1946

Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

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Events of 1946

January 7 - The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with 1937 borders, and divide the country into 4 occupation zones.

January 10: First meeting of UN.

January 10 - The first meeting of the United Nations is held in London.
January 10 - Project Diana bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the earth and the moon, and proving that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the space age.
January 11 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister.
January 11 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob's ashes go back to Colombia.
January 16 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as a head of a French provisional government.
January 17 - The UN Security Council holds its first session.
January 17 - Senator Dennis Chavez (D-NM) calls for a vote on an FEPC bill which calls for an end to discrimination in the workplace. A filibuster prevents it from passing.
January 20 - Charles De Gaulle resigns as president of France.
January 22 - Iran: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at the Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president, Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.

Jan. 28: Bluenose founders.

January 25 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
January 28 - The Canadian schooner Bluenose founders on a Haitian reef.
January 29 - The Central Intelligence Group is established (the CIA in 1947).
January 31 - Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes 6 constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).

February 1 - Trygve Lie of Norway is selected to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
February 1 - The Kingdom of Hungary becomes a republic.
February 14 - The Bank of England is nationalized.
February 14 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
February 15 - Canada indicts 22 communist agents.
February 20 - An explosion kills more than 400 coal miners in West Germany.
February 24 - Juan Peron is elected president of Argentina.
February 28 - In Philadelphia, General Electric strikers and police clash.

March 2 - British troops withdraw from Iran according to treaty; the Soviets do not.
March 2 - Ho Chi Minh is elected President of North Vietnam.
March 4 - C.G.E. Mannerheim resigns as president of Finland.
March 5 - In his speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill talks about the Iron Curtain.
March 6 - Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
March 6 - A communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
March 7 - The 18th Academy Awards ceremony is held.
March 9 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi becomes president of Finland.
March 10 - British troops begin withdrawing from Lebanon.
March 15 - Clement Attlee promises independence to India as soon as they can agree on a constitution.
March 19 - The Soviet Union and Switzerland resume diplomatic relations.
March 19 - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
March 22 – The United Kingdom grants Transjordan, as it is then known, its independence; 3 years later the country changes its name to Jordan.[1]
March 29 - The Gold Coast has an African majority in its parliament.

April 1 - A 14-meter high tsunami strikes Hilo and Laupāhoehoe on the Big Island of Hawaii; 173 are killed, thousands injured.
April 1 - The Malayan Union is formed.
April 1 - Singapore becomes a Crown colony.
April 3 - Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila, the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
April 10 - In Japan, women vote for the first time, during elections for the House of Representatives of the 90th Imperial Diet.
April 17 - Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
April 18 - The United States recognizes Josip Broz Tito's government in Yugoslavia.
April 18 - The League of Nations, in its last meeting, transfers its mission to the United Nations and disbands itself.
April 23 - The Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League (Which is now the CBA) is founded.
April 29 - Trial against war criminals begin in Tokyo; the accused include Hideki Tojo, Shigenori Togo and Hiroshi Oshima.