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

By 1946, as the growing fellowship quarreled over structure, purpose, and authority, as well as finances and publicity, Wilson began to form and promote what became known as AA's Twelve Traditions, guidelines for an altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limited AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level while shunning publicity.

August A. Busch Jr. became president of Anheuser-Busch in 1946 and began the creation of a national network of breweries.

* Commonwealth of the Philippines — formed in 1934, and became independent in 1946.

Diplomatic relations between the Egyptian and Jordanian government existed since Jordan became independent in 1946.

The relationship between England and FIFA became strained and this resulted in their departure from FIFA in 1928, before rejoining in 1946.

Arden's quick wit made her a natural talent for radio ; she became a regular on Danny Kaye's short-lived but memorably zany comedy-variety show in 1946, which also featured swing bandleader Harry James and gravel-voiced character actor-comedian Lionel Stander.

French Guiana became an overseas département of France on 19 March 1946.

In 1946 the colony of Guadeloupe became an overseas department of France, and in 1974 it became an administrative center.

In 1946, another of Zahir Shah's uncles, Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan, became Prime Minister and began an experiment allowing greater political freedom, but reversed the policy when it went further than he expected.

In 1903, Letchworth became the world's first garden city and Stevenage became the first town to redevelop under the New Towns Act 1946.

Hanover was in the United Kingdom zone of occupation of Germany after the war, and became part of the new state ( Land ) of Lower Saxony in 1946.

The ILO became the first specialized agency of the United Nations system after the demise of the League in 1946.

In 1946, the ILO became the first specialized agency of the newly-formed United Nations.

In 1944 Thuku founded and was first chairman of the multi-tribal Kenya African Study Union ( KASU ), which in 1946 became the Kenya African Union ( KAU ).

After the demise of the League, the ILO became an agency of the United Nations in 1946.

The principal Allies in the Second World War ( the UK, the USSR, France, the US, and the Republic of China ) became permanent members of the UN Security Council in 1946.

After 13 December 1946, it became a United Nations Trust Territory, remaining under Belgian administration until the separate nations of Rwanda and Burundi gained independence on 1 July 1962.

It became a United Nations Trust Territory on 11 December 1946, and was granted internal self-rule on 1 May 1961.

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

* 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

It eventually became the independent Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan ( later Jordan ) on 25 May 1946.

In 1946, van Vogt and his first wife, Edna Mayne Hull, were co-Guests of Honor at the fourth World Science Fiction Convention.

* 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

* 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.

György Sándor was the soloist in the first performance of the Third Piano Concerto on February 8, 1946.

His first two marriages ended in divorce — to June Ernst from 1935 to 1946, and to Norma Anderson from 1946 to 1969.

The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.

The first Blue Angel Flight Demonstration Squadron ( 1946 – 1947 ), assembled in front of one of their F6F Hellcat s ( l to r ): Lt. Al Taddeo, Solo ; Lt.

" The team's first demonstration before Navy officials took place on 10 May 1946 and was met with enthusiastic approval.

After World War II, the French Constitution of 1946 inaugurated the first of a series of reforms that led eventually to complete independence for all French territories in western and equatorial Africa.

The squad included seven future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Browns ' first regular-season game took place September 6, 1946 at Cleveland Municipal Stadium against the Miami Seahawks before a record crowd of 60, 135.

Since these first accounts, Bulgarian authorities had organized several population censuses: 1892, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1920, 1926, 1934, 1946, 1956, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1992, 2001 and 2011.

The first population census after the independence in 1946 was taken in 1952.

* Shirley Chisholm ( 1946 ), first African-American U. S. Congresswoman, 1968 – 1982.

The first native seeds were planted with the publication of The Canadian Unitarian in Ottawa from 1940 to 1946, a small newsletter distributed with the newsletters of Canadian churches.

Atkins made his first appearance at the Opry in 1946 as a member of Foley's band.

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.

* 1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.

* 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.

Although Walter Winterbottom was appointed as England's first ever full-time manager in 1946, the team was still picked by a committee until Alf Ramsey took over in 1963.

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.

Such films include Wolfgang Staudte's Die Mörder sind unter uns ( The Murderers are among us ) ( 1946 ), the first film made in post-war Germany, and Wolfgang Liebeneiner's Liebe 47 ( Love 47 ) ( 1949 ), an adaptation of Wolfgang Borchert's play Draußen vor der Tür.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).