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

In 1946 the FCC's decision to use Armstrong's FM system as the standard for NTSC television sound gave Armstrong another chance at royalty payments.

In 1946, Cousteau and Tailliez showed the film " Épaves " to Admiral Lemonnier, and the admiral gave them the responsibility of setting up the Groupement de Recherches Sous-marines ( GRS ) ( Underwater Research Group ) of the French Navy in Toulon.

In March 1946 the IOC, through a postal vote, gave the summer Games to London and the winter competition to St Moritz.

In 1946 Piazzolla formed his, Orquesta Típica, which although having a similar formation to other tango orchestras of the day, gave him his first opportunity to experiment with his own approach to the orchestration and musical content of tango.

MacArthur gave the authors less than a week to complete the draft, which was presented to surprised Japanese officials on 13 February 1946.

Cárdenas ' successor Manuel Ávila Camacho gave the party its present name in 1946.

( Bill Lear had tried to create an endless-loop wire recorder in the 1940s, but gave up in 1946, even though endless-loop 8 mm film cartridges were already in use for him to copy from.

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.

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

On January 4, 1946, the New York State Censor Board banned Scarlet Street entirely, relying on the statute that gave it power to censor films that were " obscene, indecent, immoral, inhuman, sacrilegious " or whose exhibition " would tend to corrupt morals or incite to crime.

In 1946 Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton, gave Lyme Park to the National Trust.

Rothko introduced him to Peggy Guggenheim, who gave him a solo exhibition at her Art of This Century gallery in early 1946.

In 1946 the weakened columns gave way in a significant collapse and the quarry was deemed unsafe and closed immediately.

On 27 February and 4 March 1946, Prince Higashikuni gave interviews to the Yomiuri-Hochi and New York Times newspapers in which he claimed that many members of the imperial family had approved Emperor Hirohito ’ s abdication, with Prince Takamatsu serving as regent until Crown Prince Akihito came of age.

The public gave support to this idea at two public meetings in May 1946 but concerns were also raised about who would come, where the event would be held and how the event would be financed.

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

An official commission in 1946 recognized his long lasting opposition to the Nazis and the help he gave to the Résistance and let him totally free of any charge.

The league gave Peto until the end of the 1946 – 47 season to find a suitable arena.

When word got out in the media ( February, 1946 ) that Soviets operated a spy network in Canada in which Canadians gave classified information to the Soviet government it created a great stir.

The lack of visibility with her constituents may have been the primary reason that she lost the 1944 election. Roosevelt then appointed her to the Employees ' Compensation Commission, and in 1946 President Harry Truman gave her a post on the Employees ' Compensation Appeals Board, where she served until suffering a stroke in January 1950.

The beam engine, which was probably second-hand in 1803, gave good service and lasted until the closure of the canal in 1946.

Two subsequent elections in 1946, the first another for the Constitutional National Assembly, the second for the National Assembly of the new Fourth Republic – now the lower house of a bicameral system – gave very similar results.

The Civil Aviation Act 1946 furthermore provided for nationalisation of private, independent British scheduled airlines and gave BEA a legal monopoly as the sole short-haul scheduled British airline.

After appearing in over 300 major league games, Rip Sewell gave up only one career home run off the Eephus, to Ted Williams in the 1946 All-Star Game.

The New Towns Act of 1946 set up development corporations to construct new towns, while the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 instructed county councils to prepare development plans and also provided compulsory purchase powers.

In 1946 the government set up a Royal Commission on the press which eventually led to the Press Council in 1953.

In the five years immediately after the war, Essendon won 3 premierships ( 1946, 1949, 1950 ) and were runners up twice ( 1947, 1948 ).

Orwell returned to London in late 1946 and picked up his literary journalism again.

On his return to Hollywood in the spring of 1946, MGM had nothing lined up and used him in yet another B-movie: Living in a Big Way.

Sweeping up the banknotes from the street after the Hungarian pengő was replaced in 1946.

The unified Jewish resistance movement broke up in July 1946, after Etzel bombed the British Military Headquarters in the King David Hotel killing 92 people.

Alexander thus chose to retire from the army and take up the new position, and, in anticipation of his viceregal posting, was on 26 January 1946 appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.

Iran barely maintained its independence throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, being carved up into spheres of influence, invaded in 1917 and 1941, occupied between 1941 – 1946, subjected to Soviet attempts to create a separate Azerbaijan socialist republic in 1946, and having its government overthrown in 1921 and again in 1953.

In 1946, the States of Jersey drew up plans for change following the German Occupation, which were examined by a Committee of the Privy Council.

He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis.

" In 1945 she married her second husband, Huntington D Sheldon, at the close of the war on her assignment in Paris and she was discharged from the military in 1946, at which time she set up a small business in partnership with her husband.

* 1946 – Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.

They were still primarily a home-built proposition ; a 1946 Popular Science article details a slingshot builder and hunter using home-built slingshots made from forked dogwood sticks to take small game at ranges of up to 30 ' with No. 0 lead buckshot (. 32 in., 8 mm diameter ).

At the same time parts of the erstwhile maritime police were reorganized into the new Grenzpolizei-See ( Border Police-Sea ), to guard the sea frontiers, and incorporated into the Deutsche Grenzpolizei ( German Border Police ) that had been set up in 1946.

" The Air Force set up the RAND Corporation in 1946 to think about air power.

* North American Company, an electric utility holding company, broken up by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) in 1946.

The UNCHR was established on 10 December 1946 at the first meeting of ECOSOC, and was one of the first two " Functional Commissions " set up within the early UN structure ( the other being the Commission on the Status of Women ).

* Baby and Child Care ( 1946, with revisions up to eighth edition, 2004 )

The first serious investigation of using a gas turbine in cars was in 1946 when two engineers, Robert Kafka and Robert Engerstein of Carney Associates, a New York engineering firm, came up with the concept where a unique compact turbine engine design would provide power for a rear wheel drive car.

The International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) is an international body set up by the terms of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling ( ICRW ), which was signed in Washington, D. C., United States, on 2 December 1946 to " provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry ".

Republican sources reported 8, 000 deaths up to January 1946 in the defence of Jakarta, but they could not hold the city.