1946 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1946?
- 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.
- February 2, 1946 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
- February 5, 1946 – The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
- March 5, 1946 – Winston Churchill uses the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
- March 6, 1946 – 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, 1946 – Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
- 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 8, 1946 – Électricité de France, the world’s largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.
- June 5, 1946 – A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.
- June 23, 1946 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
- August 3, 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world’s first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, US.
- August 4, 1946 – An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
- August 8, 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world’s first mass-produce nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.
- 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.
- October 1, 1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
- October 13, 1946 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
- October 24, 1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
- December 16, 1946 – Thailand joins the United Nations.
- December 31, 1946 – President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
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