Holocaust survivor refugees on board. July 17 Indian passenger ship is capsized by a cyclone at Mumbai, India, with 625 people killed. Alleged date when Raoul Wallenberg dies in a Soviet prison. It is not announced until February 6, 1957. There will be reported sightings of him until 1987. July 18 Following wide media and UNSCOP coverage, the Exodus is captured by British troops, and refused entry into Palestine at the port of Haifa. President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law, which places the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate next in the line of succession, after the vice president. July 19 – Burmese nationalist Aung San, and six members of his newly formed cabinet, are assassinated during a cabinet meeting. July 26 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into law to create the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council. July 27–28 – English endurance swimmer Tom Blower becomes the first person to swim the North Channel, from Donaghadee in Northern Ireland to Portpatrick in Scotland. July 29 After being shut down on November 9, 1946, for a refurbishment, the ENIAC computer in the United States is turned back on again, and remains in continuous operation until October 2, 1955. Original flying saucer witness Kenneth Arnold interviews Fred Crisman and Harold Dahl, who claims to have recovered material dropped from a flying saucer. Dahl also reports the first modern so-called "Men in Black" encounter. August August 1 – Indonesian airline Garuda Indonesia is established. August 2 – 1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust accident: A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile (the wreckage will not be found until 1998). August 5 – The Netherlands ends Operation Product, the first of its major politionele acties (military "police actions") in Indonesia. August 7 Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands, after a 101-day, 4,300 mile, voyage across the Eastern Pacific Ocean, demonstrating that prehistoric peoples could have traveled to the Central Pacific islands from South America. The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST). August 14 The Muslim majority regions formed