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1946 Calendar

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•  February 1, 1946 – Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
•  February 2, 1946 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
•  March 18, 1946 – Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
•  May 5, 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
•  June 27, 1946 – In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
•  July 4, 1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
•  July 22, 1946 – King David Hotel bombing: a Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
•  August 4, 1946 – An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
•  September 2, 1946 – The Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
•  October 1, 1946 – Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.

•  February 21, 1946 – Tyne Daly, American actress
•  March 16, 1946 – Hubert Soudant, Dutch conductor
•  March 27, 1946 – Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
•  May 1, 1946 – Joanna Lumley, English actress
•  July 5, 1946 – Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate
•  July 11, 1946 – Cuthbert Johnson, Benedictine abbot.
•  July 29, 1946 – Neal Doughty, American keyboardist (REO Speedwagon)
•  August 6, 1946 – Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
•  October 5, 1946 – Jean Perron, Canadian ice hockey coach
•  November 4, 1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)