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1946 is the common year starting on Tuesday. (see link for calendar)
Events
January 4 - Theodore Schurch becomes the last person to be executed for offences committed under the Treachery Act of 1940
January 7 - Allied recognize Austrian republic with 1937 borders - the country is divided into four occupation zones
January 10 - First meeting of the United Nations
January 11 - Enver Hoxha declares the people's republic of Albania with himself as prime minister.
January 11 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob's ashes go back to Colombia.
January 17 - The UN Security Council holds its first session
January 20 - Charles De Gaulle resigns as president of France
January 25 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor
January 28 - Bluenose founders on a Haitian reef
January 31 - Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
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
February 14 - 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 24 - Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
February 28 - In Philadelphia, strikers of General Electric and police clash
March 2 - British troops withdraw from Iran according to treaty - Soviets do not.
March 2 - 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 in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill talks about 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.
March 9 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi becomes president of Finland
March 10 - British troops begin withdrawal from Lebanon
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.
March 19 - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France
March 22 - Transjordan gains independence
March 29 - Gold Coast has an African majority in the parliament
March 31 - Herbert Hoover visits Finland
April 1 - 14-meter high tsunami strikes Hilo, Hawaii - 173 dead, thousands injured.
April 1 - 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 29 - Trial against war criminals begin in Tokyo – accused include Hideki Tojo, Shegenori Togo and Hiroshi Oshima.
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 28 - K. Satchidanandan Malayalam poet
May 29 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)
May 31 - Greece referendum supports return of monarchy
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 Rama IX accedes the throne.
June 10 - Italy declared republic
June 13 - Humbert II of Italy leaves the country – Alcide de Gasperi becomes head of state.
June 17 - Tornado on the Detroit river - 17 dead
July 4 - After over 400 years, the Philippines achieves full independence.
July 5 - The bikini is introduced.
July 7 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American saint to be canonized.
July 21 - Bomb of Irgun Zvai Leumi 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.
August 19 - Violence between Muslims and Hindus in Calcutta – 3000 dead.
August 25 - Ben Hogan wins PGA Championship
September 4 - Street violence between Muslims and Hindus in Bombay.
September 8 - Bulgaria declared a People's Republic after a referendum – King Simeon II leaves.
September 28 - George II of Greece returns to Athens
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.
November 8 - Vietnamese riot in Haiphong and clash with French troops. French cruiser Suffren opens fire. 6000 Vietnamese killed.
November 12 - Truce between Indonesian nationalist troops and Dutch army in Indonesia.
November 12 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
November 15 - Netherlands recognized Republic of Indonesia.
November 19 - Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden joins the United Nations
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."
December 11 - UNICEF founded.
December 12 - United Nations severs relations with Franco's Spain and recommends the member countries to sever diplomatic relations
December 12 - Leon Blum founds a government of socialist parties in France
December 19 - Martial law in Vietnam
December 24 - France's Fourth Republic founded
December 26 - Flamingo Hotel opens in Las Vegas.
December 31 - President Harry Truman officially proclaims an end of hostilities in World War II.
unknown dates
Phantom rockets over Sweden
The 20mm M61 Vulcan gatling gun is invented
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
Year in topic
1946 in film
The Best Years of Our Lives
Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart
Henry V
The Razor's Edge
Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious starring Cary Grant
The Big Sleep starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
Paisŕ by Roberto Rossellini
Il sole orge ancora by Aldo Vergano
1946 in literature
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
Animal Farm by George Orwell – becomes book of the year in USA
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Baby and child care by Benjamin Spock
1946 in music
1946 in rail transport
1946 in sports
1946 in television
February 4 – RCA demonstrates all-electronic color television system.
February 18 - The first Washington-New York telecast through AT&T coaxial cable is termed success by engineers and viewers.
April 22 - CBS color television program is successfully transmitted over a 450-mile coaxial cable link from New York to Washington
May 9 - The first variety show premieres, Hour Glass, on NBC.
June 7 - The BBC begins broadcasting again and reshows the Mickey Mouse cartoon, that had been interrupted seven years earlier at the start of the World War II.
June 19 - The first televised heavyweight title fight between Joe Louis and Billy Conn is broadcast from Yankee Stadium. The fight was seen by 141,000 people, the largest television audience to see a fight.
October 2 - The first TV network soap opera, Faraway Hill, airs on the DuMont Network.
December 24 - The first church service is telecast, Grace Episcopal Church in New York, on WABD.
ToKyo Tushin Kogyo founded, which would later become Sony
Zoomar introduces the first professional zoom lens
Births
January
January 3 - John Paul Jones, bassist from Led Zeppelin
January 5 - Diane Keaton, actress
January 6 - Syd Barrett, guitarist and singer
January 8 - Robby Krieger, musician ("The Doors")
January 11 - Naomi Judd, country music singer
January 11 - John Piper, American theologian
January 12 - George Duke, musician
January 14 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer
January 16 - Kabir Bedi, actor
January 16 - Ronnie Milsap, singer
January 16 - Katia Ricciarelli, opera singer
January 18 - Joseph Deiss, member of the Swiss Federal Council
January 19 - Dolly Parton, singer, actress
January 20 - David Lynch, film director
January 21 - Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
January 22 - Serge Savard, Hall of Fame ice hockey player, executive
January 24 - Michael Ontkean, actor
January 26 - Gene Siskel, film critic (d. 1999)
January 31 - Terry Kath, musician (d. 1978)
February-March
February 6 - Jim Turner, American politician
February 11 - M C Walker, CEO of Iceland Frozen Foods
February 11 - Timothy Chambers, pediatrician
February 14 - Bernard Dowiyogo, president of Nauru (d. 2003)
February 14 - Gregory Hines, dancer, actor (d. 2003)
February 20 - Jerome Geils of the J Geils band
February 20 - Brenda Blethyn, actress
February 21 - Tyne Daly, actress
February 21 - Alan Rickman, actor
February 24 - Barry Bostwick, actor
February 25 - Franz Xaver Kroetz, dramatist
February 27 - José Carreras, Spanish tenor
February 28 - Robin Cook, British politician
March 3 - Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
March 6 - David Gilmour, musician ("Pink Floyd")
March 7 - Peter Wolf, musician ("J Geils Band")
March 12 - Liza Minnelli, singer and actress
March 21 - Timothy Dalton, actor ("James Bond")
March 22 - André Heller, artist
March 31 - Gonzalo Márquez, Major League Baseball player (d. 1984)
April-June
April 4 - Dave Hill, Slade, guitarist
April 7 - Colette Besson, French runner
April 12 - Ed O'Neill, actor
April 25 - Talia Shire, actress
April 30 - Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, Swedish monarch (1973- )
May 7 - Thelma Houston, singer
May 9 - Candice Bergen, actress
May 10 - Donovan Leitch, musician
May 10 - Dave Mason, musician ("Traffic")
May 11 - Robert Jarvik, physicist, inventor
May 17 - Udo Lindenberg, musician
May 18 - Reggie Jackson, Baseball Hall of Famer
May 19 - André the Giant, wrestler (d. 1993)
May 20 - Cher, American singer
May 22 - George Best, footballer
May 23 - David Graham, golf champion
May 26 - Mick Ronson, guitarist (d. 1993)
June 6 - Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper
June 14 - Donald Trump, American real estate magnate
June 15 - Noddy Holder, Slade, singer
June 23 - Kathy Wilkes
June 24 - Ellison Onizuka, astronaut (d. 1986)
July-August
July 2 - Richard Axel, scientist
July 6 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
July 6 - Sylvester Stallone, actor
July 8 - Elizabeth Gomez, minister and poet
July 9 - Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC (d. 1980)
July 10 - Robert W. Jones, Minister and Writer
July 15 - Linda Ronstadt, singer, songwriter
July 16 - Ron Yary, Pro Football Hall of Famer
July 22 - Mireille Mathieu, French singer
July 25 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer, widow of Bob Marley
July 30 - Neil Bonnett, NASCAR driver (d. 1994)
August 3 - Jack Straw, British politician
August 19 - Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
August 19 - Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
August 20 - N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
August 25 - Rollie Fingers, baseball pitcher
August 29 - Bob Beamon, American long jumper
September
September 5 - Freddie Mercury, British singer
September 7 - Francisco Varela, biologist
September 10 - Jim Hines, American athlete
September 10 - Don Powell, Slade, drummer
September 15 - Tommy Lee Jones, actor (The Fugitive, Men in Black)
September 15 - Oliver Stone, American film director (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK)
September 21 - Moritz Leuenberger, member of the Swiss Federal Council
September 23 - Franz Fischler, politician
September 24 - Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
September 30 - Héctor Lavoe, salsa music singer
October
October 1 - Tim O'Brien, American author
October 6 - Lloyd Doggett, American politician
October 7 - Catharine MacKinnon
October 8 - Margot Adler
October 8 - Hanan Ashrawi
October 9 - Tansu Ciller, Turkish politician
October 10 - Pearlette Louisy
October 13 - Edwina Currie
October 16 - Suzanne Somers, actress
October 17 - Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter and actor
October 21 - Lyn Allison, Australian politician
October 22 - Eileen Gordon, British politician
October 23 - Graca Machel
October 24 - Karen Silkwood
October 26 - Pat Sajak, game show host
October 27 - Ivan Reitman, movie director, producer
October 29 - Kathryn J. Whitmire
October 31 - Caroline Jackson, UK politician
November-December
November 1 - Marina Abramovic
November 2 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor, composer (d. 2001)
November 4 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
November 5 - Herman Brood, Dutch rock 'n' roll artist
November 5 - Gram Parsons, country music/rock musician
November 11 - Corrine Brown, US politician
November 20 - Greg Cook, American football quarterback
November 20 - Judy Woodruff
November 24 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer
November 30 - Barbara Cubin
December 4 - Angela Browning, British politician
December 9 - Sonia Gandhi, Indian politician
December 16 - Trevor Pinnock, English conductor, harpsichordist
December 18 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
December 26 - Joyce Jillson
Deaths
January 29 - Harry Hopkins, politician
February 5 - George Arliss, actor
March 23 - Gilbert N. Lewis, physical chemist.
March 24 - Alexander Alekhine, chess champion
April 1 - Noah Beery, actor
April 22 - Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1872)
May 17 - William Jefferson Blythe III, father of U.S. President Bill Clinton
May 19 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist
June 1 - Ion Antonescu
June 10 - Jack Johnson, African-American boxer
July 8 - Orrick Glenday Johns, poet & playwright
Alfred Stock German chemist
August 13 - H.G. Wells, science fiction writer
October 15 - Hermann Göring, prominent Nazi leader, marshall of the Third Reich, head of the Airforce (suicide)
October 16 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader, governor of The Netherlands during the German occupation (1940-1945) (executed)
November 14 - Manuel de Falla, composer
December 10 - Walter Johnson, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1887)
December 25 - W.C. Fields, Actor/Comedian
unknown date
Arlene Feynman, wife of Richard Feynman
Physics - Percy Williams Bridgman
Chemistry - James B. Sumner, John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley
Medicine - Hermann Joseph Muller
Literature - Hermann Hesse
Peace - Emily Greene Balch John Mott
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