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.

Clockwise from top-left: the Dead Sea Scrolls are discovered; the All-India Muslim League takes direct action on Direct Action Day;First Indochina War between France and the Viet Minh; ENIAC, the first general-purpose computer; the Greek Civil War breaks out between the Kingdom of Greece and the Communist Party of Greece-led Provisional Democratic Government; post-war issues cause a famine in the Soviet Union; Crisis breaks out in Iran, one of the first crises of the Cold War; the Nuremberg trials are held by the Allies against representatives of defeated Nazi Germany.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1946 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1946
MCMXLVI
Ab urbe condita2699
Armenian calendar1395
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԵ
Assyrian calendar6696
Baháʼí 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乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
4643 or 4436
    — to —
丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
4644 or 4437
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

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January

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

February

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March

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April

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June

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

July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Date unknown

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Births

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Births
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January

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John Paul Jones
 
Diane Keaton
 
Dolly Parton
 
David Lynch
 
Arnoldo Alemán
 
Gene Siskel

February

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Blake Clark
 
Charlotte Rampling
 
Tyne Daly
 
Anthony Daniels
 
Alan Rickman

March

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David Gilmour
 
Frank Welker
 
Liza Minnelli
 
Timothy Dalton
 
Alejandro Toledo

April

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Hanna Suchocka
 
Ed O'Neill
 
Tim Curry
 
Carl XVI Gustaf
 
Bill Plympton
 
Dame Joanna Lumley
 
Michael Rosen
 
Candice Bergen
 
Donovan
 
Udo Lindenberg
 
André the Giant
 
Cher
 
George Best
 
Irena Szewińska

June

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Brian Cox
 
Donald Trump
 
Noddy Holder
 
Ted Shackelford
 
Ellison Onizuka
 
Ricky Jay
 
Gilda Radner

July

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Mireya Moscoso
 
Leszek Miller
 
George W. Bush
 
Peter Singer
 
Sylvester Stallone
 
Cheech Marin
 
Hassanal Bolkiah
 
Linda Ronstadt
 
Danny Glover

August

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Ralph Gonsalves
 
Óscar Berger
 
Lesley Ann Warren
 
Bill Clinton
 
Keith Moon
 
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
 
Peggy Lipton

September

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Sir Barry Gibb
 
Roh Moo-hyun
 
Freddie Mercury
 
Jim Hines
 
Tommy Lee Jones
 
Oliver Stone
 
Mart Siimann
 
María Teresa Ruiz

October

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Susan Sarandon
 
Vinod Khanna
 
Naoto Kan
 
Charles Dance
 
Chris Tarrant
 
Daryl Hall
 
Richard Carpenter
 
Suzanne Somers
 
Peter Green

November

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Laura Bush
 
Sally Field
 
Petra Burka
 
Duane Allman
 
Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
 
Marina Abramović

December

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José Carreras
 
Rhoma Irama
 
Patty Duke
 
Benny Andersson
 
Eugene Levy
 
Steven Spielberg
 
Carl Wilson
 
Jeff Sessions
 
Jimmy Buffett
 
Mike Beebe
 
Patti Smith
 
Diane von Fürstenberg

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Deaths

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January

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Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen
 
László Bárdossy

February

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Felix Hoffmann
 
Rafael Erich
 
Béla Imrédy

March

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Ferenc Szálasi
 
Francisco Largo Caballero
 
Barbu Știrbey

April

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Patriarch Eulogius
 
Juan Bautista Sacasa
 
Robert Bartlett
 
Alexei Nikolaevich Bach
 
Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
 
Marcela de Agoncillo

June

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Ion Antonescu
 
Sándor Simonyi-Semadam
 
King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) of Thailand
 
Gerhart Hauptmann
 
Jorge Ubico
 
Juan Antonio Ríos

July

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Federico Laredo Bru
 
Shefqet Verlaci
 
Blessed Alexander Vvedensky

August

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Wilhelm Marx
 
King Inayatullah Khan
 
H. G. Wells

September

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Blessed Francesco Bonifacio

October

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Ignacy Mościcki
 
István Bethlen
 
Blessed Alberto Marvelli
 
Per Albin Hansson

November

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December

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Walter Johnson
 
W. C. Fields

Date unknown

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Nobel Prizes

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Further reading

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  • 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 detailed 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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