Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

The period from 1946 to 1951 saw continuous full employment and steadily rising living standards, which increased by about 10 % each year.

1946 saw Cessna return to commercial production after the revocation of wartime production restrictions ( L-48 ) with the release of the Model 120 and Model 140.

1946 saw RKO Radio releasing It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra.

During the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 54 ), the Foreign Legion saw its numbers swell due to the incorporation of Second World War veterans who couldn't adapt to civilian life.

The critic Clement Greenberg, with Jackson Pollock, saw Sobel's work there in 1946, and in his essay " American-Type ' Painting " Greenberg cited those works as the first instance of all-over painting he had seen, stating that " Pollock admitted that these pictures had made an impression on him ".

The time from 1946 to 1951 saw the Tanganyika groundnut scheme.

* The first was commissioned in 1929, and saw much action in World War II before being used in atomic bomb tests in 1946.

In 1946, due to a referendum, the monarchy was abolished, and 2 June 1946 saw the birth of the Italian Republic.

1946 saw the completion of 55, 600 new homes ; this rose to 139, 600 in 1947, and 227, 600 in 1948.

The Linggadjati Agreement, brokered by the British and concluded in November 1946, saw the Netherlands recognise the Republic as the de-facto authority over Java, Madura, and Sumatra.

In 1945 / 1946, the city received a share of the national reconstruction budget roughly proportional to its amount of bombing damage ( 26. 6 %), but in successive years Tokyo saw its share dwindle.

1946 saw the famous Army-Notre Dame scoreless tie in Yankee Stadium.

Many saw in de Gaulle, who had not held office since 1946, the only public figure capable of rallying the nation and giving direction to the French government.

The outbreak of the Second World War again saw the suspension of League football, and when official competition resumed in 1946 the Everton team had been split and paled in comparison to the pre-war team.

The year 1946 saw the creation of Rothko ’ s transitional " multiform " paintings.

* The next day, 18 September 1946, saw 27 people losing their lives when a SABENA Douglas DC-4 ( OO-CBG ) crashed 35 km short of Gander Airport, where the aircraft had been planned to land for a refueling stop on the flight from Brussels to New York.

The latter half of the 1940s saw Hobson in perhaps her two most memorable roles: as the adult Estella in David Lean's 1946 adaptation of Great Expectations, and as the refined and virtuous Edith D ' Ascoyne in the 1949 black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets.

Upon his return to Cologne after his release from Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1946, editor Neven du Mont spotted him and complained about the release of prisoners from the camps-he still saw them as " criminals ".

The Communists under Klement Gottwald saw their position strengthened after the 1946 elections but Masaryk stayed on as Foreign Minister.

Kricfalusi calls Clampett his favorite cartoon director and calls The Great Piggy Bank Robbery ( 1946 ) his favorite cartoon: " I saw this thing and it completely changed my life, I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever seen, and I still think it is.

( founded in 1946 and which was one of the founding members of the JSL ) but when Toyota ALW were relegated to regional leagues in 1968, Toyota Motor saw an opportunity to rise at their expense.

The year 1946 saw the debut of air travel in both American and Canadian football, an innovation that resulted in both games being able to expand their geographic reaches.

After his 1946 military discharge he returned to Brooklyn and saw play as a catcher in 1947, joining the team's already solid nucleus of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Carl Furillo ; but the emergence of Roy Campanella made it evident that Hodges had little future behind the plate, and he was shifted by manager Leo Durocher to first base, where his play came to be regarded as exemplary.

* Maria Benz ( 1906 – 1946 ), the birth name of Nusch Éluard, German-born model who married Paul Éluard

Hilbert, the first of two children of Otto and Maria Therese ( Erdtmann ) Hilbert, was born in the Province of Prussia-either in Königsberg ( according to Hilbert's own statement ) or in Wehlau ( known since 1946 as Znamensk ) near Königsberg where his father worked at the time of his birth.

Since Mountbatten had no sons, when he was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma of Romsey in the County of Southampton on 27 August 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in the County of Southampton on 28 October 1947, the Letters Patent were drafted such that in the event he left no sons or issue in the male line, the titles could pass to his daughters, in order of seniority of birth, and to their heirs male respectively.

Italy has been a democratic republic since 2 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by popular referendum ( see birth of the Italian Republic ).

After the birth of the Italian Republic in 1946, Sicily was given special status as an autonomous region.

The United States Census Bureau considers a baby boomer to be someone born during the demographic birth boom between 1946 and 1964.

When Umberto II left Italy after a referendum abolishing the monarchy in 1946 ( see also birth of the Italian Republic ), the Savoy family lived in exile, mostly in Switzerland and Portugal.

The following year ( 1946 ), Juliana donated another 20, 500 bulbs, with the request that a portion of these be planted at the grounds of the Ottawa Civic Hospital where she had given birth to Margriet.

* The Baby Boom Generation is the generation that was born following World War II, from 1946 up to 1964, a time that was marked by an increase in birth rates.

On May 9, 1946 Frances gave birth to the future actress Candice Bergen, whose first performances were on Bergen's radio show.

After Delius's death Beecham continued to promote his works ; a second festival was held in 1946, and a third ( after Beecham's death ) at Bradford in 1962, to celebrate the centenary of Delius's birth.

" John Rewald, one of the first professional art historians to focus on the birth of early modern art, limited the scope to the years between 1886 and 1892 in his pioneering publication on Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin ( 1956 ): Rewald considered it to continue his History of Impressionism ( 1946 ), and pointed out that a " subsequent volume dedicated to the second half of the post-impressionist period "— Post-Impressionism: From Gauguin to Matisse — was to follow, extending the period covered to other artistic movements derived from Impressionism and confined to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Fiona Stanley, AC ( born 1 August 1946 ) is an Australian epidemiologist noted for her public health work, and her research into child and maternal health, and birth disorders such as cerebral palsy.

Rogers and Arline had a son, Roy Jr. (" Dusty ") in 1946, but Arline died of complications from the birth a few days afterward on November 3.

Eve joined him in November 1945 and gave birth to Christopher on 10 May 1946 and Rionagh in December 1947.

From 1900 to 1946 the U. S. Census Bureau designed standard birth certificates, collected vital statistics on a national basis, and generally sought to improve the accuracy of vital statistics.

The United Kingdom has a series of four national birth cohort studies, the first three spaced apart by 12 years: the 1946 National Survey of Health and Development, the 1958 National Child Development Study, the 1970 British Cohort Study, and the Millennium Cohort Study, begun much more recently in 2000.

This Italian tricolour, defaced with the armorial bearings of the former Royal House of Savoy was the first national flag and lasted in that form for 85 years until the birth of the Italian Republic in 1946.

Kirriemuir was the home town of Bon Scott from AC / DC from his birth in nearby Forfar in 1946 until his family emigrated to Australia in 1952.

In 1946, with the birth of the United Nations, the International Court of Justice was established as her principal judicial organ.

Their youngest daughter, Aung San Chit, born in September 1946, died on 26th sep 1946 the same day Aung San got into Governor " s Executive council, a few days after her birth.

The marriage of Corll's parents was marred by frequent quarrelling and the couple divorced in 1946, four years after the birth of their younger son, Stanley.