WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1946
Find out what all happened July to December 1946

The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India. (9. December 1946)

Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong. (24. September 1946)

The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II. (20. September 1946)

French bombing of Hai Phong, Viet Nam, kills thousands of civilians. (23. November 1946)

Mass riots in Kolkata begin, in which more than 4,000 would be killed in 72 hours. (16. August 1946)

Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood. (7. July 1946)

Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein. (23. August 1946)

An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless. (4. August 1946)

Start of the First Indochina War. (19. December 1946)

Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam decides that on 20/10 is Vietnam Women's Day. (20. October 1946)

At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team. (25. July 1946)

The United Nations General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York, New York. (14. December 1946)

The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within Soviet nuclear reactor F-1. (25. December 1946)

USS Nevada (BB-36) is decommissioned. (29. August 1946)

Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized. (7. July 1946)

Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason. (1. August 1946)

Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial. (16. October 1946)

The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York, New York. (20. December 1946)

United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany. (6. September 1946)

A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history. (7. December 1946)