Significant Events
- Jan 10 UN General Assembly meets for 1st time in London
- Jan 17 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting
- Jan 22 US President Harry Truman sets up the Central Intelligence Agency
- Feb 24 General Juan Perón first elected President of Argentina
- Mar 2 Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam
- Mar 5 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe
- Mar 28 Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
- May 22 First US rocket (WAC Corporal) to reach edge of space fired from White Sands Missile Range New Mexico
- Aug 16 Direct Action Day: Widespread riots erupt in Calcutta between Muslims and Hindus over whether Pakistan should be a separate state, killing over 4,000 and leaving 100,000 homeless
- Sep 30 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg
1946 in Film & TV
- Jul 25 At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team
- Aug 23 "The Big Sleep" directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart (Philip Marlowe) and Lauren Bacall first premieres
- Dec 20 Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life" film premieres in New York, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore
1946 in Music
- Oct 18 Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony premieres
- Dec 11 Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label
1946 in Sport
- Nov 11 New York Knicks' 1st game at Madison Square Garden, lose 78-68 to Chicago Stags
Did You Know?
World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 116 of 156 captured U-boats
On February 11, 1946
World Leaders in 1946
Clement Attlee
British Prime Minister
Harry Truman
33rd US President
Joseph Stalin
Soviet General Secretary
Famous People in 1946
Fredric March
Oscar for Best Actor
James F. Byrnes
Time Person
of the Year
Olivia de Havilland
Oscar for Best Actress
Cher 
Bill Clinton
Donald Trump
Freddie Mercury
George W. Bush
Reggie JacksonFamous Weddings
- Jan 17 Actor John Wayne (38) weds actress Esperanza Baur in Long Beach, California
- Feb 10 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum
- Feb 18 MLB baseball player Hank Greenberg (35) weds heiress Caral Gimbel in Sea Island, Georgia
- Mar 14 American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries Mary Welsh
- Mar 30 Actress Doris Day (23) weds saxophonist George Weidler
Famous Divorces
- Aug 8 Esta Krakower divorces mobster Bugsy Siegel (40) after 17 years of marriage
Gerhart Hauptmann
H. G. Wells
Hermann Goering
Joachim von Ribbentrop
John Logie Baird
Walter Johnson