Notable Historical Events - 1946
1946 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
ENIAC, US 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert |
Jan 1 |
Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god |
Jan 1 |
National Assembly proclaims Hungary a republic |
Jan 3 |
As a reward for his wartime cooperation, Governor Thomas E. Dewey commutes Charles "Lucky" Luciano's pandering sentence on condition that he does not resist deportation to Italy |
Jan 5 |
"Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 417 performances |
Jan 6 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum |
Jan 7 |
Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union |
Jan 9 |
"Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 77 performances |
Jan 10 |
UN General Assembly meets for 1st time (London) |
Jan 10 |
US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ |
Jan 11 |
Bert Bell becomes 2nd NFL commissioner, moves Chicago HQ to Phila |
Jan 11 |
Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator |
Jan 12 |
"Polonaise" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 113 performances |
Jan 12 |
Edouardo de Filippo's "Questi Fantasmi!," premieres in Rome |
Jan 12 |
NFL champs Cleveland Rams given permission to move to LA |
Jan 14 |
2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed |
Jan 17 |
United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting |
Jan 20 |
F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government |
Jan 21 |
"Nellie Bly" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 16 performances |
Jan 22 |
US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency |
Jan 23 |
Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA |
Jan 25 |
Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosis," premieres in Zurich |
Jan 25 |
United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor |
Jan 30 |
1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime |
Jan 31 |
Yugoslavia adopts new constitution, becomes a federal republic |
Feb 1 |
Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president |
Feb 1 |
Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN |
Feb 2 |
"Nellie Bly" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 16 performances |
Feb 2 |
The Proclamation of Hungarian Republic is made. |
Feb 4 |
Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday," premieres in NYC |
Feb 5 |
The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea. |
Feb 6 |
"Lute Song" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 142 performances |
Feb 7 |
Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC bill |
Feb 8 |
Béla Bartók's 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Philadelphia, PA, US |
Feb 8 |
Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties |
Feb 9 |
Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms |
Feb 10 |
Charles "Lucky" Luciano is deported to Italy, and never returns to the United States |
Feb 12 |
World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats. |
Feb 13 |
"Duchess Misbehaves" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 5 performances |
Feb 14 |
Bank of England nationalized |
Feb 15 |
Bank of England nationalized |
Feb 16 |
"Duchess Misbehaves" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 5 perfs |
Feb 16 |
1st commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport Ct |
Feb 17 |
Humanistic Covenant forms in Amsterdam |
Feb 19 |
Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League |
Feb 21 |
Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt |
Feb 24 |
Juan Peron elected President of Argentina |
Feb 26 |
2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia Tenn |
Feb 27 |
4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres (NYC) |
Mar 1 |
British government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years |
Mar 1 |
Panama accepts its new constitution |
Mar 1 |
The Bank of England is nationalised. |
Mar 2 |
Dutch troops land on East Bali |
Mar 2 |
Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam |
Mar 2 |
Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA |
Mar 3 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
Mar 3 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
Mar 5 |
Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton Missouri) popularizes the term and draws attention to division of Europe |
Mar 5 |
Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc. |
Mar 6 |
France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation |
Mar 7 |
"Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 323 perfs |
Mar 7 |
Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz" premieres in Zurich |
Mar 7 |
18th Academy Awards - "The Lost Weekend" Ray Milland & Joan Crawford win |
Mar 8 |
1st helicopter licensed for coml use (NYC) |
Mar 9 |
Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang |
Mar 9 |
Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican Baseball League, he refuses |
Mar 10 |
Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil |
Mar 12 |
Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland |
Mar 14 |
Belgian government of Spaak forms |
Mar 15 |
British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence |
Mar 16 |
"Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 77 performances |
Mar 19 |
French Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique & Reunion become overseas "departments" of France |
Mar 19 |
Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as president of USSR |
Mar 20 |
Belgian government of Spaak resigns |
Mar 21 |
Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933 |
Mar 21 |
UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx) |
Mar 22 |
1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up) |
Mar 22 |
Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan |
Mar 23 |
8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NC 43-40 |
Mar 25 |
1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto" |
Mar 28 |
Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power. |
Mar 29 |
1st Test Cricket between Australia & NZ |
Mar 29 |
Test Cricket debuts of Lindwall, Miller & Tallon |
Mar 30 |
"St Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 113 performances |
Mar 30 |
Australia beats NZ in cricket at 3 30pm on 2nd day |
Mar 30 |
Last Test Cricket appearance of Bill O'Reilly (5-14 & 3-19) |
Mar 31 |
Belgian government of Acker forms |
Mar 31 |
The first election is held in Greece after World War II. |
Apr 1 |
400,000 US mine workers strike |
Apr 1 |
Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii |
Apr 1 |
Van Acker forms Belgian government (without CVP) |
Apr 1 |
Weight Watchers forms |
Apr 1 |
Formation of the Malayan Union. |
Apr 3 |
Netherlands-German postal relations resume |
Apr 5 |
1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony |
Apr 7 |
10th Golf Masters Championship: Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282 |
Apr 7 |
Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR |
Apr 7 |
Syria's independence from France is officially recognised. |
Apr 8 |
League of Nations assembles for last time |
Apr 9 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 |
Apr 10 |
1st election for Japanese Diet |
Apr 12 |
Syria gains independence from France |
Apr 13 |
Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage & price freeze over |
Apr 13 |
Eddie Klepp, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champ Cleveland Buckeyes, is barred from field in Birmingham Alabama |
Apr 14 |
"Day Before Spring" closes at National Theater NYC after 167 perfs |
Apr 14 |
Manager Mel Ott of Giants hits 511th & final HR |
Apr 16 |
1st US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt |
Apr 16 |
NSB mayor of Rotterdam Neth, FE Muller sentence to 100 years in jail |
Apr 17 |
Syria declares independence from French administration |
Apr 18 |
"Call Me Mister" opens at National Theater NYC for 734 performances |
Apr 18 |
Jackie Robinson debuts as 2nd baseman for the Montreal Royals |
Apr 18 |
League of Nations dissolves (3 months after UN starts) |
Apr 18 |
Rome/Auerbach/Horwitt's musical "Call Me Mister" premieres in NYC |
Apr 18 |
US recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government |
Apr 19 |
Yankees switch from 3rd base to 1st base dug out |
Apr 20 |
1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs |
Apr 20 |
50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27 |
Apr 21 |
Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany |
Apr 22 |
SED, Sozialistic Einheitspartei Deutschlands, party forms |
Apr 23 |
Bkln Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 |
Apr 24 |
11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, & McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame |
Apr 25 |
"Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48 |
Apr 25 |
Christopher Fry's "Phoenix too Frequent" premieres in London |
Apr 27 |
1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed |
Apr 29 |
28 former Jap leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals |
Apr 30 |
Cleve Indian Bob Feller's 2nd no-hitter beats NY Yankees, 1-0 |
May 1 |
Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander |
May 1 |
Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year" |
May 1 |
Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians. |
May 1 |
The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy. |
May 2 |
Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die |
May 2 |
The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place, killing two guards and three inmates. |
May 3 |
International military tribunal in Tokyo begins |
May 4 |
5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay |
May 4 |
72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6 |
May 4 |
Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped |
May 6 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M Schlesinger (Age of Jackson)" |
May 7 |
William H Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands |
May 7 |
Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees. |
May 8 |
Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game |
May 8 |
The Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. |
May 9 |
1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres |
May 9 |
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, replaced by his son Umberto II |
May 10 |
Red Sox win 15th straight beat Yanks 5-4, DiMaggio hits Grand Slam |
May 11 |
1st night game at Boston Braves Field (Giants 5, Braves 1) |
May 11 |
72nd Preakness: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:01.4 |
May 11 |
United Malays National Organisation is created. |
May 13 |
Sarwate & Banerjee add 249 for 10th wkt for Indians v Surrey |
May 13 |
US sentences 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death |
May 13 |
Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam |
May 14 |
Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love" premieres |
May 16 |
Musical "Annie Get Your Gun" starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC |
May 17 |
KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections |
May 17 |
US President Harry Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike |
May 19 |
Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam |
May 20 |
Cubs Claude Passeau makes his 1st error since September 21, 1941, ending pitcher's fielding record of 273 consecutive errorless chances |
May 21 |
Physicist Louis Slotin is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation while preparing a plutonium core experiment at the Los Alamos lab, he dies 9 days later and the accident ends all hands-on nuclear assembly work at Los Alamos |
May 22 |
Yankees turn triple-play & defeat Tigers 5-3 |
May 22 |
First US rocket (WAC Corporal) to reach edge of space fired from White Sands Missile Range New Mexico |
May 24 |
Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager |
May 25 |
Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day); Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan |
May 26 |
2-for-42 & hitting .048 for 1946, Mel Ott stops playing baseball |
May 26 |
Darius Milhauds 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Prague |
May 26 |
Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia |
May 26 |
Patent filed in US for H-Bomb |
May 28 |
1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yanks 1) |
May 28 |
Manuel Roxas was inaugurated as the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines |
May 29 |
KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands |
May 30 |
Braves Bernard Malamud HR shatters Bulova clock in Ebbets Field |
May 30 |
United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: George Robson wins in 4:21:16.711 (184.785 km/h) |
Jun 1 |
78th Belmont: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:30.8 |
Jun 1 |
Spijkenisse soccer team forms in Spijkenisse |
Jun 1 |
Ion Antonescu, Romanian soldier and politician convicted of war crimes, is executed. |
Jun 2 |
Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day) |
Jun 3 |
1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris) |
Jun 3 |
International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals |
Jun 4 |
Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed |
Jun 5 |
Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago, Ill) |
Jun 6 |
11 Basketball of America Association teams meet to schedule 1st season |
Jun 6 |
Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV |
Jun 6 |
Martin Kresses begins publishing "Eric the Viking" comic strip |
Jun 6 |
The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City. |
Jun 7 |
Pirates players vote 20-16 to walkout rather than play the Giants |
Jun 7 |
US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel |
Jun 8 |
"Lute Song" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 142 performances |
Jun 8 |
Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia |
Jun 9 |
19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire (Dubuque, Iowa) |
Jun 9 |
66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest |
Jun 9 |
Bhumibol Adulyadej, becomes king of Thailand |
Jun 9 |
Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 9 |
NY Giant Mel Ott is 1st mgr ejected from both games of a doubleheader |
Jun 10 |
Italian Republic established |
Jun 10 |
Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA. Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA |
Jun 13 |
1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland |
Jun 13 |
King Umberto II of Italy abdicates |
Jun 14 |
Canadian Library Association established |
Jun 14 |
Nat King Cole records "The Christmas Song" for the first time |
Jun 16 |
"Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 perfs |
Jun 16 |
46th US Golf Open: Lloyd Mangrum shoots a 284 at Canterbury GC Cleve |
Jun 17 |
SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis |
Jun 18 |
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim. |
Jun 19 |
1st TV sports/boxing spectacular-Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn |
Jun 20 |
NYC transit begins using PA system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line |
Jun 21 |
10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas |
Jun 21 |
Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million |
Jun 21 |
Fed judge rules Seattle club doesn't have to play returning serviceman |
Jun 22 |
Alec Bedser takes 7-49 v India on 1st day of his 1st Test cricket |
Jun 22 |
Bill Veeck purchases Cleveland Indians |
Jun 22 |
Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Gandhi calls on the South African government to stop 'hooliganism' by Whites |
Jun 23 |
In South Africa, a group of white men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters |
Jun 24 |
11.72" (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen Wisc (state 24-hr record) |
Jun 24 |
Georges Bidault elected premier of France |
Jun 26 |
Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years |
Jun 26 |
Fred Allen's last radio show, his guest is Jack Benny |
Jun 28 |
Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st pres of Italy |
Jun 28 |
Permanent radio play-by-play of Cleve Indians games begins |
Jun 29 |
"Are You with It?" closes at Century Theater NYC after 264 perfs |
Jun 29 |
"Billion Dollar Baby" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 219 perfs |
Jun 29 |
Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist |
Jun 29 |
British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv |
Jul 1 |
Rajah cedes Sarawak to British crown |
Jul 1 |
US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion) |
Jul 2 |
Dutch Beel government forms |
Jul 2 |
Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam & Amsterdam |
Jul 3 |
1st Dutch government of Beel forms |
Jul 3 |
The Cape Passive Resistance Council is formed at a mass meeting in Cape Town, attended by 1,500 people |
Jul 4 |
Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die |
Jul 4 |
Philippines gains independence from US |
Jul 4 |
President Manuel Roxas was inaugurated as the 5th President of the Philippines and the first president of the Third Republic at the Independence Grandstand in Manila |
Jul 5 |
Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show |
Jul 5 |
75th British Golf Open: Sam Snead shoots a 290 at St Andrews |
Jul 6 |
"St Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 perfs |
Jul 6 |
53rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Louise Brough (6-2 6-4) |
Jul 6 |
60th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Yvon Petra beats G Brown (6-2 6-4 7-9 5-7 6-4) |
Jul 7 |
Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint |
Jul 8 |
"Tidbits of 1946" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 8 performances |
Jul 8 |
Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary |
Jul 9 |
13th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 12-0 at Fenway Park, Boston |
Jul 10 |
Belgian government of Acker resigns |
Jul 11 |
Kingman Douglass ends term as deputy director of CIA |
Jul 12 |
Benjamin Britten's "Rape of Lucretia" premieres in Glyndebourne |
Jul 12 |
Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park HR |
Jul 13 |
"Tidbits of 1946" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 8 performances |
Jul 14 |
Dr Benjamin Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" published |
Jul 14 |
Mass murder of Jews in Kielce, Poland |
Jul 14 |
Cleve Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles & HR but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8 RBIs |
Jul 15 |
British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown |
Jul 16 |
Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history) |
Jul 16 |
US court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau |
Jul 21 |
Jesus T Pinerol becomes 1st native born Puerto Rican governor |
Jul 22 |
Estelle Bennett, rocker (Ronettes) |
Jul 22 |
Menachen Begin's opposition group surprise attack on King David hotel |
Jul 23 |
Menachem Begin's Zionist militant group Irgun bombs the King David Hotel, the then British administrative headquarters for Palestine |
Jul 24 |
9 Spokane baseball players (Western League) die in a bus crash |
Jul 24 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island |
Jul 25 |
US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion) |
Jul 25 |
At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team. |
Jul 26 |
President Harry Truman orders desegregation of all US forces |
Jul 26 |
Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport |
Jul 27 |
Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs |
Jul 30 |
1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM |
Aug 1 |
US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) |
Aug 3 |
Belgian government of Huysmans forms |
Aug 4 |
An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless. |
Aug 6 |
US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court |
Aug 7 |
1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized |
Aug 8 |
India agrees to give Bhutan 32 sq miles |
Aug 8 |
Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney & John Galbreath for $25 million |
Aug 8 |
First flight of the Convair B-36. |
Aug 9 |
1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night |
Aug 13 |
Britain diverts illegal immigrants bound for Palestine to Cyprus |
Aug 16 |
Direct Action Day - riots in Calcutta between Moslem and Hindus kill over 4,000 over demand for Pakistan separate state |
Aug 17 |
Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique" premieres |
Aug 17 |
George Orwell publishes "Animal Farm" in the United Kingdom |
Aug 18 |
Golf Writers Associaton of America forms |
Aug 22 |
Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it |
Aug 22 |
Mikko Hietanen wins Oslo marathon (2:24:55) |
Aug 23 |
13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380) |
Aug 23 |
Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein. |
Aug 25 |
28th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland GC Portland Ore |
Sep 1 |
1st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Berg |
Sep 1 |
Greece votes for monarchy |
Sep 2 |
Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager |
Sep 2 |
Nehru forms government in India |
Sep 5 |
"Yours Is My Heart" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 36 performances |
Sep 5 |
Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game |
Sep 6 |
All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0) |
Sep 6 |
Terence Rattigan's "The Winslow Boy" premieres in London |
Sep 8 |
60th US Women's Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (11-9 6-3) |
Sep 8 |
66th US Men's Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom Brown Jr (9-7 6-3 6-0) |
Sep 8 |
Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minors record 456 |
Sep 8 |
Bulgaria ends monarchy |
Sep 8 |
Jack Kramer wins US Tennis Open |
Sep 8 |
SF 49ers play 1st AAFC game, lose to NY Yankees 21-7 |
Sep 11 |
1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation |
Sep 12 |
Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels |
Sep 13 |
Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant |
Sep 15 |
Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats |
Sep 17 |
"Gypsy Lady," opens at Century Theater NYC for 79 performances |
Sep 17 |
"If the Shoe Fits," opens at Century Theater NYC for 20 performances |
Sep 18 |
Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 20 |
Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe' |
Sep 20 |
The first Cannes Film Festival is held. |
Sep 21 |
Indians play their final game in League Park, ending a 55-year stay |
Sep 22 |
Evelyn Dick charged with butchering husband |
Sep 24 |
Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs |
Sep 26 |
1st edition of Tintin (Kuifje), publishes until June 1993 |
Sep 27 |
King George II of Greece returns from exile |
Sep 28 |
Greek king George II back in Athens |
Sep 29 |
"Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio |
Sep 29 |
1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards & Dodgers) |
Sep 29 |
Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine in 10 secs |
Sep 29 |
Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA |
Sep 29 |
NPS, Nationale Party Suriname, forms |
Sep 30 |
22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg |
Sep 30 |
Joachim von Ribbentrop & Hermann Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial |
Oct 1 |
12 Nazi war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg |
Oct 1 |
1st NL playoffs, Dodgers vs Cards (St Louis wins 2 games to 0) |
Oct 1 |
Bob Feller 348th strikeout of season |
Oct 2 |
1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont |
Oct 3 |
Cards beat Dodgers 8-4 at Ebbets Field to win NL playoffs 2-0 |
Oct 5 |
"Yours Is My Heart" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 36 perfs |
Oct 6 |
90°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct |
Oct 6 |
US Pres Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine |
Oct 7 |
Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet premieres |
Oct 8 |
Kwo-less-shrew selects Gen Chiang Kai-shek as president of China |
Oct 8 |
Military plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die |
Oct 9 |
First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50 |
Oct 9 |
Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" premieres in NYC |
Oct 10 |
Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer" premieres in Zurich |
Oct 14 |
Netherland & Indonesia sign cease fire |
Oct 15 |
Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140) |
Oct 15 |
St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 43rd World Series |
Oct 15 |
Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series |
Oct 16 |
10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials |
Oct 18 |
Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony premieres |
Oct 20 |
Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs NY Giants |
Oct 22 |
2 British ships sink near Albania |
Oct 23 |
UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC-Flushing Meadows) |
Oct 24 |
Netherlands & Indonesia sign cease fire |
Oct 24 |
A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space. |
Oct 25 |
1st trial against nazi war criminals (Nuremberg) |
Oct 27 |
Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%) |
Oct 28 |
German rocket engineers begin work in USSR |
Nov 1 |
Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University |
Nov 1 |
Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck's right foot is amputated |
Nov 1 |
Marken soccer team forms |
Nov 1 |
NY Knicks 1st basketball game beat Toronto Huskies 68-66 |
Nov 1 |
WABC becomes WCBS radio in NYC |
Nov 1 |
WEAF radio changes call letters to WNBC (NYC) |
Nov 1 |
West German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) created |
Nov 3 |
Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution |
Nov 4 |
"Park Avenue" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 72 performances |
Nov 4 |
UN Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization formed |
Nov 5 |
John F Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) elected to US House of Representatives |
Nov 7 |
"Bal Negre" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 54 performances |
Nov 8 |
Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse" premieres in Paris |
Nov 9 |
Pres Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze |
Nov 10 |
Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election |
Nov 11 |
NY Knicks' 1st game at Madison Sq Garden loses 78-68 to Chic Stags |
Nov 12 |
1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago) |
Nov 12 |
Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released |
Nov 12 |
A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows. |
Nov 13 |
First artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA |
Nov 13 |
Bradman scores 106 for an Australian XI v the MCC |
Nov 14 |
Dutch Dakota flight to Schiphol crashes, kills 11 |
Nov 15 |
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley |
Nov 15 |
Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP |
Nov 19 |
Bradman scores 119 South Australia v Victoria, 183 mins, 8 fours |
Nov 20 |
Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest" premieres in NYC |
Nov 21 |
Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria |
Nov 21 |
Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub |
Nov 23 |
"Gypsy Lady" closes at Century Theater NYC after 79 performances |
Nov 23 |
34th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 28-6 |
Nov 23 |
French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000 |
Nov 23 |
The Workers Party of South Korea is founded. |
Nov 27 |
English soccer team beats Netherlands, 8-2 |
Nov 28 |
French government of Bidault resigns |
Nov 28 |
Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to death sentenced |
Nov 29 |
Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities |
Nov 30 |
Bradman scores 187 in 1st Test Cricket v England at the Gabba |
Dec 1 |
Australia compile 645 v India at the Gabba (Bradman 187) |
Dec 3 |
12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB) |
Dec 3 |
US government asks UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain |
Dec 5 |
Pres Harry Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808 |
Dec 7 |
Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119 |
Dec 8 |
Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight |
Dec 10 |
German/Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style" |
Dec 11 |
Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label |
Dec 11 |
Spain suspended from UN |
Dec 11 |
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965) |
Dec 12 |
Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38 |
Dec 12 |
Tide detergent introduced |
Dec 12 |
UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr |
Dec 13 |
Leon Blum elected French premier |
Dec 14 |
"Three to Make Ready" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 323 perfs |
Dec 14 |
Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN |
Dec 14 |
UN General Assembly votes to establish UN HQs in NYC |
Dec 15 |
Chic Bears beat NY Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game |
Dec 15 |
Giants Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt |
Dec 17 |
Bradman & Barnes complete 405 run 5th wkt stand, score 234 ea |
Dec 17 |
US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM |
Dec 18 |
TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run in US |
Dec 19 |
Noel Cowards musical "Pacific 1860" premieres in London |
Dec 19 |
War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi |
Dec 20 |
Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres |
Dec 21 |
"If the Shoe Fits" closes at Century Theater NYC after 20 performances |
Dec 21 |
Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086 |
Dec 21 |
Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" premieres |
Dec 21 |
Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show" premieres in Indianapolis |
Dec 22 |
"Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 54 performances |
Dec 22 |
Cleveland Browns beat NY Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game |
Dec 23 |
Belgian Council of State forms |
Dec 23 |
Highest ridership in NYC subway history (8.8 million passengers) |
Dec 23 |
U of Tenn refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game |
Dec 24 |
4th French republic established |
Dec 24 |
US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor nazis" amnesty |
Dec 24 |
France's Fourth Republic is founded. |
Dec 25 |
Constitution accepted in Taiwan |
Dec 26 |
"Beggar's Holiday" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 111 performances |
Dec 26 |
"Toplitzky of Notre Dame" opens at Century Theater NYC for 60 perfs |
Dec 26 |
35th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0) |
Dec 26 |
Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era) |
Dec 31 |
French troops leave Lebanon |
Dec 31 |
Pres Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II |
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