WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1946
Find out what all happened March to October 1946

At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team. (25. July 1946)

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

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

France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic. (13. October 1946)

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

Naperville train disaster kills 47. (26. April 1946)

Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim. (18. June 1946)

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

Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops. (11. March 1946)

The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place; two guards and three inmates are killed. (2. May 1946)

Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States. (3. August 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)

Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam decides that on 20/10 is Vietnam Women's Day. (20. October 1946)

Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam. (2. March 1946)

The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy. (1. May 1946)

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

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

Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. (8. May 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)

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