1946 Events

1946 Agatha Christie publishes The Hollow
On the morning that he and his downtrodden wife, Gerda, are due to travel down to the country to weekend with friends, John Christow allows his little daughter to tell his fortune with ca...
1946 'All The King's Men' is Published
The summer fiction doldrums are over. An exciting new novel is published today. It isn't a great novel or a completely finished work of art. It is as bumpy and uneven as a corduroy road, ...
1946 "Green For Danger" Is Released
Green for Danger is a 1946 thriller film, based on the popular 1944 detective novel by Christianna Brand. The book Green for Danger was praised for its clever plot, interesting charact...
1946 Herman Hesse is Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1946 was awarded to Hermann Hesse "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals an...
1946 Marilyn Monroe Goes Blonde
On that day in 1946, a timid Norma Jeane walked into the salon and asked if something could be done to make her look better for her shampoo shoot that evening. Tint technician Sylvia Barn...
1946 Sony Corporation Is Founded
Sony Corporation (commonly referred to as Sony) (Japanese: ソニー株式会社, Sonī Kabushiki-gaisha) is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of th...
1946 "The Overlanders" Is Released
The Overlanders is a 1946 Australian film about drovers droving a large herd of cattle 1600 miles overland from Wyndham in Western Australia through the Northern Territory outback of Aust...
1946 The Second Chicago School
Following the fallow years of World War II, residential architecture in Chicago began to reappear as early as the late 1940s, mostly in the form of apartment towers, while the resumption ...
1946 Volvo PV 60 is First Produced
The Volvo PV60 is an automobile manufactured by Volvo between 1946 and 1950. It was the first car produced by the Swedish company at the end of the Second World War. The development of t...
1946 Jan 5 Felix 'Doc' Blanchard Wins Heisman Trophy
An All-American for three years, the 6-foot, 205 pound "Mr. Inside" scored 38 touchdowns and gained 1,908 yards on three powerhouse West Point teams that were unbeatable during the World ...
1946 Jan 8 Elvis receives first guitar on 11th birthday
For his eleventh birthday, Presley received his first guitar. He had wanted a rifle but his parents could only afford a guitar. Over the following year, Vernon's brother, Vester, gave Elv...
1946 Jan 12 Malcolm X is arrested for burglary
In late 1945, Little returned to Boston. With a group of associates, he began a series of elaborate burglaries targeting the residences of wealthy white families. On January 12, 1946, Lit...
1946 Feb 6 "The Spiral Staircase" Is Released
The Spiral Staircase is a 1945 American psychological thriller film, based on Ethel Lina White's novel Some Must Watch, in which the heroine was crippled rather than mute. The novel was a...
1946 Feb 22 George F. Kennan Writes the Long Telegram
G. F. Kennan had been stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow as minister-counselor since 1944. Although highly critical of the Soviet system, the mood within the U.S. State Department wa...
1946 Feb 23 Gerald Ford is Honorably Discharged from the US Navy
In January 1946, he was sent to the Separation Center, Great Lakes to be processed out. He was released from active duty under honorable conditions on February 23, 1946. On June 28, 1946,...
1946 Mar The Greek Civil War Reignites Following Attack on a Police Station in Litohoro
The Greek Civil War (Greek: ο Eμφύλιος [Πόλεμος], "the Civil War") was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek governmental army, backed by Britain and the USA, and the Democratic Army...
1946 Mar 4 FDA Approves Parke-Davis's Benadryl
Benadryl is an antihistamine. Diphenhydramine blocks the effects of the naturally occurring chemical histamine in the body. Benadryl is used to treat sneezing; runny nose; itching, wat...
1946 Mar 4 Frank Sinatra releases first studio album The Voice of Frank Sinatra
The Voice of Frank Sinatra is the first studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1946. It was released on Columbia Records, Set C-112, March 4, 1946. It was first issued...
1946 Mar 7 18th Academy Awards
The 18th Academy Awards was the first such ceremony after World War II. As a result, the ceremony featured more glamour than had been present during the war. Plaster statuettes that had b...
1946 Mar 7 Peter Wolf Is Born
Peter Wolf (born Peter W. Blankfield, March 7, 1946, Bronx, New York) is an American rock and roll musician, best known as the lead vocalist for the J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983. He...
1946 Mar 9 Burnden Park Disaster
On 9th March 1946 Bolton Wanderers played Stoke City in a FA Cup tie. Over 80,000 people entered the Burnden Park ground before the club closed the gates. Some locked out fans decided to ...
1946 Mar 14 Ernest Hemingway Marries Mary Welsh
According to A. E. Hotchner, Hemingway supposedly considered divorcing fourth wife Mary Welsh. Hotchner reports in a new preface to Papa Hemingway, that Hemingway once told him: I wish I ...
1946 Mar 17 Jackie Robinson makes debut in professional organized baseball with Montreal Royals
Jackie Robinson made his professional debut in organized professional baseball at Daytona's City Island Ballpark, in an exhibition game between the Royals and their parent club, the Brook...
1946 Mar 23 The British Cabinet Mission Arrives in India
The British Cabinet Mission of 1946 to India aimed to discuss and plans for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership, providing India with independence under Domini...
1946 Mar 26 Oklahoma A&M Beats North Carolina in NCAA Men's Basketball Championship
The 1946 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 8 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. ...
1946 Apr 4
to 1946 Apr 7
 Herman Keiser wins the 10th Masters Tournament
Playing the first post-war Masters, Herman Keiser and Ben Hogan both three-putted the 72nd hole to allow Keiser to win by one stroke.
1946 Apr 9 Montreal Canadiens win Stanley Cup
The 1946 Stanley Cup Final was a best-of-seven series between the Boston Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens. The Canadiens would win the series four games to one. Boston defeated the De...
1946 Apr 18 Jackie Robinson plays first regular season game with Montreal Royals
Jackie Robinson plays his first professional baseball game for the Montreal Royals at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, New Jersey. The Montreal Royals won 14 - 1.
1946 Apr 20 Make Mine Music is premiered
Make Mine Music is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 15, 1946. It is the eighth animated feature in the Walt Disney Anim...
1946 Apr 26 Naperville Train Disaster
The Naperville train disaster occurred on April 26, 1946 at the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad station in Naperville, Illinois when the railroad's Exposition Flyer rammed into th...
1946 Apr 27 "Shoeshine" Is Released
Shoeshine (Italian: Sciuscià) is a 1946 film and the first major work directed by Vittorio De Sica. In it, two Shoe shine boys get into trouble with the police after trying to find the mo...
1946 May 2 "The Postman Always Rings Twice" Is Released
The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1946 drama-film noir based on the 1934 The Postman Always Rings Twice novel by James M. Cain. This adaptation of the novel is the best known, featuring...
1946 May 5
to 1946 May 12
 The Simla Conference
In the summer of 1945, a conference was convened at Simla by the Viceroy, Lord Wavell, who had recently returned from England with the approval of the Newspaper report of the outcome of t...
1946 May 18 Swedish Ice Hockey Player Gösta Carlsson Witnesses a UFO Landing
UFO memorial stands at the spot where in 1946 he reportedly saw a local man Gösta Carlsson. As evidence of its local officials pointed stone, which is allegedly harder than diamond, odd-l...
1946 Jun Jimmy Carter Graduated from the US Naval Academy
After high school, Carter enrolled at Georgia Southwestern College, in Americus. He would later apply to the United States Naval Academy and, after taking additional mathematics courses a...
1946 Jun Marilyn Monroe and Jim Dougherty Get Divorced
In his 1976 book The Secret Happiness of Marilyn Monroe, as well as in various interviews and articles, Jim Dougherty blames the breakup of his marriage on his Merchant Marine duties. He ...
1946 Jun 20 "Anna And The King Of Siam" Is Released
Anna and the King of Siam is a 1946 drama film directed by John Cromwell. An adaptation of the 1944 book by Margaret Landon, it was based on the diaries of Anna Leonowens, a British gover...
1946 Jun 26 Full-Scale War Resumes Between the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang
With the breakdown of talks, an all out war resumed. This stage is referred to in Communist media and historiography as the "War of Liberation" (simplified Chinese: 解放战争; pinyin: Jiěfàng ...
1946 Jun 28 "Dead Of Night" Is Released
Dead of Night (1945) is a British portmanteau (or compendium) horror film made by Ealing Studios, its various episodes directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and ...
1946 Jul 6 George Walker Bush is Born
George Walker Bush is George and Barbara Bush's first child. George W., shown here in 1947, was born on July 6, 1946, as his father was finishing his studies at Yale University.
1946 Jul 7 Jimmy Carter Marries Rosalynn Smith
The Smith family had been close to the Carters for years and she was good friends with Jimmy's sister, Ruth. Rosalynn always claimed that she had had a crush on Ruth's brother for years b...
1946 Jul 11 Transcontinental and Western Air's Star of Lisbon Crashes
TWA Flight 513, registration NC86513, Star of Lisbon, was a Lockheed Constellation operated by Transcontinental and Western Air on a training flight on July 11, 1946 when it crashed near ...
1946 Jul 22 King David Hotel bombing
The King David Hotel bombing was an attack by the right-wing Zionist underground movement, the Irgun, on the central offices of the British Mandatory authorities of Palestine, the Secreta...
1946 Jul 25 Atomic Bomb, Baker, is Detonated Underwater
The second test, Shot "Baker," proved much more impressive. Detonated ninety feet underwater on the morning of July 25, Baker produced a spectacular display as it wreaked havoc on a seve...
1946 Aug 15 "Notorious" Is Released
Notorious (1946) is a thriller directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled ...
1946 Aug 16 Direct Action Day, Also Known as the "Great Calcutta Killing"
Direct Action Day, also known as the Great Calcutta Riot, was on 16 August 1946—a day of widespread riot and manslaughter in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in the Bengal prov...
1946 Aug 19 Bill Clinton is Born
Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe, III, in Hope, Arkansas. His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months...
1946 Aug 23 The Big Sleep is Released
The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart as detective Philip Marlowe ...
1946 Aug 26 Norma Jeane Changes Name to Marilyn Monroe
Norma Jeane chose to celebrate her good fortune with her new associates -- Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels. The first order of business was to change the young actress's name -- Lyon utterly lo...
1946 Aug 28 The Killers is Released
The Killers is a 1946 American film noir. It is based in part on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film was directed by Robert Siodmak and features Burt Lancaster ...