His first two marriages ended in divorce — to June Ernst from 1935 to 1946, and to Norma Anderson from 1946 to 1969.

* Commonwealth of the Philippines — formed in 1934, and became independent in 1946.

1946 — Legislative Council is established.

* Sections 132 – 138 — From the presidency of Frederick M. Smith ( 1914 – 1946 )

* Sections 139 – 144 — From the presidency of Israel A. Smith ( 1946 – 1958 )

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

His love of strong tea was legendary — he had Fortnum & Mason's tea brought to him in Catalonia and in 1946 published " A Nice Cup of Tea " on how to make it.

* The Post-World War II hyperinflation of Hungary held the record for the most extreme monthly inflation rate ever — 41, 900, 000, 000, 000, 000 % ( 4. 19 × 10 < sup > 16 </ sup >% or 41. 9 quadrillion percent ) for July 1946, amounting to prices doubling every 15. 3 hours.

However, Butler lost 53-41 to Connecticut, shooting a historically low 18. 8 percent from the field — the worst in any NCAA title game and the worst in any NCAA tourney game since Harvard against Ohio State in 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.

Most scholars have agreed with the assessment made by Hans Bethe in 1952, which concluded that by the time Fuchs left the thermonuclear program — the summer of 1946 — there was too little known about the mechanism of the hydrogen bomb for his information to be of any necessary use to the Soviet Union ( the successful Teller-Ulam design was not discovered until 1951 ).

In January 1946 the Allied Control Council set the foundation of the future German economy by putting a cap on German steel production — the maximum allowed was set at about 5, 800, 000 tons of steel a year, equivalent to 25 % of the pre-war production level.

He finally got the chance to record as a leader in 1946, with an occasional group called the Miles Davis Sextet plus Earl Coleman and Ann Hathaway — one of the rare occasions when Davis, by then a member of the groundbreaking Charlie Parker Quintet, can be heard accompanying singers.

German philosopher Ernst Cassirer ( 1946 ) held that Machiavelli simply adopts the stance of a political scientist — a Galileo of politics — in distinguishing between the " facts " of political life and the " values " of moral judgment.

* 1946 — 15. 8 million

Even though Breton by 1946 responded rather negatively to the subject of music with his essay Silence is Golden, later Surrealists, such as Paul Garon, have been interested in — and found parallels to — Surrealism in the improvisation of jazz and the blues.

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.

" From then until its closure in 1946, the press — which was run by the poet's sisters — produced over 70 titles ; 48 of them books by Yeats himself.

In 1946, Reginald Aldworth Daly of Harvard University challenged Darwin's explanation, adjusting it to postulate that the creation of the Moon was caused by an impact rather than centrifugal forces.

Reginald Martinez " Reggie " Jackson ( born May 18, 1946 ) is an American former baseball right fielder who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for four different teams ( 1967 – 1987 ).

* Reginald Smith Brindle Nocturne for Guitar Solo ( 1946 )

Houghton Mifflin issued two boxed three-volume sets in 1946 with color endpapers and illustrations by Reginald Marsh.

Jill, completed in 1944, was finally published in October 1946 by The Fortune Press, whose eccentric proprietor Reginald Caton reportedly accepted the book without reading it.

Brabourne married Penelope Meredith Eastwood ( born 16 April 1953 ), a daughter of Reginald Wray Frank Eastwood, a self-made millionaire who began working life as a butcher at 15 and founded the Angus Steakhouse chain, and wife Marian Elizabeth Hood, on 20 October 1979 at Romsey Abbey, Romsey, in Hampshire, where his parents were married in 1946.

* Reginald Vivian ( August 17, 1943 — January 7, 1946 )

Although the Period takes its name from the Ediacara Hills where geologist Reg Sprigg first discovered fossils of the eponymous biota in 1946, the type section is located in the bed of the Enorama Creek within Brachina Gorge in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, at.

Albert Brooking, who founded the museum in 1926 and provided it with many exhibits, including Indian relics, fossils, and the largest private collection of mounted birds in the US, was buried in the basement in 1946.

By 1940, more than 300 scientific publications described the biota of BCI, and in the " Government Reorganization Act of 1946 ", BCI became a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution.

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.

* former German New Guinea became the Territory of New Guinea ( Australia / United Kingdom ) from 17 December 1920 under a ( at first Military ) Administrator ; after ( wartime ) Japanese / U. S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea ( under Australia, as administrative unit ), until it became part of present Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975

* Singer, Peter ( 1946 -) National Library of Australia, Trove, People and Organisation record for Peter Singer

Returning to Australia in February 1946, he was demobilised on 22 March.

Up to a point, it is autobiographical: The author was born in Germany in 1946 and came to Melbourne, Australia with her parents in 1948.

Surprisingly the first use of a radio interferometer for an astronomical observation was carried out by Payne-Scott, Pawsey and Lindsay McCready on 26 January 1946 using a SINGLE converted radar antenna ( broadside array ) at 200 MHz near Sydney, Australia.

The Australia group laid out the principles of aperture synthesis in their ground-breaking paper submitted in mid 1946 and published in 1947.

" With the English team due to arrive for the 1946 – 47 Ashes series, the media and the public were anxious to know if Bradman would lead Australia.

For instance, from 1919 to 1922 the Nationalist Party of Australia had 35 of the 36 Senate seats, and from 1946 to 1949, the Australian Labor Party had 33 out of the 36 Senate seats.

File: Australia-Stamp-1946 BCOF Wartime Overprint. jpg | Australia, 1946: Surplus kookaburra stamp from 1937 overprinted for use by the British Commonwealth Occupational Force in Japan.

Trans Australia Airlines or TAA, ( renamed Australian Airlines in 1986 ) was one of the two major Australian domestic airlines between its inception in 1946 and its sale to Qantas in May 1996.

* Ilias Kratsas ( born 1946 ) Director of Daihatsu Australia

He gained his honours degree in science from the University of Western Australia in 1946, and joined the teaching staff of the Department in 1947.

Category: 1946 establishments in Australia

In World War II he joined the United States Army and spent March 1944 through February 1946 in the South West Pacific Theater serving in the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Corps in New Guinea, Australia, and the Philippine Islands.

* Constitution Alteration ( Social Services ) Act, 1946 — the fourth amendment to the Constitution of Australia.

* 1946 Davis Cup – 5 – 0 at Kooyong Stadium ( grass ) Melbourne, Australia

Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron Casey KG GCMG CH DSO MC KStJ PC ( 29 August 189017 June 1976 ) was an Australian politician and diplomat, who served as the colonial governor of Bengal between 1944 and 1946 and as the 16th Governor-General of Australia between 7 May 1965 and 30 April 1969.

In 1946 Casey returned to Australia in the hope of being elected to parliament in the 1946 election and becoming the leader of the new Liberal Party that Menzies had formed in 1944, as part of his reorganisation of conservative politics in Australia.