Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.
Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.
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Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.
The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
NASA launches STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.
The First American Track and Field championships for women are held.
The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
The Battle of Pákozd is a stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces and is the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution.
J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130 for the feast of archangel Michael, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas.
Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician, 2nd First Minister of Wales (died 2017)
John Roberts became the 17th Chief Justice of the United States; he would be the first Chief Justice to serve for twenty years since Melville Fuller in 1908.
The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its first flight.
Mafalda, a popular comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina.
The first Indonesian legislative election resulted in an unexpectedly poor result for the Masyumi Party of incumbent prime minister Burhanuddin Harahap (pictured).
J. S. Bach led the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas, for the feast of archangel Michael.
The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the fiel�
NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.
Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant, the Vulcan Street Plant, begins operation.
The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.