Timeline September 1947

Events in September 1947 5

• 1861 – 1947 Victor Horta (1861-1947) Died 8 September 1947, aged 86 Victor Horta was a Belgian architect and one of the founders of Art Nouveau. His Hôtel Tassel in Brussels is considered the first true Art Nouveau building. His major Brussels town houses are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• 1882 – 1947 Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947) Died 20 September 1947, aged 64 Fiorello La Guardia was a reforming Republican mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945. He modernised the city's infrastructure and fought against machine politics. He later served as director-general of UNRRA.
• 1947 First Edinburgh International Festival Arts festival founded to reunite postwar Europe The first Edinburgh International Festival opened on 24 August 1947 and ran for three weeks, with the Vienna Philharmonic among the performers. Eight uninvited theatre companies performed on the margins, which was the start of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Edinburgh has since become the world's largest arts festival city.
• 1947 First computer bug logged A moth is found in the Harvard Mark II On 9 September 1947, operators of the Harvard Mark II computer found a moth trapped in a relay. They taped it into the logbook with the note: First actual case of bug being found. The incident, associated with Grace Hopper, is often cited in the history of the term debugging.
• 1947 – present Stephen King American novelist King is a prolific horror writer known for novels exploring fear, trauma, and supernatural forces.