1946

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Modèle:Year nav Modèle:C20YearInTopicX Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. Modèle:C20YearTOCship

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Events of 1946

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January

January 4- George Woolf killed in racing accident.
January 7 - Allies recognize Austrian republic with 1937 borders - the country is divided into four occupation zones

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January 10: First meeting of UN.

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January 10: Project Diana

January 10
- First meeting of the United Nations
- Project Diana bounces Radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the earth and the moon and proving that the communication was possible between the earth and outer space, effectively opening the space age.
January 11
- Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as prime minister.
- Porfirio Barba-Jacob's ashes go back to Colombia.
January 16 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as a head of a French provisional government
January 17
- The UN Security Council holds its first session
- Senator Dennis Chavez (D-NM) calls for a vote on an FEPC bill which called for the end to discrimination in the work place. A filibuster prevents it from passing.
January 20 - Charles De Gaulle resigns as president of France
January 22 - Iran:Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at the Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president, Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.

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Jan. 28: Bluenose will founder.

January 25 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.

January 28 - Bluenose founders on a Haitian reef.

January 29 - Central Intelligence Group established, CIA established in 1947
January 31 - Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).

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February

February 1 - Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
February 2 - Kingdom of Hungary becomes a republic.
February 14
- The Bank of England nationalized
- ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania
February 15 - Canada indicts 22 communist agents.
February 20 - Explosion kills more than 400 coal miners in West Germany.
February 24 - Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
February 28 - In Philadelphia, strikers of General Electric and police clash

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March

March 2
- British troops withdraw from Iran according to treaty - Soviets do not.
- Ho Chi Minh elected the President of North Vietnam
March 4 - C.G.E. Mannerheim resigns from the post of president of Finland
March 5 - In his speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill talks about the Iron Curtain.
March 6
- Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
- A communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
March 9 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi becomes president of Finland
March 10 - British troops begin withdrawal from Lebanon
March 13 - A Philosopher predicts the coming of Adam Spicer
March 15 - Clement Attlee promises independence to India as soon as they can agree on constitution
March 19
- Soviet Union and Switzerland reform diplomatic relations.
- French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France
March 22 – Great Britain grants Transjordan, as it was then known, its independence. Three years later the country changes its name to Jordan. <ref>"Year by Year 1946" -- History Channel International</ref>
March 29 - Gold Coast has an African majority in the parliament

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April

April 1
- 14-meter high tsunami strikes Hilo and Laupāhoehoe on the Big Island of Hawaii - 173 dead, thousands injured.
- Formation of the Malayan Union.
- Singapore becomes a Crown colony
April 3 - Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
April 7 - Syria's independence from France is officially recognised
April 10 - In Japan, women vote for the first time in parliamentarian elections
April 18 - USA recognizes Josip Broz Tito's government in Yugoslavia
April 18 - Last meeting of League of Nations – it transfers its mission to United Nations and disbands itself.
April 23 - the Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League (Which is now the CBA) was founded
April 29 - Trial against war criminals begin in Tokyo – accused include Hideki Tojo, Shigenori Togo and Hiroshi Oshima.

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May

May 2 - Six prisoners unsuccessfully try to escape from the Alcatraz prison island
May 7 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with about 20 employees.
May 9 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, and is succeeded by his son Humbert II.
May 10 - Nehru elected leader of the Congress Party in India
May 20 - In Britain, the House of Commons decides to nationalize mines.
May 21 - Radiation accident in Los Alamos laboratory; Dr Louis Slotin saves his coworkers but receives a fatal dose of radiation. Incident is initially classified
May 22 - Kingdom of Transjordan founded.
May 25 - The parliament of Transjordan makes emir Abdullah their king.
May 26 - Czechoslovak parliamentary election, with Communist victory (38%), last before communist take power
May 31 - Greece referendum supports return of monarchy

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June

June 1 - Ion Antonescu, prime minister and "Conducator" (Leader) of Romania during World War II is executed; he was found guilty of betraying Romanian people for benefits of Germany and sentenced to death by Bucharest People's Tribunal.
June 2 - In a referendum Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After this referendum, the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia was exiled. Women vote for the first time.
June 6 - The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
June 8 - In Indonesia, Sukarno incites his supporters to fight Dutch colonial occupation
June 9 - In Thailand, King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) accedes the throne after the mysterious death of his brother, King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII).
June 9 - Arthur John "Jack" Johnson, first African-American heavy-weight boxing champion, dies in a high speed car crash.
June 10 - Italy declared republic
June 13 - Humbert II of Italy leaves the country and goes into exile in Portugal; Alcide de Gasperi becomes head of state.
June 17 - Tornado on the Detroit River - 17 dead
- Laurence Olivier's Henry V opens in the United States nearly two years after its release in England. It is the first Shakespeare film in color, and critics hail it as the finest film of a Shakespeare play ever made.

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July

July 4 - Ankara University is founded.
July 4 - After over 381 years of Western dominance, the Philippines achieves full independence.
July 5 - Bikinis go on sale in Paris
July 7 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American saint to be canonized.
July 21 - Irgun bomb explodes in Jerusalem.
July 22 - King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration killing 90.
July 25 - Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean when the United States detonates the "Baker Day" device.
July 25 - At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.

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August

August 18 - Approximately 70 people die in the Vergarolla explosion.
August 19 - Violence between Muslims and Hindus in Calcutta leaves 3000 dead.
August 25 - Ben Hogan wins PGA Championship

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September

September 4 - Street violence between Muslims and Hindus in Bombay.
September 5 - Freddie Mercury is born.
September 8 - Bulgaria declared a People's Republic after a referendum – King Simeon II leaves.
September 24 - Cathay Pacific Airways was founded by Roy C Farrell and H de Kantzow.
September 28 - George II of Greece returns to Athens

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October

October 1 - Author Tim O'Brien (author) is born.
October 2 - Communists take over in Bulgaria
October 13 - France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
October 15 - Nuremberg Trials: Founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, Hermann Göring, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution.
October 23 - United Nations' first meeting in Long Island.

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November

November 1 - The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks would win 68-66.
November 6 - Senate and House elections in the United States both give majorities to the Republicans.
November 8 - Vietnamese riot in Haiphong and clash with French troops. French cruiser Suffren opens fire. 6000 Vietnamese killed.
November 10 - Opening of the Slimbridge wetland reserve in England.
November 12
- Truce between Indonesian nationalist troops and Dutch army in Indonesia.
- A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
November 17 - Eight British servicemen are killed in Jerusalem by Jewish nationalists.
November 15 - Netherlands recognized Republic of Indonesia.
November 19
- Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations
- Romanian general election, carried with 79.86% of the vote by the Romanian Communist Party through widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud
November 22 - Tony Benn is elected as Treasurer of the Oxford Union.
November 23 - The Workers Party of South Korea is founded.
November 27 - Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster."

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December

December 7 - Fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, United States kills 119.
December 11 - UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) founded.
December 12
- United Nations severs relations with Franco's Spain and recommends the member countries to sever diplomatic relations
- Léon Blum founds a government of socialist parties in France
- The new communist government held power in Tabriz center of Iranian Azerbaijan Provience.
December 19 - Martial law in Vietnam
December 22 - Havana Conference begins between US organized crime bosses in Havana, Cuba
December 24 - France's Fourth Republic founded
December 26 - Flamingo Hotel opens in Las Vegas.
- David Lean's Great Expectations, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, and featuring a cast headed by John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Francis L. Sullivan, Jean Simmons, and Finlay Currie, is released to great acclaim in England.
December 31 - President Harry Truman delivers Proclamation 2714, which officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.

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Undated

The 20mm M61 Vulcan Gatling gun contract is released.
Devil's Island penal colony closes permanently.
Female suffrage in Belgium, Romania, Yugoslavia, Argentina and Canadian province of Quebec. First female police officers in Korea and Japan.
Chinese Civil War intensifies between Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.
First Tupperware sold in department and hardware stores.
Grantley Adams becomes the premier of Barbados.
Alcatraz Island prison riot.
The British government takes emergency powers to deal with the balance-of-payments crisis.
Eva Perón tours Spain, Italy and France on behalf of Argentina, a circuit called the Rainbow Tour.
Breathalyzer machine for estimating blood alcohol concentration was invented.
Howard Hyde Russell established the Anti-Saloon League.
George Orwell writes Politics and the English Language
NFL team San Francisco 49ers is formed.
'Deaths and Entrances' by Dylan Thomas was published. It included one of Thomas' more famous poems, Fern Hill.