1946 in History (Part 3)

Events in History

Events 201 - 261 of 261

• Oct 10 Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer" premieres in Zurich
• Oct 14 Netherland & Indonesia sign cease fire

• Oct 22 2 British ships sink near Albania
• Oct 23 UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC-Flushing Meadows)
• Oct 24 Netherlands & Indonesia sign cease fire
• Oct 24 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket, launched from Whites Sands US, takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
• Oct 27 Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%)
• Oct 28 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
• Nov 1 Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University
• Nov 1 West German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) created
• Nov 1 Karol Wojtyla is ordained to Catholic priesthood

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

• 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 21 Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria
• Nov 21 Harry Truman becomes 1st US President to travel in a submerged sub
• Nov 23 French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000
• Nov 23 The Workers Party of South Korea is founded

• Nov 28 French Fourth Republic government led by Georges Bidault resigns
• Nov 28 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert sentenced to death
• Nov 29 Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities

• Dec 5 US President Harry Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
• Dec 7 Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
• Dec 8 US Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight

• Dec 11 Spain suspended from UN
• Dec 11 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
• Dec 12 Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38
• Dec 12 'Tide' detergent introduced

• Dec 13 Léon Blum elected French premier
• Dec 14 Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN
• Dec 14 UN General Assembly votes to establish UN HQs in New York City

• Dec 16 Thailand joins the United Nations
• Dec 17 US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico
• Dec 18 TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run in US

• Dec 21 Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086
• Dec 21 Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show" premieres in Indianapolis
• Dec 23 Belgian Council of State forms
• Dec 23 Highest ridership in NYC subway history (8.8 million passengers)
• Dec 23 University of Tennessee refuses to play Duquesne University after they suggested they may use a black player in their basketball game
• Dec 24 US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor Nazis" amnesty
• Dec 24 French Fourth Republic is founded
• Dec 25 Constitution accepted in Taiwan
• Dec 26 Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
• Dec 31 French troops leave Lebanon
• Dec 31 US President Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II

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Birthdays in History

Birthdays 201 - 295 of 295

• Sep 2 Marty Grebb, rocker (Buckinghams), born in Chicago, Illinois
• Sep 3 Peter Morris, English historian of France (d. 1997)
• Sep 6 Bryan D. O'Connor, U.S. Marine Corps colonel and astronaut (STS 61B, STS 40), born in Orange, California
• Sep 9 Pete Gavin, English rocker (Heads Hands & Feet), born in London
• Sep 10 Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician, born in Villeneuve-le-Roi, France
• Sep 14 Jim Angle, American journalist and television reporter, born in Fort Worth, Texas
• Sep 15 Oliver Stone, American director (Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon), born in NYC, New York
• Sep 15 Howard Waldrop, American sci-fi author
• Sep 16 John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant, British physician (Warden of Green College Oxford) (d. 2016)
• Sep 16 Mike Reynolds, Australian politician (Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland 2006-09), born in Manly, New South Wales
• Sep 17 Michael Jack, British Conservative Party politician and minister of state-home office, born in Folkestone, Kent, England
• Sep 18 Alan "Bam" King, English rocker, born in Muswell Hill, North London
• Sep 21 Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councilor
• Sep 22 Daniel E "Dan" Lungren, (Rep-R-California, 1979-88)
• Sep 22 Dan Baker, American public address announcer
• Sep 23 Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
• Sep 26 Andrea Dworkin, American radical feminist (Pornography: Men Possessing Women), born in Camden, New Jersey (d. 2005)
• Sep 26 Christine Todd Whitman, American politician (50th Governor of New Jersey), born in NYC, New York
• Sep 26 Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician, born in Chokpur, Taplejung, Nepal
• Sep 27 Peter H Kostmayer, (Rep-D-PA, 1977-81, 83- )
• Sep 27 Ronald Fox, senior partner (Fox Williams)
• Sep 27 T.C. Cannon, Kiowa/Caddo artist (d. 1978)
• Sep 30 Claude Vorilhon, founder of Raelism, a ufo religion
• Sep 30 William Thurston, Washington, mathematician (Fields Medal, 1982), (d. 2012)
• Oct 4 Chuck Hagel, American politician
• Oct 5 Zahida Hina, Pakistani columnist, born in Sahasram, Bihar, British India
• Oct 6 Eddie Villanueva, JIL Spiritual Director, Owner of ZOE Broadcasting Network
• Oct 6 Lloyd Doggett, American attorney and politician (US Representative, Democrat, Texas), born in Austin, Texas
• Oct 7 Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei, born in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
• Oct 7 Anita Shreve, American writer (Weight of Water, Past the Island; Drifting), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2018)
• Oct 8 Dennis Kucinich, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio), born in Cleveland, Ohio
• Oct 10 Franco Malerba, Italian astronaut (STS 46), born in Genoa, Italy
• Oct 10 Mildred Grieveson, English writer (Leopard in the Snow), born in England
• Oct 10 Naoto Kan, Japanese politician (61st Prime Minister of Japan), born in Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan
• Oct 11 Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 2011)
• Oct 13 Edwina Currie, British politician (C), born in Liverpool
• Oct 14 Craig Venter, American biotechnologist and geneticist (involved with the first draft sequence of the human genome), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
• Oct 15 Stewart Stevenson, Scottish National Party politician, born in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Oct 17 Sir Cameron Mackintosh, British stage producer
• Oct 17 Adam Michnik, Polish activist
• Oct 17 Drusilla Modjeska, Australian writer and editor
• Oct 19 Philip Pullman, English writer
• Oct 20 Elfriede Jelinek, writer
• Oct 22 Richard Loncraine, director (Missionary, Deep Cover, Bellman & True)
• Oct 22 Kelvin MacKenzie, British media tycoon
• Oct 23 Mel Martinez, American politician
• Oct 27 Leslie Byrne, American politician (Rep-D-Virginia), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
• Oct 27 Steven R. Nagel, American astronaut, USAF (STS 51-G, 61-A, 37, 55), born in Canton, Illinois (d. 2014)
• Oct 27 Terry J. Hart, American astronaut (STS 41C), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Oct 28 John Hewson, Australian politician
• Oct 29 Strinivasa Moodley, South African anti-apartheid activist, born in Durban, Natal
• Oct 30 Robert L. "Hoot" Gibson, American aviator, aeronautical engineer and astronaut (STS 41B,61C,27,47,71), born in Cooperstown, New York
• Nov 1 Yuko Shimizu, Japanese illustrator (creator of Hello Kitty), born in Kyoto, Japan
• Nov 4 Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer, born in Floral Park, New York (d. 1989)
• Nov 4 Laura Bush, U.S. First Lady (2001-09), born in Midland, Texas
• 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 L Rush, (Rep-D-Illinois)

• Nov 24 Penelope Jones Halsall (aka: Caroline Courtney, Melinda Wright, Lydia Hitchcock, Penny Jordan, Annie Groves)
• 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 Joe Dante, American film director (Matinee; Twilight Zone:The Movie; Police Squad; Gremlins), born in Morristown, New Jersey
• Nov 28 Susan Spencer, American correspondent (48 Hours) [1946 approx], born in Memphis Tennessee
• Nov 29 Silvio Rodríguez, Cuban poet
• Nov 30 Marina Abramović, Serbian American performance artist, born in Belgrade, Serbia

• Dec 5 Andy Kim [Andrew Joachim], Canadian rocker (Baby, I Love You), born in Montreal, Quebec
• Dec 8 Graham Knight, Scottish musician (Marmalade)
• Dec 9 Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician (President of the Indian National Congress 1998-2017), born in Lusiana, Veneto, Italy
• Dec 10 Walter Orange, American rocker (Commodores-Too Hot to Trot), born in Florida
• Dec 10 Thomas Lux, American poet (Split Horizon), born in Northampton, Massachusetts (d. 2017)
• Dec 12 George Santo Pietro, husband of Vanna White
• Dec 16 Fred Borgman, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA), born in Aalsmeer, Netherlands (d. 1996)
• Dec 17 Simon Bates, British disk jockey and radio presenter (BBC Radio 1, Classic FM), born in Birmingham, England
• Dec 18 Stephen (Steve) Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist, born in Ginsberg Township (d. 1977)

• Dec 22 Pamela Courson, American woman and long-term companion of Jim Morrison, born in Weed, California (d. 1974)
• Dec 23 John Sullivan, English television scriptwriter, born in Balham, London (d. 2011)
• Dec 24 Brenda Howard, American bisexual activist, born in The Bronx, New York City (d. 2005)

• Dec 26 Gordon Edwards, rocker
• Dec 28 Tim Johnson, American politician, senior senator from South Dakota
• Dec 29 Paul Trible, American attorney & politician (Sen-R-Va), born in Baltimore, Maryland
• Dec 31 Pius Ncube, Zimbabwean human rights advocate, born in Filabusi, Zimbabwe

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