1946 Events

Explore the key events of 1946, from the end of World War II to the birth of the United Nations and the beginning of the Cold War. Learn more about this pivotal year in history.

January

January 2- In the main square of León ( Mexico ), the government of the pro-American anti-socialist and ultra-Catholic military man, Manuel Ávila Camacho , orders the murder of civilians demanding democracy.
January 2 – Argentine actress and singer Libertad Lamarque(1908-2000) arrives in Cuba for the first time.
January 9- Jorge Aguilar Mora , Mexican novelist, essayist, literary critic, poet and professor, is born (d. 2024).
January 12- In New York (United States), the UN General Assembly creates the Security Council .
January 16- In London (United Kingdom), Spanish child prodigy Arturo Pomar wins a chess tournament.
January 18 – In Mexico, the Party of the Mexican Revolution(PRM) is established , today called the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ).
January 18 – Óscar Zanetti, Cuban social scientist, historian, university professor and essayist, is born.
January 25- Carlos Javier Beltrán , Argentine romantic music singer and balladeer, is born (d. 2012).
January 28- In Santiago de Chile , Vice President Juan Antonio Iribarren (1885-1968) orders the army to repress workers protesting in front of the Palacio de la Moneda and kills six of them (Plaza Bulnes massacre).
January 28 – Juan Verduzco(78), Mexican actor and comedian, is born (b. 1946).

February

February 1- In New York, Norwegian Trygve Lie is elected the first Secretary-General of the UN .
February 14- In the United States, the first computer in history, the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), is turned on for the first time.
February 23- Rodolfo García , Argentine rock drummer and musician, is born (d. 2021).
February 26- Ahmed Hassan Zewail , Egyptian chemist and university professor, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry in 1999, is born.
February 28- Mirta Ibarra , Cuban actress, screenwriter, playwright and documentary filmmaker, is born.

March

March 1- Cuban patriot Emilio Laurent Dubé dies .
March 2 – Ho Chi Minhis elected president of North Vietnam .
March 3- Soviet musician Igor Stravinsky makes his Cuban debut at the Amadeo Roldán Auditorium Theater in Havana .
March 10- Hungarian-American mathematician John Von Neuman introduces internal memory into electronic calculating machines
March 16 – The League Against Blindnessand Protection of the Blind is founded .
March 20- The Puerto Rican Senate approves a bill that reestablishes Spanish as an official language.
March 21- Benito Castro , Cuban internationalist combatant who died in combat in Angola, is born (d. 1981).
March 24- Russian Alexander Alekhine , fourth world chess champion, dies in Lisbon .
March 25- The diamond from the National Capitol of Cuba , which marks kilometer zero of the central highway, disappears.

April

April 1- Caridad Cuervo , Cuban guarachera singer, is born.
April 2- Evelio Hernández Soufront , Cuban baseball player, is born.
April 4- Yacouba Sawadogo , Burkinabe farmer , known as “the man who stopped the desert” is born (d. 2023).
April 7- Colette Besson , French athlete, is born.
April 18- The League of Nations is dissolved when the United Nations is created .
April 21 – John Maynard Keynes, British economist, dies .
April 21 – The Socialist Unity Partyis founded in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) .
April 26- Hermann Keyserling , German philosopher, dies.

May

May 12 – Pedro Henriquez Ureña, Dominican writer and linguist, dies .
May 15 – A DC-3aircraft inaugurates the Havana – Miami route .
May 17- Murder of peasant leader Niceto Pérez .
May 19- Jorge Soccodato , Argentine folk singer, guitarist and payador (improviser), is born.
May 20- Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian Lappere), American actress and singer, is born.
May 25 – Transjordan, now Jordan, is proclaimed an independent state .
May 25- María Magdalena Fernández Betancourt , member of the National Basketball Team and the first Cuban woman to be declared a referee, is born.

June

June 4 – The Königsbergregion (East Prussia), which belonged to Germany, is renamed Kaliningrad , as part of the Soviet Union .
June 5- Helio Vera , Paraguayan writer, lawyer, editorialist and journalist, is born (d. 2008).
June 14 – Jorge Ubico Castañeda, Guatemalan president, dies .
June 20- José Alejandro, Xanana, Gusmao , first president of East Timor , is born .
June 22- Eliades Ochoa , Cuban singer, is born.
June 23- Swedish athlete Sigfrid Edström becomes IOC president .
June 25- Guillermo Manuel Vázquez Pérez , Cuban painter and cultural promoter, creator of the coat of arms of Los Arabos, is born.

July

July 1 – On BikiniAtoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the United States detonates an atomic bomb .
July 4 – The Republic of the Philippinesis founded after 46 years of American rule.
July 4 – Jorge Eduardo Arellano, Nicaraguan writer and historian, is born.
July 5- In Paris (France), fashion designer Louis Reard presents the bikini , on the body of dancer Micheline Bernardi .
July 6- George Walker Bush , American president, son of President George Bush, is born.
July 6 – Sylvester Stallone, American actor and producer, is born.
July 13- Chich Marín , American actor, comedian and screenwriter of Mexican descent, is born.
July 15- José Luis Díaz-Granados , Colombian poet, novelist and journalist, is born.
July 15 – Linda Ronstadt, American singer, is born.
July 21- In La Paz ( Bolivia ), during a popular uprising fueled by the right, the oligarchy and the United States embassy, the president of Bolivia, General Gualberto Villaroel (37), is deposed and stabbed to death .
July 22- In Jerusalem ( Israel ), Jewish terrorists from the Irgun Svai Leumi organization destroy part of the King David Hotel with explosives.
July 22 – Birth of Laura Bove, Argentine actress, playwright, teacher and theater director (d. 2020).
July 31- Agustín Parlá (58), Cuban pilot, the first to fly an airplane (b. 1887); suicide.

August

August 14- Osvaldo Navarro , Cuban poet, journalist and novelist, expatriated in Mexico, is born (d. 2008).
August 19- Bill Clinton , American politician, president between 1993 and 2001, is born.
August 23- Sami Naïr is born . French politician and thinker of Algerian origin.
August 27- The International Union of Students is founded in Prague , Czechoslovakia .

September

September 2- Orlando Martínez Romero , Cuban boxer, is born.
September 5- Freddy Mercury , British singer, is born in Zanzibar.
September 7- JJ Benítez , Spanish sensationalist writer and former anti-communist journalist, is born.
September 15- Oliver Stone , American filmmaker, is born.
September 19- Ángel Ruggiero , Argentine theatre director, drama teacher and essayist expatriated in Spain, is born (d. 1992).
September 20 – The first Cannes International Film Festivalis held in the city of Cannes (southern France) .
September 20 – Pancho Soriano(Francisco Pedro Soriano), sports correspondent, narrator, commentator and announcer for Matanzas and national radio and television, is born.
September 25- Louisa Moritz (Luisa Castro Netto), Cuban actress and lawyer expatriated in the United States, is born (d. 2019).

October

October 7- Noel Nicola , Cuban musician, is born.
October 20- In Bayamón ( Puerto Rico ) Gilberto Concepción de Gracia founds the Puerto Rican Independence Party .
October 20- Elfriede Jelinek , Austrian novelist and essayist, Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 2004, is born.
October 20 – Eduardo Ramos, Cuban composer, arranger, double bassist and guitarist, is born (d. 2018).
October 22- In Viñales (Cuba), Antonio Núñez Jiménez goes on an excursion, where he finds a Plesiosaur head , fish, ammonites and fossilized wood.
October 26- The Latin American Baseball Stadium is inaugurated in Havana .
October 29- Mafia boss Salvatore Lucania , “ Lucky Luciano ,” arrives in Cuba via Camagüey .
October 30- Horacio Fontova , Argentine singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor and writer, is born (d. 2020), friend of Cuba.

November

November 3- Manuel Patarroyo , Colombian physician, epidemiology and immunology researcher, is born.
November 4 – UNESCO , the UNEducational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , is established .
November 14- Manuel de Falla , Spanish composer expatriated in Argentina, dies.
November 16- An American pigeon is decorated for its messenger services during World War II (1939-1945) .
November 17 – The footballers Muñoz, Moreno , Pedernera , Labruna and Loustau play together for the last time , ending the successful forward line of the River team .
November 23- In Vietnam, French aircraft bomb the civilian population of the city of Haipong .
November 29- Silvio Rodríguez , Cuban singer-songwriter, is born.
November 29 – Francisco de Paula Coronado(76), Cuban humanist, encyclopedist, historian, professor and librarian, dies (b. 1870).

December

December 3- Joop Zoetemelk , Dutch cyclist, is born.
December 3 – José Luis García Cuevas, Cuban scientist and university professor born in Spain, is born (d. 2021).
December 5 – The UNis permanently established in New York .
December 5 – José Carreras, Spanish tenor, is born.
December 12- The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is signed in Washington DC (United States).

Unknown date

In Santiago, Chile, Senator María de la Cruzfounds the Chilean Women’s Party.
Hector Rodriguez, Cuban journalist and sports commentator, is born (d. 2012).
Carlos Venegas Fornias, Cuban historian, researcher and essayist, is born .

1946 Events

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