October 1947
The following events occurred in October 1947: October 1, 1947 (Wednesday) Dragoljub Yovanovich, leader of the Serbian Peasant Party, went on trial in Belgrade on charges of espionage and treason. The North American F-86 Sabre had its first flight. Rita Hayworth filed for divorce from Orson Welles. Born: Dave Arneson, game designer and co-developer of Dungeons & Dragons, in Hennepin County, Minnesota (d. 2009); Aaron Ciechanover, biologist and Nobel laureate, in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine; Stephen Collins, actor, in Des Moines, Iowa; Larry Lamb, actor and radio presenter, in Edmonton, Middlesex, England Died: Olive Borden, 41, American film and stage actress October 2, 1947 (Thursday) The Jewish Agency for Palestine gave conditional approval to a plan to partition Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state. The National Labor Relations Board issued its first temporary restraining order under the Taft-Hartley Act, ordering the AFL to end a 10-day strike in Albany, New York. The São Paulo Museum of Art opened to the public in São Paulo, Brazil. Died: P. D. Ouspensky, 69, Russian mathematician and esotericist October 3, 1947 (Friday) Palestinian Arabs staged a peaceful one-day general strike to protest the plan to partition the territory. Bill Bevens of the New York