
1946
- 1st meeting of U.N. General Assembly
- Italy abolishes monarchy
- Emperor Hirohito of Japan renounces his divinity
- Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
- Juan Peron becomes president of Argentina
- The Philippines becomes a republic
- Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam
- 1st Cannes Film Festival
- Mother Frances Cabrini canonized as America's 1st saint
- The Atomic Energy Commission established in US
- Possible link between smoking and lung cancer 1st discussed
- Dr. Benjamin Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
- "Slinky" introduced
- ENIAC computer
- "Xerography" introduced
- 1st mobile phone
- Broadway - "Annie Get Your Gun"
- Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Tommy Lee Jones, Liza Minelli, Reggie Jackson,
and Ilie Nastase born
- Booth Tarkington, Gertrude Stein, H.G. Wells, and W.C. Fields die
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