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The 1946 Windsor-Tecumseh, Ontario tornado on the Detroit River kills 17. Laurence Olivier's Henry V opens in the United States nearly 2 years after its release in the UK. It is the first Shakespeare film in color, and critics hail it as the finest film of a Shakespeare play ever made.
1946 Australian federal election: Ben Chifley's Labor government is re-elected with a reduced majority, defeating the Liberal/Country Coalition led by former Prime Minister Robert Menzies. This is the first occasion where a Labor government successfully wins two elections in a row on a federal level, albeit with a swing against them; among the ...
Created by Dayton, Ohio, publisher George A. Pflaum, who started Pflaum Publishing in 1885, [4] and debuting March 12, 1946, as Treasure Chest of Fun & Facts, [5] Treasure Chest was distributed in parochial schools and published biweekly throughout the school year until the 1960s, when it became monthly and doubled the number of pages.
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September 29, 1946 (Sunday) [ edit ] The St. Louis Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers both lost their final scheduled game of the season in the National League , finishing with identical 96-58 records and forcing the first tiebreaker playoff in Major League Baseball history.
1930 – The Democrats take Congress in the Midterms. Will keep it until 1946. 1930 - Hawley-Smoot Tariff; 1930 - Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto; 1930 - Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature; 1931 – Empire State Building opens in New York. 1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the ...
27 April – 1946 FA Cup Final: the first postwar FA Cup final is won by Derby County, who beat Charlton Athletic 4–1 at Wembley Stadium. [4] 4 May – First-class cricket returns, having been suspended during the War. [2] 20 May – The House of Commons votes through the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 to nationalise British coal mines.
In 1946 he also publishes his first album, Les Aventures de Clopinard. December 23: Marten Toonder's Panda makes its newspaper debut. [25] Marvel Mystery Comics (1939 series) #79 - Timely Comics; In Vaillant, Nasdine Hodja, by Roger Lecaux, a sort of Robin Hood living in the Arabian nights’ world, makes his debut.