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| 1946 |
| | | Frederick Ashton choreographs Symphonic Variations, to music by César Franck | |
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| 1946 |
| | | David Lean directs Trevor Howard and and Celia Johnson in Noel Coward's Brief Encounter | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Sonatine, for flute and piano, brings early success to French composer Pierre Boulez | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The Communists become the largest party in Czechoslovakia, winning 38% of the vote in a free election | |
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| 1946 |
| | | A new style of American painting, involving artists such as Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, is given the name Abstract Expressionism | |
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| 1946 |
| | | US pediatrician Benjamin Spock recommends a permissive approach in his Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, set in a down-and-out bar of the kind he had known in his youth, is performed in New York | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Victor Emmanuel III abdicates in favour of his son a month before a referendum on the Italian monarchy | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff makes his debut in Puccini's La Bohème in Reggio Calabria | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The National Insurance Act secures state benefits in Britain for the sick, old and unemployed | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The marriage of George Balanchine and Maria Tallchief unites two major stars of the US ballet scene | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The first of about 20 US tests of atomic and hydrogen bombs is carried out on Bikini Atoll, in the Pacific | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Australian painter Sidney Nolan begins a series of paintings on the theme of Ned Kelly | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Irgun terrorists detonate a bomb in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Robert Lowell's second collection, Lord Weary's Castle, contains 'The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket' and 'Mr Edwards and the Spider' | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Communist leader Enver Hoxha begins nearly 40 years as dictator of Albania | |
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| 1946 |
| | | ENIAC is the world's first general-purpose electronic calculator | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Ezra Pound, charged with treason for his wartime broadcasts, begins twelve years in a US hospital for the criminally insane | |
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| 1946 |
| | | US poet Elizabeth Bishop publishes her first collection of poems, North and South | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Benjamin Britten bases his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra on a theme by Purcell | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Germany's former foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, is sentenced to death at Nuremberg and is hanged | |
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| 1946 |
| | | German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler is acquitted of the charge of collaborating with the Nazis | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The Indochina War breaks out in Vietnam between the French colonial forces and the Vietminh | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Rationing in Britain gets worse rather than better, with bread and potatoes now added to the list | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Titus Groan begins British author Mervyn Peake's trilogy of gothic novels | |
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| 1946 |
| | | British conductor Thomas Beecham founds the third orchestra of his career, calling it the Royal Philharmonic | |
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| 1946 January I |
| | | The Japanese emperor Hirohito renounces his traditional divine status and declares that he is mortal | |
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| 1946 January 5 |
| | | William Joyce, widely known as Lord Haw-Haw, is hanged by the British as a traitor | |
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| 1946 March 5 |
| | | Winston Churchill, in a speech in Fulton, Missouri, expresses the harsh truth that an iron curtain has descended across Europe | |
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| 1946 March 27 |
| | | Twenty-five Japanese defendants are put on trial in Tokyo, charged with war crimes | |
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| 1946 April 18 |
| | | The discredited League of Nations is finally disbanded | |
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| 1946 October 1 |
| | | Twelve of the defendants at Nuremberg are sentenced to death by hanging | |
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| 1946 October 15 |
| | | Hermann Goering, sentenced to death at Nuremberg, kills himself with a potassium cyanide capsule the night before he is due to be hanged | |
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| 1946 December |
| | | John D. Rockefeller Jr. gives land along the East River in New York for a permanent United Nations headquarters | |
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| 1947 |
| | | An election campaign in Poland, marked by violence and the use of terror, brings a Communist landslide | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Peacetime conscription, known as national service, is introduced in Britain for all 18-year-old males | |
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| 1947 |
| | | US scientist Edwin Land demonstrates a new device, the Polaroid camera, to the Optical Society of America | |
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| 1947 |
| | | English author and alcoholic Malcolm Lowry publishes an autobiographical novel, Under the Volcano | |
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| 1947 |
| | | The US Congress passes a National Security Act, setting up the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Capa, Cartier-Bresson and others found Magnum, a cooperative of leading photographers running their own picture agency | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti begins to develop his characteristic style of tense elongated bronze sculpture | |
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| 1947 |
| | | President Truman defines postwar US policy by pledging support for any nation defending itself against Communism | |
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