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  • Haiphong, Vietnam
    1946
    First Indochina War

    The French landed a military force

    Haiphong, Vietnam
    1946

    In early 1946, the French landed a military force at Haiphong, and negotiations took place about the future for Vietnam as a state within the French Union. Fighting broke out in Haiphong between the Việt Minh government and the French over a conflict of interest in import duty at the port.




  • Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    1946
    Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

    The Governor of The Eastern Region of Abu Dhabi

    Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    1946

    Zayed was appointed the governor of the Eastern Region of Abu Dhabi in 1946, and was based in the Muwaiji fort in Al Ain. At this time, the area was poor and prone to outbreaks of disease. When parties from Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) began exploring for oil in the area, Zayed assisted them.




  • Basel, Switzerland
    1946
    Shimon Peres

    Mapai delegation

    Basel, Switzerland
    1946

    In 1946, Peres and Moshe Dayan were chosen as the two youth delegates in the Mapai delegation to the Zionist Congress in Basel.




  • 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.




  • Hungary
    1946
    Hungarian Revolution of 1956

    The post-war Hungarian Economy Suffered From Multiple Challenges

    Hungary
    1946

    The post-war Hungarian economy suffered from multiple challenges. Hungary agreed to pay war reparations approximating US$300 million to the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia and to support Soviet garrisons. The Hungarian National Bank in 1946 estimated the cost of reparations as "between 19 and 22 per cent of the annual national income".




  • Hungary
    1946
    Hungarian Revolution of 1956

    The Hungarian Currency Experienced Marked Depreciation

    Hungary
    1946

    In 1946, the Hungarian currency experienced marked depreciation, resulting in the highest historic rates of hyperinflation known. Hungary's participation in the Soviet-sponsored COMECON (Council of Mutual Economic Assistance) prevented it from trading with the West or receiving Marshall Plan aid.


  • Vietnam
    1946
    Ho Chi Minh

    The Democratic Republic of Vietnam government found that war was Inevitable

    Vietnam
    1946

    In the final days of 1946, after a year of diplomatic failure and many concessions in agreements, such as the Dalat and Fontainebleau conferences, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam government found that war was inevitable.


  • London, England
    1946
    Alan Turing

    Turing was appointed an Officer of The Order of The British Empire

    London, England
    1946

    In 1946, Turing was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by King George VI for his wartime services, but his work remained secret for many years.


  • 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.


  • United Kingdom
    Jan, 1946
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Philip returned to the United Kingdom

    United Kingdom
    Jan, 1946

    Philip returned to the United Kingdom on the Whelp in January 1946 and was posted as an instructor at HMS Royal Arthur, the Petty Officers' School in Corsham, Wiltshire.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Thursday Jan 10, 1946
    United Nations

    First meetings of the General Assembly

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Thursday Jan 10, 1946

    The first meetings of the General Assembly, with 51 nations represented, and the Security Council took place in Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, London beginning on 10 January 1946. Debates began at once covering topical issues including the presence of Russian troops in Iranian Azerbaijan, Great Britain's forces in Greece and within days the first veto was cast.


  • France
    1946
    Edward VIII

    Edward returned to France

    France
    1946

    At the end of the war, the couple returned to France and spent the remainder of their lives essentially in retirement as the Duke never held another official role. Correspondence between the Duke and Kenneth de Courcy, dated between 1946 and 1949, emerged in a US library in 2009.


  • 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 ...".


  • France
    Sunday Jan 20, 1946
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle abruptly resigned

    France
    Sunday Jan 20, 1946

    Barely two months after forming the new government, de Gaulle abruptly resigned on 20 January 1946.


  • Vietnam
    Feb, 1946
    First Indochina War

    A Peace agreement

    Vietnam
    Feb, 1946

    Chiang Kai-shek threatened the French with war in response to manoeuvering by the French and Hồ Chí Minh against each other, forcing them to come to a peace agreement. In February 1946, he also forced the French to surrender and renounce all of their concessions and ports in China, such as Shanghai, in exchange for withdrawing from northern Indochina and allowing French troops to reoccupy the region starting in March 1946.


  • 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.


  • Hampton, London, England
    Tuesday Feb 19, 1946
    Alan Turing

    Presenting The First Detailed Design of a Stored-Program Computer

    Hampton, London, England
    Tuesday Feb 19, 1946

    Turing presented a paper on 19 February 1946, which was the first detailed design of a stored-program computer.


  • Naples, Italy
    Thursday Feb 28, 1946
    Lucky Luciano

    Arrived in Naples

    Naples, Italy
    Thursday Feb 28, 1946

    This was the last time he would see the US. On February 28, after a 17-day voyage, Luciano's ship arrived in Naples. On arrival, Luciano told reporters he would probably reside in Sicily.


  • China
    Mar, 1946
    Chinese Civil War

    The Soviet Red Army under the command of Marshal Rodion Malinovsky continued to delay pulling out of Manchuria

    China
    Mar, 1946

    In March 1946, despite repeated requests from Chiang, the Soviet Red Army under the command of Marshal Rodion Malinovsky continued to delay pulling out of Manchuria, while Malinovsky secretly told the CPC forces to move in behind them, which led to full-scale war for the control of the Northeast.


  • 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.


  • Vietnam
    Wednesday Mar 6, 1946
    Ho Chi Minh

    Recognizing Vietnam as an autonomous State

    Vietnam
    Wednesday Mar 6, 1946

    When Chiang forced the French to give the French concessions in Shanghai back to China in exchange for withdrawing from northern Indochina, he had no choice but to sign an agreement with France on 6 March 1946 in which Vietnam would be recognized as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. The agreement soon broke down.


  • 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.


  • China
    Wednesday Mar 27, 1946
    Chinese Civil War

    Soviet diplomats requested a joint venture of industrial development with the Nationalist Party in Manchuria

    China
    Wednesday Mar 27, 1946

    Prior to giving control to Communist leaders, on March 27 Soviet diplomats requested a joint venture of industrial development with the Nationalist Party in Manchuria.


  • England, United Kingdom
    Monday Apr 15, 1946
    Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    Margaret was confirmed into the Church of England

    England, United Kingdom
    Monday Apr 15, 1946

    On 15 April 1946, Margaret was confirmed into the Church of England.


  • Geneva, Switzerland
    Thursday Apr 18, 1946
    United Nations

    Final meeting of the League of Nations

    Geneva, Switzerland
    Thursday Apr 18, 1946

    The final meeting of the League of Nations took place on 18 April 1946 in Geneva.


  • East Sussex, England
    Sunday Apr 21, 1946
    John Maynard Keynes

    Death

    East Sussex, England
    Sunday Apr 21, 1946

    Keynes died of a heart attack at Tilton, his farmhouse home near Firle, East Sussex, England, on 21 April 1946, at the age of 62.


  • Merano, Italy
    Friday Apr 26, 1946
    Martin Bormann

    Gerda Bormann's Death

    Merano, Italy
    Friday Apr 26, 1946

    Gerda Bormann died of cancer on 26 April 1946, in Merano, Italy. Bormann's children survived the war, and were cared for in foster homes.


  • 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.


  • Tokyo, Japan
    Tuesday May 7, 1946
    Sony Corporation

    Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo

    Tokyo, Japan
    Tuesday May 7, 1946

    On 7 May 1946, Ibuka was joined by Akio Morita to establish a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation).The company built Japan's first tape recorder, called the Type-G. In 1958, the company changed its name to "Sony".


  • Tokyo, Japan
    Tuesday May 7, 1946
    Sony Corporation

    Founding

    Tokyo, Japan
    Tuesday May 7, 1946

    Sony began in the wake of World War II. In 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in a department store building in Tokyo. The company started with a capital of ¥190,000 and a total of eight employees.


  • Tokyo, Japan
    Tuesday May 7, 1946
    Akio Morita

    Founding Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (SONY)

    Tokyo, Japan
    Tuesday May 7, 1946

    On May 7, 1946, Ibuka founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, the forerunner of Sony Corporation) with about 20 employees and initial capital of ¥190,000. Ibuka was 38 years old. Morita, 25 years old joined Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha shortly after its inception, with Morita's family investing in Sony during the early period and being the largest shareholder.


  • 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.


  • Manatuto, Timor-Leste
    Thursday Jun 20, 1946
    Xanana Gusmão

    Birth

    Manatuto, Timor-Leste
    Thursday Jun 20, 1946

    Gusmão was born in Manatuto, in what was then Portuguese Timor, to parents of mixed Portuguese-Timorese ancestry, both of whom were school teachers.


  • China
    Wednesday Jun 26, 1946
    Chinese Civil War

    The truce fell apart in June 1946 when full-scale war between CPC and KMT forces broke out

    China
    Wednesday Jun 26, 1946

    The truce fell apart in June 1946 when full-scale war between CPC and KMT forces broke out on June 26. China then entered a state of civil war that lasted more than three years.


  • 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)


  • Yugoslavia
    Jul, 1946
    Josip Broz Tito

    Yugoslav intelligence was charged with imprisoning and bringing to trial large numbers of Nazi collaborators

    Yugoslavia
    Jul, 1946

    Yugoslav intelligence was charged with imprisoning and bringing to trial large numbers of Nazi collaborators; controversially, this included Catholic clergymen due to the widespread involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustaša regime. Draža Mihailović was found guilty of collaboration, high treason, and war crimes and was subsequently executed by firing squad on July 1946.


  • 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.


  • China
    Saturday Jul 20, 1946
    Chinese Civil War

    Large-scale assault on Communist territory

    China
    Saturday Jul 20, 1946

    On 20 July 1946, Chiang Kai-shek launched a large-scale assault on Communist territory in North China with 113 brigades (a total of 1.6 million troops).


  • United Kingdom
    Aug, 1946
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

    Philip asked the King for his daughter's hand in marriage

    United Kingdom
    Aug, 1946

    Eventually, in the summer of 1946, Philip asked the King for his daughter's hand in marriage. The King granted his request, provided that any formal engagement be delayed until Elizabeth's 21st birthday the following April.


  • Stone Town, Zanzibar (Present Day Part of Tanzania)
    Thursday Sep 5, 1946
    Freddie Mercury

    Birth

    Stone Town, Zanzibar (Present Day Part of Tanzania)
    Thursday Sep 5, 1946

    Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Stone Town in the British protectorate of Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania) on 5 September 1946.


  • Loreto convent, Darjeeling, India
    Tuesday Sep 10, 1946
    Mother Teresa

    The call within the call

    Loreto convent, Darjeeling, India
    Tuesday Sep 10, 1946

    On 10 September 1946, Teresa experienced what she later described as "the call within the call" when she travelled by train to the Loreto convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for her annual retreat.


  • 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.


  • Sweden and U.S.
    1946
    Nobel Prize

    Exempted from taxes

    Sweden and U.S.
    1946

    The Nobel Foundation is exempt from all taxes in Sweden (since 1946) and from investment taxes in the United States (since 1953).


  • 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.


  • 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".


  • 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.


  • Nuremberg, Germany
    Tuesday Oct 15, 1946
    Martin Bormann

    Bormann Was Sentenced To Death by Hanging

    Nuremberg, Germany
    Tuesday Oct 15, 1946

    On 15 October 1946 he was sentenced to death by hanging, with the provision that if he were later found alive, any new facts brought to light at that time could be taken into consideration to reduce the sentence or overturn it.


  • Cuba
    Tuesday Oct 29, 1946
    Lucky Luciano

    To latin America

    Cuba
    Tuesday Oct 29, 1946

    In October 1946, Luciano secretly moved to Havana, Cuba. Luciano first took a freighter from Naples to Caracas, Venezuela, then flew to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He then flew to Mexico City and doubled back to Caracas, where he took a private plane to Camaguey, Cuba, finally arriving on October 29. Luciano was then driven to Havana, where he moved into an estate in the Miramar section of the city. His objective was to be closer to the US so that he could resume control over American Mafia operations and eventually return home.


  • Karkow, Poland
    Friday Nov 1, 1946
    Pope John Paul II

    A Priest

    Karkow, Poland
    Friday Nov 1, 1946

    After finishing his studies at the seminary in Kraków, Wojtyła was ordained as a priest on All Saints' Day, 1 November 1946, by the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal Sapieha.


  • 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.


  • Lausanne, Switzerland
    1946
    Martial arts

    International Boxing Association was established

    Lausanne, Switzerland
    1946

    The International Boxing Association was established in 1946.


  • Haiphong, Vietnam
    Saturday Nov 23, 1946
    First Indochina War

    The French fleet began a naval bombardment of the Vietnamese sections of Haiphong

    Haiphong, Vietnam
    Saturday Nov 23, 1946

    On November 23, 1946, the French fleet began a naval bombardment of the Vietnamese sections of Haiphong that killed over 6,000 Vietnamese civilians in one afternoon. The Việt Minh quickly agreed to a cease-fire and left the cities. This is known as the Haiphong incident.


  • Japan
    Saturday Nov 23, 1946
    Thanksgiving

    Labor Thanksgiving Day

    Japan
    Saturday Nov 23, 1946

    Labor Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in Japan. It takes place annually on November 23. The law establishing the holiday, which was adopted during the American occupation after World War II, cites it as an occasion for commemorating labor and production and giving one another thanks. It has roots in the ancient Shinto harvest ceremony (Niiname-sai).


  • Haiphong, Vietnam
    Saturday Nov 23, 1946
    Ho Chi Minh

    Haiphong Incident

    Haiphong, Vietnam
    Saturday Nov 23, 1946

    The bombardment of Haiphong by French forces at Hanoi only strengthened the belief that France had no intention of allowing an autonomous, independent state in Vietnam. The bombardment of Haiphong reportedly killed more than 6000 Vietnamese civilians. French forces marched into Hanoi, now the capital city of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.


  • 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.


  • Rome, Italy
    Tuesday Nov 26, 1946
    Pope John Paul II

    Rome's Pontifical International Athenaeum Angelicum

    Rome, Italy
    Tuesday Nov 26, 1946

    Sapieha sent Wojtyła to Rome's Pontifical International Athenaeum Angelicum, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, to study under the French Dominican Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange beginning on 26 November 1946.


  • 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.


  • Vietnam
    Thursday Dec 19, 1946
    First Indochina War

    All-out war broke out

    Vietnam
    Thursday Dec 19, 1946

    After over one year of latent conflict, all-out war broke out in December 1946 between French and Việt Minh forces as Hồ Chí Minh and his government went underground.


  • Vietnam
    Thursday Dec 19, 1946
    Ho Chi Minh

    Ho Chi Minh declared war against The French Union

    Vietnam
    Thursday Dec 19, 1946

    On 19 December 1946, after the Haiphong incident, Ho Chi Minh declared war against the French Union, marking the beginning of the Indochina War.


  • Havana, Cuba
    Friday Dec 20, 1946
    Lucky Luciano

    The three topics under discussion

    Havana, Cuba
    Friday Dec 20, 1946

    In 1946, Lansky called a meeting of the heads of the major crime families in Havana that December, dubbed the Havana Conference. The ostensible reason was to see singer Frank Sinatra perform. However, the real reason was to discuss mob business with Luciano in attendance. The three topics under discussion were: the heroin trade, Cuban gambling, and what to do about Siegel and his floundering Flamingo Hotel project in Las Vegas.


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