November 1946 in History

Events in History

Nov 3 Emperor Hirohito proclaims a new Japanese constitution

Nov 4 United Nations Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) formed

Nov 5 John F. Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) elected to US House of Representatives

Nov 6 Karol Wojtyla (future Pope John Paul II) holds his first Mass as newly ordained Catholic priest in Wawel Cathedral's crypt

Nov 8 Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse" premieres in Paris

Nov 9 US President Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze

Nov 10 Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election
Nov 12 A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows
Nov 13 First artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, Massachusetts
Nov 14 Dutch Dakota flight to Schiphol crashes, kills 11
Nov 15 House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley

Nov 20 Lillian Hellman's play "Another Part of the Forest" premieres in NYC

Nov 27 Peter Fraser's Labour government wins a second term in New Zealand's general elections

Nov 1 Yuko Shimizu, Japanese illustrator (creator of Hello Kitty), born in Kyoto, Japan
Nov 4 Laura Bush, U.S. First Lady (2001-09), born in Midland, Texas
Nov 4 Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer, born in Floral Park, New York (d. 1989)
Nov 5 Patricia K Kuhl, speech & hearing scientist
Nov 6 Fred Penner, Canadian children's entertainer, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Nov 10 David Stockman, American politician and Reagan's ex-budget director, born in Fort Hood, Texas
Nov 10 Jack Ketchum [Dallas William Mayr], American horror fiction author (Off Season, Red, The Woman), born in Livingston, New Jersey (d. 2018)
Nov 11 Corrine Brown, American politician convicted on corruption charges (Rep-D-Florida 1993-2017), born in Jacksonville, Florida
Nov 11 Vladimir Alekseyevich Soloviyov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-10, T-15, TM-10), born in Moscow, Soviet Union
Nov 17 Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
Nov 18 Alan Dean Foster, American sci-fi author (Midworld, Flinx in Flux)
Nov 20 Patriarch Kirill [Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev] Russian Orthodox church leader (2009-), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union
Nov 22 Hans Kombrink, sociologist/Dutch undersecretary of Finance (PvdA)
Nov 23 Bobby Rush, American politician (Rep-D-Illinois 1993-), born in Albany, Georgia
Nov 24 Penelope Jones Halsall (aka: Caroline Courtney, Melinda Wright, Lydia Hitchcock, Penny Jordan, Annie Groves)

Nov 24 American serial killer of up to 100 women during the 1970s, born in Burlington, Vermont

Nov 26 Angus Suttie, English potter and teacher of art ceramics, born in Tealing, Scotland (d. 1993)
Nov 27 Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, 2nd President of Djibouti (1999-present), born in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Nov 28 Susan Spencer, American correspondent (48 Hours) [1946 approx], born in Memphis Tennessee
Nov 30 Marina Abramović, Serbian American performance artist, born in Belgrade, Serbia

Nov 14 Herman de Man [Salomon Herman Hamburger], Dutch writer (The Rising Waters), dies in an airplane crash at 48
Nov 22 Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (Reich Minister of Justice 1942-45), dies at 57
Nov 23 Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered