1946 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1946?
- January 3, 1946 – Popular Canadian-American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
- January 11, 1946 – Enver Hoxha declares the People’s Republic of Albania with himself as president.
- January 22, 1946 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
- February 2, 1946 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
- February 15, 1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
- 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.
- March 29, 1946 – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico’s leading universities, is founded.
- April 3, 1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
- April 5, 1946 – Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11 month occupation.
- June 18, 1946 – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
- June 27, 1946 – In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
- July 7, 1946 – Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
- July 22, 1946 – King David Hotel bombing: a Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
- October 1, 1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
- October 16, 1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
- November 1, 1946 – The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks would win 68–66.
- December 11, 1946 – The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
- 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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