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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1946. 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.
November 8 – The English novelist and diarist Christopher Isherwood becomes a U.S. citizen. December 18. Brendan Behan is released from internment in the Republic of Ireland under an amnesty. Damon Runyon 's ashes are scattered over New York City from an airplane piloted by Eddie Rickenbacker.
Jan 4, 2024 · In the book, a Nazi officer falls in love with the wife of Auschwitz’s commandant, who is loosely based on Rudolf but doesn’t share his name. ... In March 1946, British soldiers showed up at ...
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Oct 1, 2014 · 4.19. 657 ratings91 reviews. With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the second half of the twentieth century, but continue to affect our world today and impact on its future. In 1946 the Cold War began, the state of Israel ...
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August 1. President Truman signs the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, which establishes the United States Atomic Energy Commission. The Fulbright Program, a system of U.S. international educational exchange scholarships, is established. August 25 – American golfer Ben Hogan wins the PGA Championship.
Oct 19, 2018 · There have been the usual quota of sensitively recorded novels of personal experience,” wrote one reviewer. “But we have waited a long time for a new writer.”. And the time was right for one, too. “Turmoil was in the air that fervid summer in 1940,” Rafia Zakaria wrote last year in The Guardian.
1946. 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.
