What day of the week was October 14, 1947?

The day of the week October 14th, 1947 fell on was a Tuesday.

Norman Harris the American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (MFSB) (d. 1987) was born on 14 October in 1947. As was Nikolai Volkoff the Croatian-American wrestler .

Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft the the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.