1946 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1946?
- January 10, 1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
- January 22, 1946 – 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 25, 1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
- January 31, 1946 – Yugoslavia’s new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
- February 2, 1946 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
- February 8, 1946 – 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.
- February 14, 1946 – The Bank of England is nationalized.
- March 9, 1946 – Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, 33 killed and hundreds injured
- March 28, 1946 – Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
- April 29, 1946 – 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.
- May 8, 1946 – Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
- May 9, 1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
- June 5, 1946 – A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.
- July 25, 1946 – Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll.
- September 10, 1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters’ Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her “to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them”. She would become known as Mother Teresa.
- September 19, 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
- September 24, 1946 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
- December 11, 1946 – The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
- December 16, 1946 – Thailand joins the United Nations.
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