy Boulting's Fame Is The Spur - starring Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles and David Tomlinson - premiered.
The Foxes Of Harrow - starring Rex Harrison, Richard Haydn, Victor McLaglen, Vanessa Brown, Patricia Medina, Gene Lockhart and Maureen O'Hara - premiered.
Anthony Mann's Railroaded! - starring John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont and Jane Randolph - premiered.
Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones announced Britain's intention to abandon its mandate over Palestine and pull out of all its military and government personnel at an early date, whether or not the United Nations reached a settlement agreeable to both Arabs and Jews.
Marvin Lee Aday born in Dallas. Denis Stamper Lawson born in Crieff, Scotland.
Stafford Cripps was given the newly created position of Minister for Economic Affairs. Walter Forde's Master Of Bankdam - starring Anne Crawford, Dennis Price, Tom Walls, Stephen Murray, Linden Travers and David Tomlinson - premiered.
Mark Feld born in Stoke Newington. Róża Maria Leopoldyna Łubieńska born in St Neots, Huntingdonshire.

Rita Hayworth filed for divorce from Orson Welles. Lawrence Douglas Lamb born in Edmonton.
An adaptation of Dorothy L Sayers' Busman's Honeymoon broadcast.
Cecil B DeMille's Unconquered - starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard- premiered. leslie Arliss' A Man About The House - starring Dulcie Gray, Margaret Johnston, Kieron Moore and Guy Middleton - premiered.
The Danish Lower Chamber of Parliament ousted Prime Minister Knud Kristensen when it passed a vote of no confidence.
President Truman made the first-ever televised address from the White House, urging Americans to voluntarily observe meatless Tuesdays and poultryless Thursdays in order to make more food available for hungry Europeans. The Actors Studio was founded in New York. Brian Francis Johnson born in Gateshead.
Adelaide Hall's appearance on Variety In Sepia was - as far as anyone knows - the oldest kinescope telerecording still held by the BBC. Clement Attlee performed a cabinet reshuffle. New appointments included Christopher Addison as Lord Privy Seal, Kenneth Younger as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department and Arthur Henderson as Secretary of State for Air. John Harlow's While I Live - starring Sonia Dresdel, Tom Walls and Carol Raye - premiered.
Robert Montgomery's Ride A Pink Horse and Charles Frank's Uncle Silas - starring Jean Simmons, Derrick de Marney and Katina Paxinou - premiered.
The first supersonic flight of a piloted aeroplane took place when Chuck Yeager piloted a Bell X-1 at Mach 1.06.
Denis Johnston's The Moon In The Yellow River broadcast. The New York State Court of Appeals ruled that a false charge of a person being a Communist or a Communist sympathiser was basis for a libel action. Guy Domville Siner born in New York.
Britain granted independence to Burma effective in January 1948. Three months later, the British flag was lowered in Rangoon and the Union of Burma was formed.
England beat Wales three-nil at Ninian Park in the Home International Championship. Stan Mortensen, Tom Finney and Tommy Lawton were on target. Liverpool's Phil Taylor made his international debut. Arsenal's Wally Barnes was one of three players making their denbut for Wales.
The TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's Three Blind Mice broadcast.
The Pakistani tribal invasion of Jammu and Kashmir began.
Gary Cooper, Robert Montgomery and Ronald Reagan were among the parade of witnesses who testified before the House Un-American Activities Commission in Washington.
The first episode of The Handle Bar - featuring Jimmy Edwards, Richard Hearne and Humphrey Lectocq - broadcast.
Hillary Diane Rodham born in Chiacgo.
The USSR joined the International Association of Athletics Federations, leaving no obstacles to participation in the 1948 Olympic Games. The first episode of Up The Pole - starring Jimmy Jewel, Ben Warriss and Jon Pertwee - broadcast on The Light Programme.
David Dixon born in Derby. Jack Lee's The Woman In The Hall - starring Ursula Jeans, Jean Simmons, Cecil Parker, Edward Underdown, Joan Miller and Jill Richmond - premiered.
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss born in Brooklyn.
Max Bygraves TV début on an episode of New To You and an adaptation of Marlowe's Edward I - featuring the début of Patrick Troughton - broadcast. Vernon Sewell's The Ghosts Of Berkeley Square - starring Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer and Bernard knowles' The White Unicorn - starring Margaret Lockwood, Joan Greenwood, Ian Hunter and Dennis Price - premiered.
Alfred Sangster's The Brontes broadcast. The Hughes H-4 Hercules, also known as The Spruce Goose, had its one and only flight near Cabrillo Beach, California, when Howard Hughes and a crew flew it for twenty six seconds at a height of seventy feet. It is the largest flying boat ever built and has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in history.
John Ford's The Fugitive premiered. The Battle of Badgam was fought during the Indo-Pakistani War. One company of Fourth Battalion, Kumaon Regiment was decimated but halted the momentum of the Pakistani attackers and gained time for Indian forces to fly in and save the Kashmir Valley. Sentences were handed down in the Pohl trial. Four defendants, including Oswald Pohl, were sentenced to death by hanging for war crimes.
The US State Department published a booklet titled Aspects of Current American Foreign Policy. The pamphlet blamed Russia's uncompromising attitude for the failure to secure world peace and acknowledged the possibility of Germany remaining permanently divided if the great powers could not reach an agreement. George Patton's wartime memoirs, War As I Knew It, were posthumously published.
Green Dolphin Street - starring Lana Turner - premiered. England and Northern Ireland drew two-two in the Home International championship at Goodison Park. Late goals from Wilf Mannion and Tommy Lawton had given England the lead but after West Bromwich Albion's Davy Walsh had pulled a goal back for the visiotrs, a diving header in the last minute by Huddersfield Town's Peter Doherty levelled the scores. Doherty was carried from the field by jubilant Irish supporters in the sixty eight thousand crowd. Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone born in Davyhulme, Manchester.
Five people died in three train crashes in London two hours apart as a belt of thick fog enveloped the southern half of England and caused major disruption on the roads and railways.
Food Minister John Stratchey announced that starting 10 November, sales of potatoes would be limited to three pounds, per week per adult. Children under five would get one-and-a-half pounds and expectant mothers four-and-a-half pounds. The announcement was the result of a shortage caused by the worst drought in fifty years.
TS Eliot's Murder In The Cathedral broadcast. Also, the first known use of the telerecording on an outside broadcast: The Service Of Remembrance from The Cenotaph was televised live during the afternoon and a recording of the event (on film) was shown later that evening. The Daily Scum Mail immediately whinged about BBC repeats. Robert Rossen's Body & Soul - starring John Garfield and Lilli Palmer - premiered.
The American military government in Germany announced a comprehensive new law designed to return property worth an estimated thirteen billion marks to Jews and other victims of Nazi discrimination. The Court of Appeal of England and Wales decided Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd Versus Wednesbury Corp, setting conditions on which it would intervene to correct a bad administrative decision.
Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement - starring Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire - premiered in New York. Margery Allingham's Room To Let broadcast in The Light Programme's Mystery Playhouse strand.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton inadvertently revealed some of the contents of his Budget whilst on his way to the House of Commons to deliver his speech, effectively ending his political career. During a press conference, Charles de Gaulle called for an alliance of France, Britain and the United States to stem world Communism and promote the reconstruction of Europe. Asked if he believed whether a Third World War was in the making, he replied: 'It would be crazy not to look facts in the face and not to keep our eyes open to realities. A new war is a possibility. It is only a possibility, but we must face that possibility and prepare for it.'
Third Division (South) Notts County paid a British record transfer fee of twenty thousand pounds to Chelsea for England international Tommy Lawton. He made the surprise decision to drop down two divisions to be reunited with manager Arthur Stollery, his former masseur at Chelsea and because he was promised a job outside of football upon his retirement by vice-chairman Harold Walmsley. Alexander Korda's An Ideal Husband - starring Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding and Diana Wynyard - premiered.
The National Coal Board reached an agreement with unions to raise the pay of underground workers by fifteen shillings a week and surface workers by ten shillings. Jake LaMotta lost a boxing match to Billy Fox in four rounds. Suspecting the fight was fixed, the New York State Athletic Commission withheld the purses for the fight and suspended LaMotta.
The first episode of Viewers' Viewpoint and Funny Thing, This Wireless! - featuring the TV début of Clive Dunn - broadcast. Tommy Lawton scored on his debut for Notts County in a two-one win at Northampton Town in the Third Division (South).
German composer Wilhelm Furtwängler was attacked by fifty former concentration camp inmates as he was entering the Musikverein in Vienna to conduct a concert. Despite having been cleared by all four occupying powers as well as the Austrian government during the denazifaction process, Furtwängler was booed and manhandled by the angry mob until a Russian guard fired into the air.
James Warwick born in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.
King George VI awarded the Dukedom of Edinburgh to Philip Mountbatten and decreed that he would be known henceforth as His Royal Highness, restoring the royal rank Philip had surrendered when he took British citizenship. Dudley Nichols's Mourning Becomes Electra - starring Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave and Lawrence Huntington's When The Bough Breaks - starring Patricia Roc, Rosamund John and Bill Owen - premiered. England beat Sweden four-two in a friendly international at Highbury. Stan Mortensen scored a hat-trick and Tommy Lawton added a penalty with Gunner Nordahl and Gunner Gren replying for the Swedes. Newspapers ran a story before the match that the Swedes were 'on a course of pep-pills.' Their coach, George Raynor, later confided that they were merely sugar-pills, but that they had a great psychological effect on his players. Most of the Swedes were amateurs and the following summer they would win the Olympic gold medal in London. Teams were presented to the Crown Prince of Sweden, Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf.
Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey. The service was watched by an estimated four hundred thousand viewers and is the oldest surviving full telerecorded programme. The worldwide radio audience was an estimated two hundred million. The groom was awarded the title of Duke of Edinburgh just prior to the serviceAdrienne Burgess born in Brisbane.
Nickolas Andrew Halliwell Grace born in West Kirby, Cheshire.
Anthony Kimmins' Mine Own Executioner - starring Burgess Meredith, Kieron Moore, Dulcie Gray, Michael Shepley and Christine Norden - premiered.
The House Un-American Activities Committee declared a list of 'unfriendly witnesses' - including Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner and Dalton Trumbo - who had refused to answer questions about alleged Communist influence within the film industry. These witnesses would become known as The Hollywood Ten. The United States Supreme Court decided Cox Versus United States, finding that courts have only limited scope of review over a Selective Service Board's classification of a Jehovah's Witness as a conscientious objector rather than a minister.
Paul Robeson's version of 'No More Auction Block' recorded. Robert Hamer's It Always Rains On Sunday - starring Googie Withers, Edward Chapman, Susan Shaw, Patricia Plunkett and Jack Warner - premiered.
Telescope broadcast.
Another Big Four Conference began in London to discuss the future of Germany and Austria. The conference ran into early difficulties when Molotov assailed the western democracies as imperialist warmongers while Marshall replied that Molotov did not believe his own accusations.
The last indictments in the Nuremberg Trials were filed. Thirteen generals and one admiral were charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The French army massacred three hundred Vietnamese civilians in Mỹ Trạch village.
World Zionist Organization President David Ben-Gurion called the establishment of a sovereign Jewish nation state in the ancient Jewish homeland an act of historical justice.
Aleister Crowley died in Hastings, aged seventy two. Derek Twist's The End Of The River - starring Sabu, Bibi Ferreira, Esmond Knight, Robert Douglas and Orlando Martins - premiered.
The Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire - starring Jessica Tandy and rising star Marlon Brando - premiered at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway. Montgomery Tully's Mrs Fitzherbert - starring Peter Graves, Joyce Howard, Leslie Banks and Margaretta Scott - premiered.
A federal grand jury in Washington indicted The Hollywood Ten for contempt of Congress for refusing to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee whether or not they were Communists.
The University of Cambridge voted to accept women for the first time.
The first episode of Peter Bax's two-part adaptation of Hamlet - featuring Patrick Troughton and Patrick Macnee - broadcast. Wendy Padbury born in Stratford Upon Avon.
The Krupp Trial began in Nuremberg. Twelve former directors of the Krupp Group were accused of having actively participated in the Nazis' plans for a war of aggression as well as for having used slave labour.
The Bishop's Wife - starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven - premiered in New York.
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium opened in Madrid.
John Baxter's Fortune Lane - starring Douglas Barr, Billy Thatcher and Brian Weske - premiered.
Val Guest's Just William's Luck - starring William Graham, Garry Marsh and Jane Welsh - premiered.
Mincemeat: Or, How To Plan An Evening's Television broadcast.
Michael Barry's first television adaptation of Toad Of Toad Hall - starring Roald Lang, Kenneth More, Andrew Osborn and Jack Newman - broadcast.

Two Bands In Contrast broadcast.
Van Gogh's Yellow House - presented by Douglas Cooper - broadcast.
Leslie Henson's Christmas Eve Party broadcast. Orson Welles's The Lady From Shanghai premiered in Paris.
The farce Tons Of Money broadcast. Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon - starring Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews - and George Cukor's A Double Life premiered.
Bertram Mills's Circus broadcast from Olympia.
Petula Clark Entertains broadcast.
The Song Of The Thin Man - starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and Dean Stockwell - premiered.
Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case - starring Gregory Peck and Ann Todd - premiered. Colin Trevor Flooks born in Cirencester.
Jeffrey Lynne born in Shard End, Birmingham.
First the first time the BBC broadcast live from The Chelsea Arts Ball to ring-in the New Year. Timothy Lewis Matthieson born in Glendale. Brian Desmond Hurst's The Mark Of Cain - starring Eric Portman, Sally Gray, Patrick Holt and Dermot Walsh - premiered.