31 events found for 1946
The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because
The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship
Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.
The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the…
Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris.
Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom.