12 events found for 1946
The final session of the League of Nations concluded in Geneva, with delegates agreeing to transfer much of its assets t
Two passenger trains collided in Naperville, Illinois, leaving 45 people dead and some 125 injured
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony
While working with a mass of plutonium known as the demon core, Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin accidentally ex
Canada's largest recorded onshore earthquake struck Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Named after Bikini Atoll, the site of the nuclear-weapons test Operation Crossroads in the Marshall Islands, the…
After weeks of unrest, rioters lynched Bolivian president Gualberto Villarroel, desecrating and hanging his corpse in…
Several days of anti-Jewish rioting began in Bratislava, instigated by former Slovak partisans opposed to the…
The Soviet Union informed Turkey that the way in which the latter was handling the Turkish Straits no longer…
Widespread riots between Hindus and Muslims took place in Calcutta following the All-India Muslim League's call for an…
The interim government of India, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, was formed to assist the transition of India from British…
While riding a train to Darjeeling, India, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu, later Mother Teresa (pictured), experienced what…