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.
- 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.
- February 14, 1946 – The Bank of England is nationalized.
- February 15, 1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
- March 2, 1946 – Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
- March 21, 1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
- May 1, 1946 – The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
- May 8, 1946 – Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
- May 9, 1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
- 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.
- September 19, 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
- October 1, 1946 – Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
- October 23, 1946 – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
- 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 19, 1946 – Start of the First Indochina War.
- 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.
- December 25, 1946 – The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within Soviet nuclear reactor F-1.
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