WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1946
Find out what all happened January to August 1946

The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. (23. June 1946)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement. (29. April 1946)

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

The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir. (25. May 1946)

UMNO is created. (11. May 1946)

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

The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor. (25. January 1946)

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

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

The UN Security Council holds its first session. (17. January 1946)

In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot. (4. May 1946)