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What Happened In History Year 1946

Historical Events for the Year 1946

  • 3rd January » Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
  • 10th January » The first United Nations General Assembly or General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
  • 10th January » The United States Army Signal Corps (United States Army) named Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
  • 17th January » The UN Security Council holds its first session.
  • 19th January » General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war crimes called war criminals.
  • 22nd January » Creation of the 'Central Intelligence Group', forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • 24th January » The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
  • 25th January » The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
  • 1st February » Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
  • 1st February » The National Assembly of Hungary called Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Republic of Hungary (1946–49) e.g Hungarian Republic.
  • 5th February » The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
  • 8th February » The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
  • 12th February » World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
  • 14th February » The Bank of England is nationalized.
  • 15th February » ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
  • 18th February » Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy Royal Indian Navy Mutiny mutiny in Mumbai Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Presidencies and provinces of British India Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments
  • 26th February » Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
  • 1st March » The Bank of England is nationalised.
  • 2nd March » Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
  • 5th March » Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
  • 6th March » Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
  • 9th March » Bolton Wanderers F.C. e.g Bolton Wanderers Burnden Park disaster e.g stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
  • 11th March » Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
  • 18th March » Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
  • 21st March » The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington (American football) known as Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
  • 24th March » The British 1946 Cabinet Mission to India Cabinet Mission, consisting of Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough A. V. Alexander, arrives in
  • 28th March » Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
  • 1st April » Aleutian Island earthquake: An 8.6 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands creates a tsunami that strikes the Hawaiian Islands killing 159, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii or Hilo.
  • 1st April » Formation of the Malayan Union.
  • 3rd April » Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
  • 5th April » Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11-month occupation.
  • 17th April » Syria obtains its independence from the French occupation.
  • 18th April » The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
  • 20th April » The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
  • 23rd April » Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
  • 26th April » Naperville train disaster kills 47.
  • 29th April » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
  • 29th April » Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
  • 1st May » Start of three-year 1946 Pilbara strike e.g Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
  • 1st May » The Paris Peace Conference, 1946 called Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
  • 2nd May » The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place; two guards and three inmates are killed.
  • 4th May » In San Francisco Bay, United States Marine Corps named U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island (California) e.g Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
  • 5th May » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
  • 7th May » Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
  • 8th May » Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet Union called Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
  • 9th May » King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II of Italy e.g Umberto II.
  • 10th May » First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Missile Range named White Sands Proving Ground.
  • 11th May » UMNO is created.
  • 21st May » Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  • 25th May » The parliament of Jordan called Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
  • 1st June » Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
  • 2nd June » Italian constitutional referendum, 1946 known as Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italy named Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.
  • 5th June » A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
  • 6th June » The National Basketball Association is created with eleven teams.
  • 18th June » Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portugal or Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
  • 23rd June » The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
  • 23rd June » The National Democratic Front (French India) or National Democratic Front wins a landslide victory in the French India municipal election, 1946 or municipal elections in French India.
  • 27th June » In the Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 called Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
  • 4th July » After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
  • 5th July » The bikini goes on sale after debuting during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris, France.
  • 7th July » Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
  • 7th July » Howard Hughes nearly dies when his Hughes XF-11 named XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills, California called Beverly Hills neighborhood.
  • 10th July » Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours.
  • 22nd July » King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for British Mandate for Palestine or Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
  • 25th July » Operation Crossroads: An Nuclear weapon called atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
  • 25th July » At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
  • 26th July » Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport
  • 1st August » Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II e.g collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
  • 4th August » An 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake e.g earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. One hundred are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
  • 16th August » Direct Action Day named Mass riots in Kolkata begin, in which more than 4,000 would be killed in 72 hours.
  • 16th August » The All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress is founded in Secunderabad.
  • 23rd August » Ordinance No. 46 of the Control Commission for Germany: British Element British Military Government constitutes the Germany German 'states of Germany Länder' (states) of State of Hanover Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
  • 29th August » USS Nevada BB-36 6 is decommissioned.
  • 2nd September » The interim government of India is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
  • 6th September » United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes Restatement of Policy on Germany or announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
  • 8th September » 95.6% vote in favour of Republicanism or abolishing the monarchy in Bulgaria.
  • 19th September » The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
  • 20th September » The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
  • 24th September » Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
  • 24th September » Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.
  • 1st October » Nazism or Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.
  • 1st October » Daegu October Incident occurs in United States Army Military Government in Korea known as Allied occupied Korea.
  • 1st October » Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
  • 13th October » France French constitutional referendum, October 1946 e.g adopts the constitution of the French Fourth Republic known as Fourth Republic.
  • 16th October » Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
  • 22nd October » Soviet Union or Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of post-World-War-II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union.
  • 23rd October » The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
  • 24th October » A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
  • 19th November » Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
  • 23rd November » French Navy known as French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Viet Nam, kills thousands of civilians. This was to lead to the First Indochina War.
  • 29th November » The SOBSI named All Indonesia Centre of Labour Organizations (SOBSI) is founded in Jakarta.
  • 7th December » Winecoff Hotel fire called A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta or Atlanta, Georgia, kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
  • 9th December » The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
  • 12th December » A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement, killing 37 people.
  • 14th December » The United Nations General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City or New York, New York.
  • 15th December » U.S.-backed Iranian troops evict the leadership of the breakaway Republic of Mahabad, putting an end to the Iran crisis of 1946.
  • 15th December » The first French India Representative Assembly election, 1946 e.g election to the Representative Assembly of French India was held.
  • 19th December » Start of the First Indochina War.
  • 21st December » An 8.1 Moment magnitude scale or Mw 1946 Nankaidō earthquake known as earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kills over 1,300 people and destroys over 38,000 homes.
  • 25th December » The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within Soviet Union e.g Soviet nuclear reactor F-1 (nuclear reactor) or F-1.
  • 31st December » President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.

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