Page 7: Historical Events In 1946

May 13   Sarwate & Banerjee add 249 for 10th wkt for Indians v Surrey in the year 1946.   

May 13   US convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death in the year 1946.   

May 13   Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam on this day in history.   

May 14   In the year 1946 paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love," premieres   

May 14   The House of Commons passes the Canadian Citizenship Act; first nationality statute in Canada to define its people as Canadians in the year 1946.   

May 16   On this day in history the Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun opens   

May 17   In the year 1946 kVP Labor/Communists win first post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections   

May 17   President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike on this day in history.   

May 19   Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam on this day in history.   

May 20   Cubs Claude Passeau makes his 1st error since September 21, 1941, ending pitcher's fielding record of 273 consecutive errorless chances in the year 1946.   

May 20   In the year 1946 the birth of Cher, American actress   

May 22   Yankees turn triple-play & defeat Tigers' 5-3 in the year 1946.   

May 24   In the year 1946 transjordan (now known as Jordan) becomes a kingdom, with King Abdulla Ibn Ul-Hussein as the new monarch   

May 25   Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan in the year 1946.   

May 25   Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day) in the year 1946.   

May 25   In the year 1946 patty Smith Hill, songwriter (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 78   

May 26   On this day in history 2-for-42 & hitting .048 for 1946, Mel Ott stops playing baseball   

May 26   Friedrich A H von Waldeck, monarch of Waldeck, dies in the year 1946.   

May 26   Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia in the year 1946.   

May 26   Patent filed in US for H-Bomb on this day in history.   

May 28   On this day in history 1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yanks 1)   

May 29   KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands on this day in history.   

May 30   United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (New York) 42 die in the year 1946.   

Jun 01   On this day in history ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed   

Jun 02   Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day) on this day in history.   

Jun 03   On this day in history 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)   

Jun 03   Michail I Kalinin, Pres (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60 on this day in history.   

Jun 04   Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed in the year 1946.   

Jun 05   Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago Ill) on this day in history.   

Jun 06   In the year 1946 11 Basketball of America Assn teams meet to schedule 1st season   

Jun 06   Gerhart Hauptmann, writer, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

Jun 06   In the year 1946 henry Morgan is first to take off shirt on TV   

Jun 07   In the year 1946 bill Kreutzmann Jr, Palo Alto CA, drummer (Grateful Dead)   

Jun 07   In the year 1946 pirates players vote 20-16 to walkout rather than play the Giants   

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Jan 02   In the year 1946 birth of richard Cole, American tour manager   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of john Paul Jones [John Baldwin], rock bassist (Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven)   

Jan 03   In the year 1946 birth of cissy King, American entertainer   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of bernard Sumner, rocker (New Order-Round & Round)   

Jan 04   Susannah McCorkle, American jazz singer (d. 2001) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   "Crazy Barret Diamond" Syd, rocker (Pink Floyd) was born in the year 1946.   

Jan 05   Diane Keaton, [Hall], LA, actress (Annie Hall, Little Drummer Girl) was born in the year 1946.   

Jan 06   Harold Jackson, Hattiesburg, MS, NFL wide receiver (LA, New Engl) was born in the year 1946.   

Jan 02   On this day in history joe Darling, cricketer (Aussie captain 21 Tests, won 7 lost 4), dies   

Jan 03   William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason died in the year 1946.   

Jan 04   Barney Oldfield, daredevil, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

Jan 05   In the year 1946 death of kitty Cheatham, American singer (b. 1864)   

Jan 07   Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874) died on this day in history.   

Jan 09   Countee Cullen, US poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven), dies at 42 in the year 1946.   

Jan 16   In the year 1946 johanna HC Albregt, actress/wife of Henri Dons (Paradise), dies at 71   

Jan 17   Gottfried Rudinger, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.