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October 5, 1947
On October 5, 1947, president Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address. Moses Blah, Jerzy Stuhr, James Woods would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · October 5, 1947
President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
An Oval Office address is a type of speech made by the president of the United States, usually but not always in the Oval Office at the White House. It is considered among the most solemn settings for an address made by a leader, and is most often delivered to announce a major new policy initiative, on the occasion of a leader's departure from office, or during times of national emergency.
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The year in brief
1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.
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On October 5, 1947
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1947 President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address. Speech by the President of the United States
An Oval Office address is a type of speech made by the president of the United States, usually but not always in the Oval Office at the White House. It is considered among the most solemn settings for an address made by a leader, and is most often delivered to announce a major new policy initiative, on the occasion of a leader's departure from office, or during times of national emergency.
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Other moments from 1947
- April 1 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
- April 15 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
- April 16 An explosion on board a freighter in port causes Texas City in the state of Texas, United States, to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.
- April 16 Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- April 18 The Operation Big Bang, the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion to that time, destroys bunkers and military installations on the North Sea island of Heligoland, Germany.
- April 28 Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
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