WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1946
Find out what all happened February to September 1946

The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich. (19. September 1946)

The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands. (18. April 1946)

The National Basketball Association is created, with eleven teams. (6. June 1946)

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

While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters' Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". She would become known as Mother Teresa. (10. September 1946)

The All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress is founded in Secunderabad. (16. August 1946)

Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees. (7. May 1946)

Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll. (25. July 1946)

Aleutian Island earthquake: A 8.6 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands creates a tsunami that strikes the Hawaiian Islands killing 159, mostly in Hilo. (1. April 1946)

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

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

First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle. (8. August 1946)

The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir. (25. May 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)

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)

The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933. (21. March 1946)

Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians. (1. May 1946)

King David Hotel bombing: a Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths. (22. July 1946)

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

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