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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1946


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 2 - Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
  • January 3 - William Joyce, American Nazi propagandist (executed) (b. 1906)
  • January 5 - Kitty Cheatham, American singer (b. 1864)
  • January 7 - Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874)
  • January 9 - Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)
  • January 9 - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
  • January 26 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1884)
  • January 29 - Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)
  • February 5 - George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868)
  • February 21 - José Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (b. 1911)
  • February 23 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (hanged) (b. 1885)
  • March 2 - Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian National socialist (b. 1895)
  • March 2 - George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
  • March 4 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
  • March 12 - Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian politician (executed) (b. 1897)
  • March 14 - Werner von Blomberg, field marshal (b. 1878)
  • March 17 - Dai Li, Chinese spymaster (b. 1897)
  • March 24 - Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
  • March 28 - Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)
  • April 1 - Noah Beery, American actor (b. 1882)
  • April 5 - Vincent Youmans, American songwriter (b. 1898)
  • April 16 - Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)
  • April 21 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
  • April 22 - Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1872)
  • April 22 - Lionel Atwill, English Actor (b. 1885)
  • April 28 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870)
  • May 19 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
  • May 20 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)
  • May 29 - Martin Gottfried Weiss, Commandant of Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905)
  • May 30 - Louis Slotin, Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos (b. 1910)
  • June 1 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882)
  • June 6 - Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist
  • June 9 - Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII
  • June 10 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
  • June 14 - John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (b. 1888)
  • June 24 - Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
  • June 26 - Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (b. 1880)
  • June 26 - Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895)
  • July 4 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
  • July 13 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
  • July 15 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
  • July 17 - General Dragoljub Mihailović, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (b. 1893)
  • July 21 - Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
  • July 27 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874)
  • August 5 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
  • August 6 - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903)
  • August 9 - Bert Vogler, Former South African cricketer (b. 1876)
  • August 13 - H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866)
  • August 24 - James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
  • August 26 - Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
  • August 30 - Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907)
  • August 30 - Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
  • September 13 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter (b. 1875)
  • September 13 - Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (b. 1908)
  • September 17 - Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
  • September 20 - Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
  • September 21 - Olga Engl, Austrian actress (b. 1871)
  • September 25 - Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and war criminal (b. 1879)
  • October 4 - Barney Oldfield, American automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
  • October 12 - Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (b. 1883)
  • October 15 - Hermann Göring, German air force commander (suicide) (b. 1893)
  • November 14 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
  • November 22 - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist (b. 1889)
  • December 5 - Louis Dewis, Belgian Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1872)
  • December 7 - Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (b. 1871)
  • December 10 - Walter Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1887)
  • December 10 - Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1884)
  • December 19 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)
  • December 23 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (b. 1873)
  • December 25 - W. C. Fields, American comedian (b. 1880)

Events
  • January 2 - Unable to resume rule after World War II, King Zog of Albania abdicates but retains his claim to the throne.
  • January 10 - The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
  • January 11 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as dictator.
  • January 17 - The UN Security Council holds its first session.
  • January 19 - General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
  • January 22 - Iran: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president; Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.
  • January 22 - Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • January 25 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
  • 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 - The Proclamation of Hungarian Republic is made.
  • February 5 - The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
  • February 12 - World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
  • February 14 - The Bank of England is nationalized.
  • February 15 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • March 1 - The Bank of England is nationalised.
  • March 2 - Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
  • March 5 - Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
  • March 5 - Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
  • 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 18 - Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
  • March 19 - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
  • March 28 - Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
  • March 31 - The first election is held in Greece after World War II.
  • April 1 - Aleutian Island earthquake: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands creates a tsunami that strikes the Hawaiian Islands killing 159 (mostly in Hilo, Hawaii).
  • April 1 - Formation of the Malayan Union.
  • April 3 - Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
  • April 5 - Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11 month occupation.
  • April 7 - Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
  • April 8 - The last meeting of the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations, is held.
  • April 16 - Syria gains independence.
  • April 18 - The League of Nations is dissolved.
  • April 26 - 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.
  • April 29 - Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted for war crimes.
  • May 1 - Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
  • May 1 - The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
  • May 3 - 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.
  • May 4 - In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Navy Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
  • May 7 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
  • May 8 - The Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
  • May 9 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
  • May 10 - First successful launch of a V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
  • May 11 - UMNO is created.
  • May 25 - The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
  • June 1 - Ion Antonescu is executed.
  • June 2 - Birth of the Italian Republic: 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 is exiled.
  • June 5 - A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.
  • June 6 - The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
  • June 6 - Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with Argentina.
  • June 9 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
  • June 18 - Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
  • July 4 - After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule, the Philippines is granted full independence by the United States.
  • July 5 - The bikini is introduced in Paris, France.
  • July 7 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
  • July 7 - Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
  • July 20 - World War II: The US Congress's Pearl Harbor Committee says Franklin D. Roosevelt was completely blameless for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces.
  • 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 - Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll.
  • July 25 - At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
  • July 26 - Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport
  • August 4 - 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake: an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
  • August 8 - First flight of the Convair B-36.
  • August 23 - Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
  • September 19 - The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
  • September 20 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
  • September 24 - Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong
  • October 1 - Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
  • October 1 - Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
  • October 13 - France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
  • October 15 - Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Göring poisons himself the night before his execution.
  • October 16 - Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
  • October 22 - Forty four British sailors die when two British warships hit mines off the coast of Albania.
  • October 23 - The United Nations General Assembly convened for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
  • October 24 - A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
  • 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 12 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
  • November 19 - Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
  • November 23 - The Workers Party of South Korea is founded.
  • December 2 - British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.
  • December 7 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
  • December 9 - The "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials" began with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation.
  • December 11 - The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
  • December 12 - A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement killing 37 people.
  • December 14 - The UN General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City.
  • December 16 - Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France.
  • December 24 - France's Fourth Republic is founded.
  • December 31 - President Harry Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.


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