1946

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1946 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1946
MCMXLVI
Ab urbe condita2699
Armenian calendar1395
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԵ
Assyrian calendar6696
Baháʼí calendar102–103
Balinese saka calendar1867–1868
Bengali calendar1353
Berber calendar2896
British Regnal year10 Geo. 6 – 11 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2490
Burmese calendar1308
Byzantine calendar7454–7455
Chinese calendar乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
4643 or 4436
    — to —
丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
4644 or 4437
Coptic calendar1662–1663
Discordian calendar3112
Ethiopian calendar1938–1939
Hebrew calendar5706–5707
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2002–2003
 - Shaka Samvat1867–1868
 - Kali Yuga5046–5047
Holocene calendar11946
Igbo calendar946–947
Iranian calendar1324–1325
Islamic calendar1365–1366
Japanese calendarShōwa 21
(昭和21年)
Javanese calendar1876–1878
Juche calendar35
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4279
Minguo calendarROC 35
民國35年
Nanakshahi calendar478
Thai solar calendar2489
Tibetan calendar阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
2072 or 1691 or 919
    — to —
阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
2073 or 1692 or 920

1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade.

Events[edit]

January[edit]

January 10: First meeting of the UN.
January 10: Project Diana
January 28: Bluenose founders.

February[edit]

March[edit]

April[edit]

May[edit]

June[edit]

Four DUKW amphibious vehicles taking part in the Victory Parade in London on 8 June 1946

July[edit]

August[edit]

September[edit]

October[edit]

November[edit]

December[edit]

Date unknown[edit]

Births[edit]

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January[edit]

John Paul Jones
Diane Keaton
Dolly Parton
David Lynch
Arnoldo Alemán
Gene Siskel

February[edit]

Blake Clark
Charlotte Rampling
Tyne Daly
Anthony Daniels
Alan Rickman

March[edit]

David Gilmour
Frank Welker
Liza Minnelli
Timothy Dalton
Alejandro Toledo

April[edit]

Hanna Suchocka
Ed O'Neill
Tim Curry
Carl XVI Gustaf
Bill Plympton

May[edit]

Dame Joanna Lumley
Michael Rosen
Candice Bergen
Donovan
Udo Lindenberg
André the Giant
Cher
George Best
Irena Szewińska

June[edit]

Brian Cox
Donald Trump
Noddy Holder
Ted Shackelford
Ellison Onizuka
Ricky Jay
Gilda Radner

July[edit]

Mireya Moscoso
Leszek Miller
George W. Bush
Peter Singer
Sylvester Stallone
Cheech Marin
Hassanal Bolkiah
Linda Ronstadt
Danny Glover

August[edit]

Ralph Gonsalves
Óscar Berger
Lesley Ann Warren
Bill Clinton
Keith Moon
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
Peggy Lipton

September[edit]

Sir Barry Gibb
Roh Moo-hyun
Freddie Mercury
Jim Hines
Tommy Lee Jones
Oliver Stone
Mart Siimann
María Teresa Ruiz

October[edit]

Susan Sarandon
Vinod Khanna
Naoto Kan
Charles Dance
Chris Tarrant
Daryl Hall
Richard Carpenter
Suzanne Somers
Peter Green

November[edit]

Laura Bush
Sally Field
Petra Burka
Duane Allman
Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
Marina Abramović

December[edit]

José Carreras
Rhoma Irama
Patty Duke
Benny Andersson
Eugene Levy
Steven Spielberg
Carl Wilson
Jeff Sessions
Jimmy Buffett
Mike Beebe
Patti Smith
Diane von Fürstenberg

Date unknown[edit]

Deaths[edit]

January[edit]

Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen
László Bárdossy

February[edit]

Felix Hoffmann
Rafael Erich
Béla Imrédy

March[edit]

Ferenc Szálasi
Francisco Largo Caballero
Barbu Știrbey

April[edit]

Patriarch Eulogius
Juan Bautista Sacasa
Robert Bartlett

May[edit]

Alexei Nikolaevich Bach
Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Marcela de Agoncillo

June[edit]

Ion Antonescu
Sándor Simonyi-Semadam
King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) of Thailand
Gerhart Hauptmann
Jorge Ubico
Juan Antonio Ríos

July[edit]

Federico Laredo Bru
Shefqet Verlaci
Blessed Alexander Vvedensky

August[edit]

Wilhelm Marx
King Inayatullah Khan
H. G. Wells

September[edit]

Blessed Francesco Bonifacio

October[edit]

Ignacy Mościcki
István Bethlen
Blessed Alberto Marvelli
Per Albin Hansson

November[edit]

December[edit]

Walter Johnson
W. C. Fields

Nobel Prizes[edit]

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Further reading[edit]

  • Goulden, Joseph C. The Best Years: 1945–1950 (1976), popular social history of USA
  • Hennessy, Peter. Never Again: Britain, 1945–1951 (1994), a scholarly survey.
  • Kynaston, David. Austerity Britain, 1945–1951 (2008) excerpt and text search, a detaied social history.
  • Sebestyen, Victor. 1946: The Making of the Modern World (2015) excerpt
  • Weisbrode, Kenneth. The Year of Indecision, 1946: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America (2016) excerpt

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