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* 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.
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* 1886 – Walter Edward Dandy, American neurosurgeon and scientist ( d. 1946 )
* 1946 – Ed O ' Neill, American actor
* 1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, English politician
* 1893 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister ( d. 1946 )
* 1946 – Lee Bollinger, American lawyer and educator
* 1946 – Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
* 1946 – Don Schollander, American swimmer
* 1946 – Bill Plympton, American animator
* 1946 – Tony Howard, Barbadian cricketer
* 1946 – Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist and composer ( UK, The Tony Williams Lifetime, HoBoLeMa, and Tempest )
* 1946 – Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian, actor, and musician ( The Spiders )
* 1946 – Jim Kiick, American football player
* 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer and inventor ( d. 1946 )
The Ashes resumed after the war when England toured in 1946 – 47, and as in 1920 – 21, found that Australia had made the best post-war recovery.
* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )
* Party of Labour of Albania, the sole legal political party in Albania during communist rule ( 1946 – 1991 )
* 1946 – Noah Beery, Sr., American actor ( b. 1882 )
* 1991 – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician ( b. 1946 )
* 2004 – Paul Atkinson, British guitarist ( The Zombies ) ( b. 1946 )
* 2004 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress ( b. 1946 )
* 1946 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( King Crimson and Bad Company ) ( d. 2006 )
* 1946 – Rick Coonce, American drummer ( The Grass Roots ) ( d. 2011 )
* 1946 – Richard O.
* 1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
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* 1946 – Rhoma Irama, Indonesian musician, King of Dangdut
Reports made on tambalacoque seed germination by Hill ( 1941 ) and King ( 1946 ) found the seeds germinated without abrading.
** King David Hotel bombing, attack carried out by the Irgun in 1946
* 1946 – The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
* World's longest serving current head of state: King Rama IX of Thailand ( since 9 June 1946: ()).
The unified Jewish resistance movement broke up in July 1946, after Etzel bombed the British Military Headquarters in the King David Hotel killing 92 people.
He was in 1946 appointed as governor general by George VI, king of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King, to replace the Earl of Athlone as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Vincent Massey in 1952.
Further, as a reward for his leadership in North Africa and Italy, Alexander, along with a number of other prominent British Second World War military leaders, was elevated to the peerage on 1 March 1946 by King George VI ; he was created Viscount Alexander of Tunis and Errigal in the County of Donegal.
It was then announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada on 21 March 1946 that George VI had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and signet, approved the recommendation of his prime minister, Mackenzie King, to appoint Alexander as his representative.
The Viscount and Viscountess Alexander of Tunis are greeted by Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King | Mackenzie King upon the viceregal couple's arrival in Ottawa, 12 April 1946
Aftermath of the King David Hotel bombing, 1946
* July 26, 1946 The bombing of British administrative headquarters at the King David Hotel, killing 91 people — 28 British, 41 Arab, 17 Jewish, and 5 others.
* 1946 – King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand.
* 1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
* The Rubaiyat was quoted in the 1946 King Vidor Western film Duel in the Sun, which starred Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones: " Oh threats of hell and hopes of paradise!
Many of these hit records were issued on new independent record labels, such as Savoy ( founded 1942 ), King ( founded 1943 ), Imperial ( founded 1945 ), Specialty ( founded 1946 ), Chess ( founded 1947 ), and Atlantic ( founded 1948 ).
Even as late as 1946, when both countries gained independence, King Abdallah did not abandon his plan to become king of Syria.
* 2006 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and bass player ( Bad Company and King Crimson ) ( b. 1946 )
The young King Ananda Mahidol ( Rama VIII ) died in 1946 under somewhat mysterious circumstances, the official explanation being that he shot himself by accident while cleaning his gun.
King Bhumibol — who has been on the throne since 1946 — commands enormous popular respect and moral authority, which he has used on occasion to attempt to resolve political crises that have threatened national stability.
The play's respectability was assured in 1946 when a charity performance was attended by King George VI.
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