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  • U.S.
    1946
    Desmond Doss: Hacksaw Ridge

    Post war life

    U.S.
    1946

    After the war, Doss initially planned to continue his career in carpentry, but extensive damage to his left arm made him unable to do so. In 1946, Doss was diagnosed with tuberculosis, which he had contracted on Leyte. He underwent treatment for five and a half years – which cost him a lung and five ribs – before being discharged from the hospital in August 1951 with 90% disability.




  • Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
    1946
    Jimmy Carter

    Graduated

    Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
    1946

    Carter graduated 60th out of 820 midshipmen in the class of 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and was commissioned as an ensign.




  • Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
    1946
    Howard Hughes: The Aviator

    Another Plane Survive

    Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
    1946

    He also survived the near-fatal crash of the Hughes XF-11 in 1946.




  • U.S.
    Thursday Jan 3, 1946
    Lucky Luciano

    Reward for his alleged wartime cooperation

    U.S.
    Thursday Jan 3, 1946

    On January 3, 1946, as a presumed reward for his alleged wartime cooperation (in WWII), Dewey reluctantly commuted Luciano's pandering sentence on condition that he did not resist deportation to Italy.




  • U.S.
    1946
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Du Bois ignored the NAACP's desires

    U.S.
    1946

    Ignoring the NAACP's desires, Du Bois continued to fraternize with communist sympathizers such as Paul Robeson, Howard Fast and Shirley Graham (his future second wife). Du Bois wrote "I am not a communist ... On the other hand, I ... believe ... that Karl Marx ... put his finger squarely upon our difficulties ...".




  • New York, U.S.
    Saturday Feb 2, 1946
    Lucky Luciano

    To Ellis Island in New York Harbor for deportation proceedings

    New York, U.S.
    Saturday Feb 2, 1946

    On February 2, 1946, two federal immigration agents transported Luciano from Sing Sing prison to Ellis Island in New York Harbor for deportation proceedings.




  • Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
    Sunday Feb 10, 1946
    Lucky Luciano

    Luciano's ship sailed

    Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
    Sunday Feb 10, 1946

    On February 10, Luciano's ship sailed from Brooklyn harbor for Italy.


  • Fulton, Missouri, U.S.
    Tuesday Mar 5, 1946
    Winston Churchill

    "Iron Curtain"

    Fulton, Missouri, U.S.
    Tuesday Mar 5, 1946

    Churchill continued to lead the Conservative Party and, for six years, served as Leader of the Opposition. In 1946, he was in America for nearly three months from early January to late March. It was on this trip that he gave his "Iron Curtain" speech about the USSR and its creation of the Eastern Bloc. Speaking on 5 March 1946 in the company of President Truman at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, Churchill declared: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere.


  • Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
    Friday Mar 8, 1946
    Bretton Woods Conference

    Formally organized at an inaugural meeting

    Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
    Friday Mar 8, 1946

    The institutions (IMF and IBRD) were formally organized at an inaugural meeting in Savannah, Georgia, on March 8–18, 1946.


  • Philadelphia, U.S.
    Sunday Mar 10, 1946
    Richard Nixon

    Nixon was Relieved of Active Duty

    Philadelphia, U.S.
    Sunday Mar 10, 1946

    On March 10, 1946, he was relieved of active duty, and he resigned his commission on New Year's Day 1946.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday May 6, 1946
    International Monetary Fund

    First Managing Director

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday May 6, 1946

    Camille Gutt was a Belgian economist, politician, and industrialist. He served as the first Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 6 May 1946 to 5 May 1951.


  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, U.S.
    Tuesday May 21, 1946
    Atomic Bomb

    Physicist Louis Slotin received a lethal dose of radiation

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, U.S.
    Tuesday May 21, 1946

    21 May 1946: While conducting further impromptu experiments on the third plutonium core at Los Alamos National Laboratory, physicist Louis Slotin received a lethal dose of radiation. He died on 30 May 1946.


  • Queens, New York, U.S.
    Friday Jun 14, 1946
    Donald Trump

    Birth

    Queens, New York, U.S.
    Friday Jun 14, 1946

    Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at the Jamaica Hospital in the borough of Queens, New York City. His father was Frederick Christ Trump, a Bronx-born real estate developer, whose own parents were German immigrants. His mother was Scottish-born housewife and socialite Mary Anne MacLeod Trump.


  • Los Angeles, California, USA
    Jun, 1946
    Marilyn Monroe

    Monroe signs a contract

    Los Angeles, California, USA
    Jun, 1946

    Monroe signed a contract with an acting agency in June 1946. After an unsuccessful interview at Paramount Pictures, she was given a screen-test by Ben Lyon, a 20th Century-Fox executive. Head executive Darryl F. Zanuck was unenthusiastic about it, but he was persuaded to give her a standard six-month contract to avoid her being signed by rival studio RKO Pictures, and Monroe's contract began in August. On July 23, 1946 she signed a contract with Twentieth Century-Fox Studios. (POF)


  • New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
    Saturday Jul 6, 1946
    George W. Bush

    Birth

    New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
    Saturday Jul 6, 1946

    George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946, at Yale–New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut.


  • U.S.
    Friday Sep 13, 1946
    Marilyn Monroe

    1st Divorce

    U.S.
    Friday Sep 13, 1946

    In September 1946, she divorced Dougherty, who was against her having a career.


  • U.S.
    Monday Sep 30, 1946
    DC Comics

    National Periodical Publications

    U.S.
    Monday Sep 30, 1946

    National Comics Publications absorbed an affiliated concern, Max Gaines' and Liebowitz' All-American Publications. In the same year Gaines let Liebowitz buy him out, and kept only Picture Stories from the Bible as the foundation of his own new company, EC Comics. At that point, "Liebowitz promptly orchestrated the merger of All-American and Detective Comics into National Comics... Next he took charge of organizing National Comics, [the self-distributorship] Independent News, and their affiliated firms into a single corporate entity, National Periodical Publications".


  • New York, U.S.
    Monday Sep 30, 1946
    DC Comics

    National Comics Publications

    New York, U.S.
    Monday Sep 30, 1946

    National Allied Publications soon merged with Detective Comics, Inc., forming National Comics Publications on September 30, 1946.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Saturday Oct 12, 1946
    Louis Armstrong

    A Guest artist with Lionel Hampton's band

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Saturday Oct 12, 1946

    Armstrong was featured as a guest artist with Lionel Hampton's band at the famed second Cavalcade of Jazz concert held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles which was produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. on October 12, 1946.


  • San Francisco, California, U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 5, 1946
    Richard Nixon

    Winning In The 1946 California's 12th congressional district elections

    San Francisco, California, U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 5, 1946

    In 1945, Republicans in California's 12th congressional district were frustrated by their inability to defeat Democratic Congressman Jerry Voorhis and sought a consensus candidate who would run a strong campaign against him. They formed a "Committee of 100" to decide on a candidate hoping to avoid internal dissensions which had previously led to Voorhis victories. After the committee failed to attract higher-profile candidates Herman Perry, Whittier's Bank of America branch manager, suggested Nixon, a family friend with whom he had served on the Whittier College Board of Trustees before the war. Perry wrote to Nixon in Baltimore. After a night of excited talk between the Nixons, the naval officer responded to Perry with enthusiasm. Nixon flew to California and was selected by the committee. When he left the Navy at the start of 1946, Nixon and his wife returned to Whittier, where Nixon began a year of intensive campaigning. He contended that Voorhis had been ineffective as a congressman and suggested that Voorhis's endorsement by a group linked to communists meant that Voorhis must have radical views. Nixon won the election, receiving 65,586 votes to Voorhis's 49,994.


  • U.S.
    1946
    Xerox

    Developing the commercial product

    U.S.
    1946

    Joseph C. Wilson, credited as the "founder of Xerox", took over Haloid from his father. He saw the promise of Carlson's invention and, in 1946, signed an agreement to develop it as a commercial product. Wilson remained as President/CEO of Xerox until 1967 and served as Chairman until his death in 1971.


  • Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
    Sunday Nov 24, 1946
    Ted Bundy

    Birth

    Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
    Sunday Nov 24, 1946

    Ted Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell on November 24, 1946, to Eleanor Louise Cowell (1924–2012; known as Louise) at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont. His birth certificate is said to assign paternity to a salesman and Air Force veteran named Lloyd Marshall, though other accounts state his father is listed as "Unknown". Louise claimed she had been seduced by an old-money war veteran named Jack Worthington, and the King County Sheriff's Office has him listed as the father in their files. Some family members have expressed suspicions that Bundy might have been fathered by Louise's own violent, abusive father, Samuel Cowell, but no material evidence has ever been cited to support this.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    1946
    World Bank

    First President of the World Bank Group

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    1946

    Eugene Meyer served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933 and was the first President of the World Bank Group.


  • Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Dec, 1946
    Jimmy Hoffa

    President of Local 299

    Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Dec, 1946

    Although he never actually worked as a truck driver, Hoffa became president of Local 299 in December 1946.


  • Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
    Wednesday Dec 18, 1946
    Steven Spielberg

    Born

    Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
    Wednesday Dec 18, 1946

    Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio.


  • U.S.
    1946
    Desmond Doss: Hacksaw Ridge

    Post war life

    U.S.
    1946

    After the war, Doss initially planned to continue his career in carpentry, but extensive damage to his left arm made him unable to do so. In 1946, Doss was diagnosed with tuberculosis, which he had contracted on Leyte. He underwent treatment for five and a half years – which cost him a lung and five ribs – before being discharged from the hospital in August 1951 with 90% disability.


  • Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
    1946
    Jimmy Carter

    Graduated

    Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
    1946

    Carter graduated 60th out of 820 midshipmen in the class of 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and was commissioned as an ensign.


  • Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
    1946
    Howard Hughes: The Aviator

    Another Plane Survive

    Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
    1946

    He also survived the near-fatal crash of the Hughes XF-11 in 1946.


  • U.S.
    Thursday Jan 3, 1946
    Lucky Luciano

    Reward for his alleged wartime cooperation

    U.S.
    Thursday Jan 3, 1946

    On January 3, 1946, as a presumed reward for his alleged wartime cooperation (in WWII), Dewey reluctantly commuted Luciano's pandering sentence on condition that he did not resist deportation to Italy.


  • U.S.
    1946
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Du Bois ignored the NAACP's desires

    U.S.
    1946

    Ignoring the NAACP's desires, Du Bois continued to fraternize with communist sympathizers such as Paul Robeson, Howard Fast and Shirley Graham (his future second wife). Du Bois wrote "I am not a communist ... On the other hand, I ... believe ... that Karl Marx ... put his finger squarely upon our difficulties ...".


  • New York, U.S.
    Saturday Feb 2, 1946
    Lucky Luciano

    To Ellis Island in New York Harbor for deportation proceedings

    New York, U.S.
    Saturday Feb 2, 1946

    On February 2, 1946, two federal immigration agents transported Luciano from Sing Sing prison to Ellis Island in New York Harbor for deportation proceedings.


  • Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
    Sunday Feb 10, 1946
    Lucky Luciano

    Luciano's ship sailed

    Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
    Sunday Feb 10, 1946

    On February 10, Luciano's ship sailed from Brooklyn harbor for Italy.


  • Fulton, Missouri, U.S.
    Tuesday Mar 5, 1946
    Winston Churchill

    "Iron Curtain"

    Fulton, Missouri, U.S.
    Tuesday Mar 5, 1946

    Churchill continued to lead the Conservative Party and, for six years, served as Leader of the Opposition. In 1946, he was in America for nearly three months from early January to late March. It was on this trip that he gave his "Iron Curtain" speech about the USSR and its creation of the Eastern Bloc. Speaking on 5 March 1946 in the company of President Truman at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, Churchill declared: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere.


  • Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
    Friday Mar 8, 1946
    Bretton Woods Conference

    Formally organized at an inaugural meeting

    Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
    Friday Mar 8, 1946

    The institutions (IMF and IBRD) were formally organized at an inaugural meeting in Savannah, Georgia, on March 8–18, 1946.


  • Philadelphia, U.S.
    Sunday Mar 10, 1946
    Richard Nixon

    Nixon was Relieved of Active Duty

    Philadelphia, U.S.
    Sunday Mar 10, 1946

    On March 10, 1946, he was relieved of active duty, and he resigned his commission on New Year's Day 1946.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday May 6, 1946
    International Monetary Fund

    First Managing Director

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday May 6, 1946

    Camille Gutt was a Belgian economist, politician, and industrialist. He served as the first Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 6 May 1946 to 5 May 1951.


  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, U.S.
    Tuesday May 21, 1946
    Atomic Bomb

    Physicist Louis Slotin received a lethal dose of radiation

    Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, U.S.
    Tuesday May 21, 1946

    21 May 1946: While conducting further impromptu experiments on the third plutonium core at Los Alamos National Laboratory, physicist Louis Slotin received a lethal dose of radiation. He died on 30 May 1946.


  • Queens, New York, U.S.
    Friday Jun 14, 1946
    Donald Trump

    Birth

    Queens, New York, U.S.
    Friday Jun 14, 1946

    Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at the Jamaica Hospital in the borough of Queens, New York City. His father was Frederick Christ Trump, a Bronx-born real estate developer, whose own parents were German immigrants. His mother was Scottish-born housewife and socialite Mary Anne MacLeod Trump.


  • Los Angeles, California, USA
    Jun, 1946
    Marilyn Monroe

    Monroe signs a contract

    Los Angeles, California, USA
    Jun, 1946

    Monroe signed a contract with an acting agency in June 1946. After an unsuccessful interview at Paramount Pictures, she was given a screen-test by Ben Lyon, a 20th Century-Fox executive. Head executive Darryl F. Zanuck was unenthusiastic about it, but he was persuaded to give her a standard six-month contract to avoid her being signed by rival studio RKO Pictures, and Monroe's contract began in August. On July 23, 1946 she signed a contract with Twentieth Century-Fox Studios. (POF)


  • New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
    Saturday Jul 6, 1946
    George W. Bush

    Birth

    New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
    Saturday Jul 6, 1946

    George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946, at Yale–New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut.


  • U.S.
    Friday Sep 13, 1946
    Marilyn Monroe

    1st Divorce

    U.S.
    Friday Sep 13, 1946

    In September 1946, she divorced Dougherty, who was against her having a career.


  • U.S.
    Monday Sep 30, 1946
    DC Comics

    National Periodical Publications

    U.S.
    Monday Sep 30, 1946

    National Comics Publications absorbed an affiliated concern, Max Gaines' and Liebowitz' All-American Publications. In the same year Gaines let Liebowitz buy him out, and kept only Picture Stories from the Bible as the foundation of his own new company, EC Comics. At that point, "Liebowitz promptly orchestrated the merger of All-American and Detective Comics into National Comics... Next he took charge of organizing National Comics, [the self-distributorship] Independent News, and their affiliated firms into a single corporate entity, National Periodical Publications".


  • New York, U.S.
    Monday Sep 30, 1946
    DC Comics

    National Comics Publications

    New York, U.S.
    Monday Sep 30, 1946

    National Allied Publications soon merged with Detective Comics, Inc., forming National Comics Publications on September 30, 1946.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Saturday Oct 12, 1946
    Louis Armstrong

    A Guest artist with Lionel Hampton's band

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Saturday Oct 12, 1946

    Armstrong was featured as a guest artist with Lionel Hampton's band at the famed second Cavalcade of Jazz concert held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles which was produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. on October 12, 1946.


  • San Francisco, California, U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 5, 1946
    Richard Nixon

    Winning In The 1946 California's 12th congressional district elections

    San Francisco, California, U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 5, 1946

    In 1945, Republicans in California's 12th congressional district were frustrated by their inability to defeat Democratic Congressman Jerry Voorhis and sought a consensus candidate who would run a strong campaign against him. They formed a "Committee of 100" to decide on a candidate hoping to avoid internal dissensions which had previously led to Voorhis victories. After the committee failed to attract higher-profile candidates Herman Perry, Whittier's Bank of America branch manager, suggested Nixon, a family friend with whom he had served on the Whittier College Board of Trustees before the war. Perry wrote to Nixon in Baltimore. After a night of excited talk between the Nixons, the naval officer responded to Perry with enthusiasm. Nixon flew to California and was selected by the committee. When he left the Navy at the start of 1946, Nixon and his wife returned to Whittier, where Nixon began a year of intensive campaigning. He contended that Voorhis had been ineffective as a congressman and suggested that Voorhis's endorsement by a group linked to communists meant that Voorhis must have radical views. Nixon won the election, receiving 65,586 votes to Voorhis's 49,994.


  • U.S.
    1946
    Xerox

    Developing the commercial product

    U.S.
    1946

    Joseph C. Wilson, credited as the "founder of Xerox", took over Haloid from his father. He saw the promise of Carlson's invention and, in 1946, signed an agreement to develop it as a commercial product. Wilson remained as President/CEO of Xerox until 1967 and served as Chairman until his death in 1971.


  • Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
    Sunday Nov 24, 1946
    Ted Bundy

    Birth

    Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
    Sunday Nov 24, 1946

    Ted Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell on November 24, 1946, to Eleanor Louise Cowell (1924–2012; known as Louise) at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont. His birth certificate is said to assign paternity to a salesman and Air Force veteran named Lloyd Marshall, though other accounts state his father is listed as "Unknown". Louise claimed she had been seduced by an old-money war veteran named Jack Worthington, and the King County Sheriff's Office has him listed as the father in their files. Some family members have expressed suspicions that Bundy might have been fathered by Louise's own violent, abusive father, Samuel Cowell, but no material evidence has ever been cited to support this.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    1946
    World Bank

    First President of the World Bank Group

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    1946

    Eugene Meyer served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933 and was the first President of the World Bank Group.


  • Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Dec, 1946
    Jimmy Hoffa

    President of Local 299

    Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Dec, 1946

    Although he never actually worked as a truck driver, Hoffa became president of Local 299 in December 1946.


  • Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
    Wednesday Dec 18, 1946
    Steven Spielberg

    Born

    Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
    Wednesday Dec 18, 1946

    Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio.


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