1946

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1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. (the link is to a full 1946 calendar)

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Events

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January

January 2 - Unable to resume his rule over Albania after World War II, King Zog abdicated but retained his claim to the throne.
January 4 - Theodore Schurch becomes the last person to be executed for offences committed under the Treachery Act of 1940
January 7 - Allies recognize Austrian republic with 1937 borders - the country is divided into four occupation zones
January 10 - First meeting of the United Nations
January 10 - 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 outerspace, effectively opening the space age.
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 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.
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

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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

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March

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

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April

April 1 - 14-meter high tsunami strikes Hilo, Hawaii - 173 dead, thousands injured.
April 1 - Formation of the Malayan Union.
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, 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, last before communist take over
May 31 - Greece referendum supports return of monarchy

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June

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 and goes into exile in Portugal; Alcide de Gasperi becomes head of state.
June 17 - Tornado on the Detroit river - 17 dead

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July-September

July 4 - After over 425 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 18 - Founding of Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California.
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

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October

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.