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April 1, 1947
On April 1, 1947, the only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins. Moses Blah, Jerzy Stuhr, James Woods would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · April 1, 1947
The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
During April 1947, the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) experienced a series of non-violent mutinies amongst the enlisted sailors of four ships and two shore bases. Over 20 per cent of the RNZN's enlisted personnel were punished or discharged for their involvement. The main cause was the poor rates of pay compared to the rest of the New Zealand Defence Force and equivalent civilian wages, exacerbated by the release of a long overdue government review which failed to address the issue.
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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 April 1, 1947
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1947 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins. Series of mutinies in the New Zealand navy
During April 1947, the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) experienced a series of non-violent mutinies amongst the enlisted sailors of four ships and two shore bases. Over 20 per cent of the RNZN's enlisted personnel were punished or discharged for their involvement. The main cause was the poor rates of pay compared to the rest of the New Zealand Defence Force and equivalent civilian wages, exacerbated by the release of a long overdue government review which failed to address the issue.
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Other moments from 1947
- 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.
- April 30 In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
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