1946 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1946?
- January 17, 1946 – The UN Security Council holds its first session.
- 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 12, 1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
- March 2, 1946 – Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
- March 18, 1946 – Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
- March 19, 1946 – French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
- March 21, 1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
- March 24, 1946 – The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
- April 1, 1946 – Formation of the Malayan Union.
- May 1, 1946 – Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
- May 11, 1946 – UMNO is created.
- May 21, 1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- June 1, 1946 – Ion Antonescu, “Conducator” (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
- June 23, 1946 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
- July 4, 1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
- August 8, 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world’s first mass-produce nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.
- November 23, 1946 – French Navy fire in Hai Phong, Viet Nam, kills 6,000 civilians.
- December 16, 1946 – Thailand joins the United Nations.
- December 21, 1946 – An 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kill over 1,300 people and destroy over 38,000 homes.
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