Historical Events In 1946
May 24 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
May 17 President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike
May 13 Sarwate & Banerjee add 249 for 10th wicket for Indians vs Surrey
May 26 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
May 14 The House of Commons passes the Canadian Citizenship Act; first nationality statute in Canada to define its people as Canadians
May 26 Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia
May 02 Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die
May 03 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
May 07 William H Hastie inaugurated as first black governor of Virgin Islands
May 10 Umberto II succeeds Victor Emmanuel III as king of Italy
May 01 Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of the Year"
May 25 Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
May 08 The birth of Candice Bergen, American actress
May 29 KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands
May 16 The Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun opens
May 19 Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam
May 13 Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam
May 11 The first packages from the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, or CARE, arrive in Europe at Le Havre, France
May 09 King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto
May 01 Fieldmarshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander
May 17 KVP Labor/Communists win first post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections
May 13 US convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
May 30 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (New York) 42 die
May 20 The birth of Cher, American actress
Jan 11 Enver Hoxha declares People's Republic of Albania with himself dictator
Jan 23 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes first director of CIA
Jan 06 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum
Jan 01 National Assembly proclaims Hungary a republic
Jan 01 ENIAC, US first computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert
Jan 05 The birth of Dianne Keaton, American film actress
Jan 29 The racing schooner Bluenose sinks after striking a reef off Haiti
Jan 06 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum
Jan 07 Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
Jan 05 "Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City NY for 417 performances
