page_title: 1947 in the United States
section_title: October–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1947 in the United States / Events / October–December
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: Eight girls laying in the sand while tanning with jetty in the background at Cabrillo Beach, Calif., 1947 (cropped). Publication Los Angeles Times Publication date December 28, 1947 Subjects Bathing beaches; Bathing beauties; Cabrillo Beach at Category:San Pedro, Los Angeles.
context_page_description: Events from the year 1947 in the United States.
context_section_description: October–November – Great Fires of 1947: Forest fires in Maine consume more than 200,000 acres of wooded land statewide, including over 17,000 acres on Mount Desert Island alone. 16 persons are killed and more than 1,000 homes destroyed in the blazes, with total property damage exceeding $23 million.
  October – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigations into communism in Hollywood.
  October 6 – World Series games are broadcast on television for the first time.
  The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 games to 3, to win their 11th World Series Title.
  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 that this has been accomplished in  level flight, or climbing.
  October 20 – Pakistan establishes diplomatic relations with the United States.
  November 1 – U.S. Caribbean Command designated.
  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 6 – The program Meet the Press makes its television debut on the NBC-TV network in the United States.
  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).
  December 3 – The Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire opens in a Broadway theater.
  December 6 – Arturo Toscanini conducts a concert performance of the first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello, which was based on William Shakespeare's play Othello, for a broadcast on NBC Radio. The second half of the opera is broadcast a week later.
  December 22 – The first practical electronic transistor is demonstrated by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain working under William Shockley at AT&T's Bell Labs.
caption: Girls sunbathing at Cabrillo Beach, California, Dec. 28, 1947
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