WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 1946
Find out what all happened January to April 1946

ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. (15. February 1946)

Formation of the Malayan Union. (1. April 1946)

Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union were established. (18. March 1946)

The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published. (8. February 1946)

General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. (19. January 1946)

Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March. (3. April 1946)

Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc. (5. March 1946)

Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him. (3. January 1946)

Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more. (9. March 1946)

Syria obtains its Independence from the French occupation. (17. April 1946)

Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state. (11. January 1946)

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded. (29. March 1946)

The Bank of England is nationalised. (1. March 1946)

The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. (24. January 1946)

Syria's independence from France is officially recognised. (7. April 1946)

Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. (6. March 1946)

French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France. (19. March 1946)

African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil. (12. February 1946)

Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. (23. April 1946)

The Bank of England is nationalized. (14. February 1946)