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Vintage (1946-69)
Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. (the link is to a full 1946 calendar) more...
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Events
January
January 2 - Unable to resume his rule over Albania after World War II, King Zog abdicates but retains his claim to the throne.;
January 4 - Theodore Schurch becomes the last person to be executed for offences committed under the Treachery Act of 1940;
January 7 - Allies recognize Austrian republic with 1937 borders - the country is divided into four occupation zones;
January 10
First meeting of the United Nations;
Project Diana bounces Radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the earth and the moon and proving that the communication was possible between the earth and outer space, effectively opening the space age.;
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January 11
Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as prime minister.;
Porfirio Barba-Jacob's ashes go back to Colombia.;
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January 16 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as a head of a French provisional government;
January 17
The UN Security Council holds its first session;
Senator Dennis Chavez (D-NM) calls for a vote on an FEPC bill which called for the end to discrimination in the work place. A filibuster prevents it from passing.;
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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.;
January 25 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.;
January 28 - Bluenose founders on a Haitian reef.;
January 29 - Central Intelligence Group established, CIA established in 1947;
January 31 - Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).;
February
February 1 - Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.;
February 2 - Kingdom of Hungary becomes a republic.;
February 14
The Bank of England nationalized;
ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania;
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February 15 - Canada indicts 22 communist agents.;
February 20 - Explosion kills more than 400 coal miners in West Germany.;
February 24 - Juan Peron elected president of Argentina;
February 28 - In Philadelphia, strikers of General Electric and police clash;
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