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* 1946 – Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
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* 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
1946 and Operation
* 1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
In June 1946, following instances of Jewish sabotage, the British launched Operation Agatha, arresting 2700 Jews, including the leadership of the Jewish Agency, whose headquarters were raided.
* 1946 – Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia was established by the British military administration's " Operation Marriage " on 23 August 1946.
Operation Coronet, one of two parts of Operation Downfall, was the planned land invasion of Tokyo in March of 1946 by the United States.
* was a battleship, commissioned in 1916, damaged in the attack on Pearl Harbor, repaired and served during World War II, used as a target for Operation Crossroads after the war in 1946, and finally sunk for practice in 1948
File: Latrun detention camp. jpg | Zionist leaders, arrested in Operation Agatha, in detention in Latrun ( l-r ): David Remez, Moshe Sharett, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Dov Yosef, Mr. Shenkarsky, David Hacohen, and Haim Alferin ( 1946 )
Prospective Operation Crossroads target ships and support ships at Pearl Harbor on February 27, 1946.
The Navy won the contest to design and control the tests, and on January 11, 1946, Admiral William H. P. Blandy was appointed head of Army / Navy Joint Task Force One ( JTF-1 ), newly created to conduct the tests which he named Operation Crossroads.
Operation Keelhaul was carried out in Northern Italy by British and American forces to repatriate Soviet Armed Forces POWs of the Nazis to the Soviet Union between August 14, 1946 and May 9, 1947.
The Jewish Agency was raided by British troops in 1946 under Operation Agatha in retaliation for a number of attacks against British forces, however the Haganah did not attack British forces directly.
Later, in spring 1946, Operation Coronet was the planned invasion of the Kantō Plain, near Tokyo, on the Japanese island of Honshū.
Operation Coronet, the invasion of Honshū at the Kantō Plain south of the capital, was to begin on " Y-Day ", which was scheduled for March 1, 1946.
However, when the " Camp Overcast " name of the scientists ' quarters became locally-known, the program was renamed Operation Paperclip in March 1946.
Similarly, Georg Rickhey, who came to the United States under Operation Paperclip in 1946, was returned to Germany to stand trial at the Mittelbau-Dora war crimes trial in 1947, was acquitted, and returned to the United States in 1948, eventually becoming a U. S. citizen.
Later in 1946, the Operation Crossroads nuclear bomb tests were described as having a " cauliflower " cloud, but a reporter present also spoke of " the mushroom, now the common symbol of the atomic age.
Scientists observing the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in 1946 at Bikini Atoll named that transitory cloud a " Wilson cloud " because of its similarity to a Wilson cloud chamber ; the cloud chamber uses condensation from a rapid pressure drop to mark the tracks of electrically charged subatomic particles.
In early 1946, as part of the Puerto Rican industrialization effort known as Operation Bootstrap, a design competition was held to select the design of a new hotel.
Operation Crossroads ( Event Baker ), conducted at Bikini Atoll ( 1946 ).
In 1946, as part of Operation Crossroads, the American landing ship demonstrated the potential of explosives ships containing nuclear weapons.
Neither country had very many atomic weapons to spare at first, and so testing was relatively infrequent ( when the U. S. used two weapons for Operation Crossroads in 1946, they were detonating over 20 % of their current arsenal ).
" Baker Shot ", part of Operation Crossroads, a nuclear test by the United States at Bikini Atoll in 1946
In December, the brigade was part of Operation Pounce, a mission to disarm the remaining Japanese forces in Java until they could be relieved by Dutch forces in April 1946.
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