WHAT HAPPENED IN 1946.
Look what happened the 1946.

Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets. (26. February 1946)

The Bank of England is nationalised. (1. March 1946)

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

Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri. (5. March 1946)

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

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

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

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

French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France. (19. March 1946)

The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933. (21. March 1946)

The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership. (24. March 1946)

Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power. (28. March 1946)

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded. (29. March 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)

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

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

Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11-month occupation. (5. April 1946)

Syria's independence from France is officially recognised. (7. April 1946)

Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors. (8. April 1946)