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.
- March 1, 1946 – The Bank of England is nationalised.
- March 5, 1946 – Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
- March 19, 1946 – French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
- 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 7, 1946 – Syria’s independence from France is officially recognised.
- April 20, 1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
- 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 5, 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- 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.
- August 3, 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world’s first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, US.
- September 2, 1946 – The Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
- October 13, 1946 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
- November 19, 1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
- December 9, 1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
- December 16, 1946 – Thailand joins the United Nations.
- December 19, 1946 – Start of the First Indochina War.
- December 31, 1946 – President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
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