General fact: 47983 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
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Trivia: 47983 is an uninteresting number.
Historical date: May 16th is the day in 1960 that Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.