Al Capp drew his own autobiography, the 34-page Al Capp by Li ' l Abner ( 1946 ), distributed to returning WWII amputee veterans.

More members joined by mid-May 1946, including Harold Gray ( Little Orphan Annie ) and the Society ’ s first animator, Paul Terry, followed in the summer by letterer Frank Engli, Bela Zaboly ( Popeye ), Al Capp ( Li ’ l Abner ) and Ray Bailey ( Bruce Gentry ).

After weeks of teasing his readers by hiding Lena's face behind " censored " stickers and strategically placed dialogue balloons, Capp invited fans to draw Lena in a famous nationwide contest in 1946.

In 1946 Capp persuaded six of the most popular radio personalities ( Frank Sinatra, Kate Smith, Danny Kaye, Bob Hope, Fred Waring and Smilin ' Jack Smith ) to broadcast a song he'd written for Daisy Mae: ( Li ' l Abner ) Don't Marry That Girl !!

— by Al Capp & Sam H. Stept ( 1946 ) Barton Music Corp.

* Al Capp by Li ' l Abner — Public service giveaway issued by the Red Cross ( 1946 )

A musical version of the popular comic strip Li ' l Abner was first planned in 1946, with the book to be written by the comic strip's author, Al Capp.

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.

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.

The Marina Militare, the Italian Navy, was created in 1946 as the Navy of the Italian Republic, from the Regia Marina.

The International Refugee Organization ( IRO ) was founded on April 20, 1946 to deal with the massive refugee problem created by World War II.

* 1946 – Popular Canadian-American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race ; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.

* 1946 – The National Basketball Association is created, with eleven original teams.

" The variety was created by Sawata Aoki in 1946 from wild carp he caught in 1921.

* 1946 – UMNO is created.

After DeBeck died on Veteran's Day, 1942, Mary DeBeck remarried ( as Mary Bergman ) and created the DeBeck Award in 1946.

In January 1946, President Truman created the Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ) which was the direct precursor to the CIA.

King's government introduced the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1946, which officially created the notion of " Canadian citizens ".

In 1946 a new voivodeship was created and named the Olsztyn Voivodeship, which encompassed entire Warmia and Masurian counties.

In September 1946, the General Electric Company assumed management of the Hanford Works under the supervision of the newly created Atomic Energy Commission.

It was rebuilt and reopened on 11 May 1946, with a memorable concert conducted by Arturo Toscanini — twice La Scala's principal conductor and an associate of the composers Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini — with a soprano solo by Renata Tebaldi, which created a sensation.

In 1946, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) was created with the purpose of advocating and representing scientific issues and collaboration among environmental NGOs.

Before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) was created, nuclear regulation was the responsibility of the AEC, which Congress first established in the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.

Between the months of December 1946 and January 1947, Patel worked with civil servant V. P. Menon on the latter's suggestion for a separate dominion of Pakistan created out of Muslim-majority provinces.

Monroe's 1946 to 1948 band, which featured banjo prodigy Earl Scruggs, singer-guitarist Lester Flatt, fiddler Chubby Wise and bassist Howard Watts ( also known as " Cedric Rainwater ")— sometimes called " the original bluegrass band "— created the definitive sound and instrumental configuration that remains a model to this day.

* 1946 – Atomic Energy Act PL 79-585 ( created the Atomic Energy Commission )

Its advocacy had grown partly out of the standards of utility furniture created during the war ( Gordon Russell, the Director of the CoID, had been Chairman of the Utility Furniture Design Panel ) and partly out of the CoID's Britain Can Make It exhibition of 1946.

The Việt Minh, who were short on modern military knowledge, created a military school in Tỉnh Quảng Ngãi in June 1946.

The Newark campus was formerly the University of Newark, which merged into the Rutgers system in 1946, and the Camden campus was created in 1950 from the College of South Jersey and the South Jersey Law School.

In early 1946 the Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ) was created, reporting directly to the National Intelligence Authority ( NIA ).

In 1946 the incoming Director General wrote of the employment created and the help of the Commission towards a solution of ‘ one of the baffling social problems of our time … to draw men and their families “ back to the land ” and to make the attraction permanent ’, especially through the smallholdings policy.

* 1946 – Stan Winston, American special effects artist, makeup artist, and director ( d. 2008 )

In October 1946, in its first special session for 75 years, the Vatican excommunicated Tito and the Yugoslav government for sentencing Stepinac to 16 years in prison on charges of assisting Ustaše terror and of supporting forced conversions of Serbs to Catholicism.

* 1946 – Dennis Muren, American special effects artist

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

In 1946 he expanded his theses, with a special interest in the relation between electoral systems and party systems.

In 1946, as chairman of a special committee to prepare a plan for the international control of atomic energy, he wrote the Acheson – Lilienthal report.

During World War II, The World Almanac could boast that it was read by GIs all over the world: between 1944 and 1946, at the request of the U. S. Government, The World Almanac had special print runs of 100, 000 to 150, 000 copies for distribution to the armed forces.

The 1946 special joint committee's recommended national flag

In March 1946, British Labour Party MP Richard Crossman gave the following description of activity at the hotel: " private detectives, Zionist agents, Arab sheiks, special correspondents, and the rest, all sitting around about discreetly overhearing each other.

The special cities of Seoul and P ' yŏngyang were formed in 1946.

The post-communist land reform of the 1990s was accompanied by special land privatization legislation, as Albania was the only country outside the former Soviet Union that had nationalized all agricultural land ( in stages between 1946 and 1976 ).

Earlier, in 1946, Alan Turing wrote a letter to Ashby suggesting that Ashby use Turing's Automatic Computing Engine ( ACE ) for his experiments instead of building a special machine.

He was reelected in the 1946 House election to the 80th Congress and on the same date was elected to the United States Senate in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John H. Bankhead II, for the term ending on January 3, 1949.

Seoul — South Korea's largest city and national capital — is located in the heart of the province, but has been separately administered as a provincial-level special city since 1946.

On January 19, 1946, MacArthur issued a special proclamation ordering the establishment of an International Military Tribunal for the Far East ( IMTFE ).

The bell was inscribed with the words " California State Normal School, A. D. 1881 ," and would sound on special occasions until 1946 when the college obtained new chimes.

The 500 cc formula originally evolved in 1946 from low-cost " special " racing organised by enthusiasts in Bristol, England, just before the Second World War ; British motorsport after the war picked up slowly, partly due to petrol rationing which continued for a number of years and home-built 500 cc cars engines were intended to be accessible to the " impecunious enthusiast ".

The Mildenhall find was placed on show in its entirety in the British Museum as soon as the necessary registration and conservation work had been completed following its acquisition in 1946, and it has remained a permanent feature of the museum's Romano-British gallery ever since, with occasional loans of some pieces to special exhibitions both within the museum and elsewhere.

In October 1946 the Soviets transferred the German missile engineers working for them to a special research facility near Moscow, where they were forced to remain until the mid-1950s.

With the War now over, A & M held a special Victory Homecoming Muster on Easter morning in 1946.

Dworshak defeated state senator George E. Donart in a 1946 special election to complete the same Senate term.

He served from October 8, 1945 to November 5, 1946, when a special election was held to choose a successor to fill the remainder of the term.

A primary mission for Kirtland Field was recorded in the September 1946 narrative history: “ provide aerial and ground functioning testing facilities and conduct functional tests on all equipment and materiel related to the use of special weapons and radioactive materials ”.

Made to oppose anti-Semitism and racial prejudice at the end of World War II, it received an Honorary Academy Award and a special Golden Globe award in 1946.