WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO NOVEMBER 1946
Find out what all happened July to November 1946

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

Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom. (1. October 1946)

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

The Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister. (2. September 1946)

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

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

Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg Trials. (1. October 1946)

The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City. (23. October 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)

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

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

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

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

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

USS Nevada (BB-36) is decommissioned. (29. August 1946)

After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States. (4. July 1946)

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

Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea. (1. October 1946)

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

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