August 1946 in History

Events in History

Aug 1 US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

Aug 7 1st US commemorative coin of an African American, Booker T. Washington (half dollar)

Aug 8 India agrees to give Bhutan 32 sq miles
Aug 8 First flight of the Convair B-36.
Aug 13 Britain diverts illegal emmigrants bound for Palestine to Cyprus
Aug 15 Dumont TV Network (WABD NY) is launched in the US
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

Aug 17 George Orwell publishes "Animal Farm" in the United Kingdom

Aug 23 Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.

Aug 1 Rick Boucher, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia), born in Abingdon, Virginia
Aug 1 Richard O. Covey, American astronaut (STS 51I, 26, 38, 61) and USAF officer, born in Fayetteville, Arkansas
Aug 1 Tom Loeffler, American politician (member of the United States House of Representatives from central Texas), born in Fredericksburg, Texas
Aug 1 Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist (Telethon Institute for Child Health Research), born in Little Bay, Sydney, Australia
Aug 3 Jack Straw, British politician (Member of Parliament for Blackburn), born in Buckhurst Hill, Essex
Aug 5 Ron Silliman, American poet (The Alphabet), born in Pasco,Washington
Aug 6 Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean politician
Aug 7 Ed Seykota, American commodities and futures trader
Aug 8 Robin M Tallon, (Rep-D-SC, 1983- )
Aug 8 James W. Lewis, American convicted extortionist
Aug 11 Marilyn Vos Savant, writer/world's highest IQ (228), born in St Louis, Missouri

Aug 13 Janet Yellen, American economist (Chair of US Federal Reserve 2014-18), born in Brooklyn, New York

Aug 14 Alexander Curly [Harm Breemer], Dutch artist, born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 2012)
Aug 14 Marga van Praag, Dutch radio hostess, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Aug 15 Kathryn Whitmire, American accountant and politician (4 time Mayor-Houston), born in Houston, Texas
Aug 15 Jean-Claude Arnault, French Swedish photographer involved in Nobel Prize scandal, born in Marseille, France
Aug 16 Massoud Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician
Aug 17 Patrick Manning, Trinidad and Tobago politician, Prime Minister (1991-95, 2001-10), born in San Fernando (d. 2016)
Aug 19 Charles F Bolden Jr, astronaut (STS 61C, 31, 45, 60), born in Columbia, South Carolina

Aug 19 Bill Clinton [William Jefferson], 42nd US President (Democrat, 1993-2001), born in Hope, Arkansas

Aug 20 N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian industrialist and co-founder (Infosys), born in Shidlaghatta, Kolar district, India
Aug 22 Felix Meurders, Dutch radio host, born in Maastricht, Netherlands
Aug 24 Richard N. Richards, American naval officer and astronaut (STS 28, 41, 50, 64), born in Key West, Florida
Aug 25 Larry LaRocco, American politician (Rep-D-Idaho), born in Los Angeles, California
Aug 25 Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and children's books author (Tickle Day: Poems from Father Goose), born in Bayside, New York
Aug 30 Anne-Marie of Greece, Danish princess and daughter of Frederik IX, born in Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark
Aug 31 Jerome Corsi, American writer and conspiracy theorist, born in East Cleveland, Ohio

Aug 10 Author and founder of the Scientology cult L. Ron Hubbard (35) weds Sara Northrup Hollister

Aug 8 Esta Krakower divorces mobster Bugsy Siegel (40) after 17 years of marriage

Aug 1 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45
Aug 5 Wilhelm Marx, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (1923-25, 1926-28), dies at 83

Aug 13 H. G. Wells, English sci-fi author (The War of the Worlds, Time Machine), dies at 79

Aug 16 Herman Harrell Horne, American philosopher (idealism), dies at 71
Aug 29 J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed
Aug 30 Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
Aug 31 Harley Granville-Barker, English dramatist, producer (The Voysey Inheritance) and critic, dies at 68