WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1946
Find out what all happened April to October 1946

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

King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II. (9. May 1946)

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. (5. May 1946)

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

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

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

Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport (26. July 1946)

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

Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. (21. May 1946)

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

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

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

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

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

First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground. (10. May 1946)

Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours. (10. July 1946)

The bikini goes on sale after debuting during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris, France (5. July 1946)

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

A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people. (5. June 1946)