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.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1946 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1946
MCMXLVI
Ab urbe condita2699
Armenian calendar1395
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԵ
Assyrian calendar6696
Bahá'í calendar102–103
Balinese saka calendar1867–1868
Bengali calendar1353
Berber calendar2896
British Regnal year10 Geo. 6  11 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2490
Burmese calendar1308
Byzantine calendar7454–7455
Chinese calendar乙酉(Wood Rooster)
4642 or 4582
     to 
丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
4643 or 4583
Coptic calendar1662–1663
Discordian calendar3112
Ethiopian calendar1938–1939
Hebrew calendar5706–5707
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2002–2003
 - Shaka Samvat1867–1868
 - Kali Yuga5046–5047
Holocene calendar11946
Igbo calendar946–947
Iranian calendar1324–1325
Islamic calendar1365–1366
Japanese calendarShōwa 21
(昭和21年)
Javanese calendar1876–1878
Juche calendar35
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4279
Minguo calendarROC 35
民國35年
Nanakshahi calendar478
Thai solar calendar2489
Tibetan calendar阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
2072 or 1691 or 919
     to 
阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
2073 or 1692 or 920

Events

January

January 10: First meeting of the UN.
January 28: Bluenose founders.

February

March

April

May

June

Four DUKW amphibious vehicles taking part in the Victory Parade in London on 8 June 1946

July

August

September

October

November

December

Date unknown

Births

Births
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January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Date Unknown

Deaths

January

February

March

April

Patriarch Eulogius

May

Alexei Nikolaevich Bach

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Nobel Prizes

References

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Further reading

  • Goulden, Joseph C. The Best Years: 1945–1950 (1976), popular social history of USA
  • Hennessy, Peter. Never Again: Britain, 1945–1951 (1994)), a scholarly survey.
  • Kynaston, David. Austerity Britain, 1945–1951 (2008) excerpt and text search, a detaied social history.
  • Sebestyen, Victor. 1946: The Making of the Modern World (2015) excerpt
  • Weisbrode, Kenneth. The Year of Indecision, 1946: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America (2016) excerpt
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