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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.
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December 17, 1946 (Tuesday) A new American altitude record was set as a captured German V-2 rocket, No. 17, was launched to an altitude of 116 miles (187 km). The mark was unbroken until February 24, 1949, when a two-stage rocket more than doubled the height, to 250 miles (400 km).
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On September 14, 1946, France and the DRV had signed a modus vivendi, promising reciprocal rights and negotiations to end armed hostilities. The French did not follow through with any political concessions. Instead, France landed reinforcements at Da Nang in violation of an accord signed on March 6, 1946. Then in November 1946, local disputes led t...
A showdown was imminent. After Hai Phong, Franco-Vietnamese soldiers of the joint military commissions engaged in increasing levels of violence towards each other; their mutual confidence sinking to new lows. : 129 The DRV leaders had resolved to fight for Hanoi. It carried significant political capital for both sides, and in the aftermath of Frenc...
Viet Minh set off explosives, at 20:03 in the evening of December 19, 1946, after smuggling them past French Army guards into the city's power plant. The explosion plunged Hanoi into darkness, and throughout the city the Viet-Minh began attacking French military positions and French homes. About 600 French civilians were abducted during this time.S...
The defence had delayed the French advance longer than expected. Vu's defence allowed the DRV government to evacuate in an orderly manner, taking with them machinery, medical equipment, printing presses, and even the Voice of Vietnam’s transmitters into the countryside.: 138 Pre-battle discussions between Generals Võ Nguyên Giáp, Hoàng Văn Thái, pl...
Document "The word of the National Assembly of War Resistance" handwritten by Hồ Chí Minh on December 19, 1946.The youngest in the winter of 1946.Monument Determined to Brave Death for the Survival of the Fatherlandby artist Nguyễn-kim-Giao at Hàng-Dầu Street.Monument Determined to Brave Death for the Survival of the Fatherlandby artists Vũ-đại-Bình and Mai-văn-Kế at Vạn-Xuân Park.Bronze sculpture Lunge Mine soldierby artist Trần-văn-Hòe.Sculpture Hanoi in the winter 1946by Ngũ-xã's artists at the Đồng-Xuân Market.Hammer, Ellen Joy (1954). The struggle for Indochina. Stanford University Press.William J. Duiker (2000). Ho Chi Minh.Hachette Books, New York.Buttinger, Joseph (1972). A dragon defiant: a short history of Vietnam. Praeger.Fall, Bernard B. (1967). Hell in a very small place: the siege of Dien Bien Phu. Lippincott.- 19 December 1946 – 18 February 1947
- French capture of Hanoi
- Viet Minh withdrawal
December 5 – President Truman establishes the President's Committee on Civil Rights to investigate the status of civil rights in the United States and propose measures to strengthen and protect the civil rights of American citizens. December 7 – A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119. December 14.
Billboard. number-one singles of 1946. Prior to the introduction of the Hot 100, The Billboard compiled multiple weekly record charts ranking the performance of singles in the United States. In 1946, the magazine published the following four all-genre national singles charts:
1946) December 19 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924) December 20 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer (b. 1934) December 24 – Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Vietnamese politician (b. 1910) December 25 - JonBenét Ramsey, Child model (b. 1990) December 30 – Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908) Nobel Prizes
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