In June 1946, following instances of Jewish sabotage, the British launched Operation Agatha, arresting 2700 Jews, including the leadership of the Jewish Agency, whose headquarters were raided.

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.

Méndez Fleitas was unpopular with Colorado Party stalwarts and the army, who feared that he was trying to build a following as did his hero, Juan Domingo Perón, Argentina's president from 1946 to 1955.

* 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.

* Salvatore Contorno ( born 1946 ) started to collaborate in October 1984, following the example of Buscetta.

The 1946 act was passed in the aftermath of World War II, when it was feared that demobilization would result in a depression, as it had following World War I in the Depression of 1920 – 21, while the 1978 act was passed following the 1973 – 75 recession and in the midst of continuing high inflation.

Section 51 ( xxiiiA ) of the Commonwealth Constitution was inserted following the successful referendum of 1946.

He has lived for most of his life in exile – following a tightly contested referendum in 1946 in which a majority of the Italian people voted for Italy to become a republic.

After gaining Philippine independence from colonial rule following World War II in 1946, the Visayas region established its community and re-formed its government, producing several notable presidents coming from the Visayas region.

He returned to the Moors in 1946, following his military service.

In 1946 he had also published a paper in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, entitled " Archaeology and Anthropology " which argued that the two disciplines must be used in tandem, something that would be widely accepted in the decades following his death.

Following the Iran crisis of 1946, Harry Truman declared what became known as the Truman Doctrine in 1947, promising to contribute financial aid to Greece and Turkey following World War II, in the hope that this would impede the advancement of Communism into Western Europe.

He rose to be district chief, but left the movement after just one year, following the return of the French to southern Vietnam in 1946 to contest Việt Minh control.

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.

After the British warned that they could no longer help Greece, and following Prime Minister Tsaldaris's visit to Washington in December 1946 to ask for American assistance, the U. S. State Department formulated a plan.

* 1946 A small oilfield is discovered northeast of Fort McKavett but abandoned the following year.

* 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.

While enthusiasm for multinational federalism in Europe incrementally led, over the following decades, to the formation of the European Union, the onset of the Cold War ( 1946 – 1991 ) eliminated the prospects of any progress towards federation with a more global scope.

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 following season, 1946, the club returned to its traditional Moors nickname and remained in the league until it disbanded after the 1952 season.

* Bob McBride ( 1922-2011 )-Member of the University of Notre Dame 1946 national championship football team and decorated World War II veteran, receiving three battle stars, a purple heart and the presidential unit citation following the Battle of the Bulge.

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The first Stampede Queen, Patsy Rodgers, was selected in 1946 while the princesses were first chosen the following year.

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

" He went to Sayre Elementary School and Steinmetz High School, then served as a writer for a military newspaper in the U. S. Army from 1944 to 1946.

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.

* 1946 Railways and British military airfields were attacked several times.

* 1946 – King David Hotel bombing: a Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.

" 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.

In 1956, under his direction, St-Laurent's Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson, helped solve the Suez Crisis in 1956 between Great Britain, France, Israel and Egypt, bringing forward St-Laurent's 1946 views on a U. N. military force in the form of the United Nations Emergency Force ( UNEF ) or peacekeeping.

* 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

* 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

His memoir of the first days of World War II, Strange Defeat, written in 1940 but not published until 1946, blamed the French military establishment, along with her social and political culture, for the sudden total military defeat and helped after the war to neutralize the traumatic memory of France's failure and to build a new French identity.

* 1903 – Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German military officer and senior Nazi ( d. 1946 )

* 1896 – Ye Ting, Chinese military leader ( d. 1946 )

Category: 1946 in military history

* 1946 – Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U. S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.

After World War II, military frogmen of all countries continued to use rebreathers ( since they do not make bubbles and thus are not visible from the surface ) and Air Liquide started selling commercially the Cousteau-Gagnan regulator as of 1946 under the name of scaphandre Cousteau-Gagnan or CG45 (" C " for Cousteau, " G " for Gagnan and 45 for a new 1945 patent ).

** Charles Oman, British military historian ( d. 1946 )

The term think tank itself, however, originally referred to organizations that offered military advice — most notably the RAND Corporation, founded originally in 1946 as an offshoot of Douglas Aircraft, and which became an independent corporation in 1948.

In late 1946, as France engaged in épuration légale, the French military authorities determined that Heidegger should be forbidden from teaching or participating in any university activities because of his association with the Nazi Party.

The state of North Rhine-Westphalia was established by the British military administration's " Operation Marriage " on 23 August 1946.

After profiting from Scotch Tape in the 1930s, 3M produced military materiel during WWII, and by 1946 had developed the first practical vinyl electrical tape.

President Harry S. Truman signed the McMahon / Atomic Energy Act on August 1, 1946, transferring the control of atomic energy from military to civilian hands, effective from January 1, 1947.

The majority of protected concrete structures in the U. S. military are derived from standards set forth in Fundamentals of Protective Design, published in 1946 ( US Army Corps of Engineers ).

Hirst persuaded the British military to order 20, 000 of the cars, and by March 1946 the factory was producing 1, 000 cars a month, which Hirst said " was the limit set by the availability of materials ".

The Netherlands, however, was critically weakened from World War II in Europe and did not return as a significant military force until early 1946.