1946 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1946?
- January 10, 1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
- January 19, 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
- January 25, 1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
- 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.
- February 18, 1946 – Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutinied in Mumbai harbour, from where it would spread throughout British India and involve 78 ships, 20 shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
- February 26, 1946 – Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
- 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.
- April 1, 1946 – Formation of the Malayan Union.
- April 17, 1946 – Syria obtains its Independence from the French occupation.
- 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 10, 1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
- June 6, 1946 – The National Basketball Association is created, with eleven original teams.
- July 10, 1946 – Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours.
- September 2, 1946 – The Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
- November 19, 1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
- December 2, 1946 – The 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 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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