Timeline June 1947

Events in June 1947 9

• 1906 – 1947 Bugsy Siegel (1906-1947) Died 20 June 1947, aged 41 Bugsy Siegel was an American mobster who played a central part in developing the Las Vegas Strip. He opened the Flamingo Hotel in 1946. He was shot dead at his girlfriend's home in Beverly Hills.
• 1947 Doomsday Clock introduced Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists debuts its symbolic clock The Doomsday Clock first appeared on the cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in June 1947. Artist Martyl Langsdorf designed it and set it at seven minutes to midnight. The clock became a well-known symbol of the danger of nuclear war.
• 1947 French Open 1947 Men: József Asbóth · Women: Patricia Todd
• 1947 Marshall Plan proposed George Marshall outlines American aid for European recovery On 5 June 1947, US Secretary of State George C. Marshall called for a programme of American economic assistance to rebuild Europe in a speech at Harvard University. The European Recovery Program that followed channelled over 13 billion dollars into Western Europe. The Soviet Union and its satellites refused to take part.
• 1947 Camus publishes The Plague La Peste appears in Paris Albert Camus's novel La Peste was published by Gallimard in June 1947. It describes an epidemic in the Algerian city of Oran and is widely read as an allegory of the German occupation. The book was an immediate success and helped earn Camus the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1947 – 2020 Jerry Rawlings (1947-2020) Died 12 November 2020, aged 73 Jerry Rawlings led Ghana as head of state following two coups and later as elected president from 1993 to 2001, shaping the country's transition to multiparty democracy. He died on 12 November 2020 after a short illness.
• 1947 Taft-Hartley Act passed Congress overrides Truman's veto to restrict union power The Labor Management Relations Act became law on 23 June 1947 after Congress overrode President Truman's veto. It banned closed shops and allowed states to pass right-to-work laws. It also restricted some union practices such as secondary boycotts.
• 1947 Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting Pilot's report gives rise to the term flying saucer On 24 June 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine fast-moving objects near Mount Rainier in Washington. Newspaper coverage of his description introduced the phrase flying saucer. The report started the first wave of UFO sightings in the United States.
• 1947 Diary of Anne Frank published Het Achterhuis appears in Amsterdam Anne Frank's diary was published in Dutch as Het Achterhuis on 25 June 1947. Her father Otto Frank, the only member of the family to survive the Holocaust, arranged its publication. It has since been translated into more than 70 languages.