Oil was discovered at Burgan in 1938 but it was not until 1946 that the first crude oil was shipped.

In 1946, Mike Benedum began wildcatting in Upton County and opened up what would become known as the Benedum Oil Field.

* 1946-1991 Oil is discovered in Kent County in 1946.

* 1946 Oil discovered in the county.

The park in Oil City is named for Earl Williamson, who served for forty years on the Caddo Parish police jury ( 1933 – 1972 and again from 1979 – 1980 and as mayor of Vivian from 1938 – 1946 and again from 1962-1966.

In 1946 Wood River Oil Co. ( a precursor company to Koch Industries ) purchased Rock Island Oil and Refining Co. As a part of the transaction, it acquired a crude-oil pipeline in Oklahoma.

Thus in 1943, it was created the National Power Company (); in 1945, the National Oil Company (); and in 1946, the Pacific Steel Company (), which opened the Huachipato steelworks next to the port of Talcahuano.

When Dean A. McGee ( 1904-1989 ), a former chief geologist for Phillips Petroleum, joined the firm in 1946, it changed its name to Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Incorporated.

The USA and UK-owned Kuwait Oil Company began commercial oil production at Burgan in 1946.

After serving as, first ensign and then lieutenant commander in the United States Navy from 1942 – 1945, he returned to Texas in 1946 and worked as a field geologist for Humble Oil, now known as Exxon, U. S. A.

Oil Bowl was a college football bowl game played at Rice Field in Houston, Texas, in 1944, 1946, and 1947.

In 1946, Phillips purchased the Utah-based Wasatch Oil Co., bringing the Phillips 66 brand to the northern Rocky Mountain states and the far eastern portions of Oregon and Washington.

1946 to Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Incorporated.

He purchased Kingston Commercial Oil and Gas in 1946 and renamed it Sooner Oil Company of which he was president.

By 1928, He organized the Harper-Turner Oil Company and established the 10, 000 acre Turner Ranch at Sulphur, Oklahoma ; but he maintained a residence in Oklahoma City where he served on the Board of Education from 1939 to 1946.

In 1946, he established Kirloskar Electric Company and Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited at Bangalore and Pune respectively.

About 90 % of the world's extractable amber is still located in that area, which became the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia in 1946.

* 1946 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.

* 1946 – The last meeting of the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations, is held.

* 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.

* 1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.

* 1946 – Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.

It is quite conventional in principle in past and present computing machines of the most varied types, e. g. desk multipliers, standard IBM counters, more modern relay machines, the ENIAC " ( Goldstine and von Neumann, 1946 ; p. 98 in Bell and Newell 1971 ).

William Jefferson " Bill " Clinton ( born William Jefferson Blythe III ; August 19, 1946 ) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Most is from the U. S. military occupation of the island from 1942 to 1946.

Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

Discovered in 1946 by Joshua Lederberg and Edward Tatum, conjugation is a mechanism of horizontal gene transfer as are transformation and transduction although these two other mechanisms do not involve cell-to-cell contact.

* The character of Dr. Hesselius is featured in a Mutual Broadcasting Network radio drama entitled " The Shadow People ", an episode from The Hall of Fantasy series ( 1946 – 1947, 1949 – 1952, 1952, 1953 ).

1946 — Legislative Council is established.

John Craig Venter ( born October 14, 1946 ) is an American biologist and entrepreneur.

David Keith Lynch ( born January 20, 1946 ) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor.

In Jean Cocteau's 1946 film La Belle et la Bête it is Diana's power which has transformed and imprisoned the beast.

* 1946 – The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund ( UNICEF ) is established.

Dolly Rebecca Parton ( born January 19, 1946 ) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress, and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music.

* 1946 – The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.

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.

This is one of the most enduring titles, Caesar and its transliterations appeared in every year from the time of Caesar Augustus to Tsar Symeon II of Bulgaria's removal from the throne in 1946.

The official band logo, designed in 1976 by artist Kosh, was first seen on their 1976 album A New World Record and is based on a 1946 Wurlitzer jukebox model 4008 speaker.

This is material from Alan Lomax ’ s independent archive, begun in 1946, which has been digitized and offered by the Association for Cultural Equity.

Opinion is divided on the noir status of several of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers from the era ; at least four qualify by consensus: Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Notorious ( 1946 ), Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), and The Wrong Man ( 1956 ).

* 1946 – Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.