WHAT HAPPENED IN 1946.
Look what happened the 1946.

A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space. (24. October 1946)

Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is ordained to the priesthood by Krakow's archbishop, Adam Sapieha. (1. November 1946)

Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations. (19. November 1946)

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

The All Indonesia Centre of Labour Organizations (SOBSI) is founded in Jakarta. (29. November 1946)

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

The "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials" begin with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia. (9. December 1946)

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

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established. (11. December 1946)

A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement, killing 37 people. (12. December 1946)

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

U.S.-backed Iranian troops evict the leadership of the breakaway Republic of Mahabad, putting an end to the Iran crisis of 1946. (15. December 1946)

The first election to the Representative Assembly of French India was held. (15. December 1946)

Thailand joins the United Nations. (16. December 1946)

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

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

An 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kills over 1,300 people and destroys over 38,000 homes. (21. December 1946)

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

President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II. (31. December 1946)