His sister Marjorie died of kidney disease in May and shortly after, on 22 May 1946, Orwell set off to live on the Isle of Jura.

From 1944 to 1946, during World War II and shortly afterward, he served in the United States Army.

As late as 1946, shortly before his death, Keynes declared eugenics to be " the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists.

In 1946, shortly after Val married Aleta, she was kidnapped by the Viking raider Ulfran.

* Freddie Mercury ( 1946 – 1991 ) of rock band Queen lived in Feltham 1964-1968 ; his parents were residents until shortly before he died

" It seems that shortly before the General's death 1946 ... a group of reporters approached the general with the request that perhaps he might give them one of several immutable economic truisms that he gathered from long years of economic study ... ' It is an immutable economic fact ,' said the general, ' that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

* Chad, since 27 October 1946 an overseas territory of France ( part of AEF colony ) under its own Governor, shortly after it was on 28 November 1958 granted autonomy as Republic of Chad, had a single High Commissioner from 22 January 1959: Daniel Marius Doustin ( b. 1920 ) until its 11 August 1960 independence from France.

Beginning with a magazine article in 1946, shortly after he left the studio, and increasing as years went on, Clampett repeatedly referred to himself as " the creator " of Bugs Bunny, often adding the side-note that he used Clark Gable's carrot-eating scene in It Happened One Night as inspiration for his " creation.

He did not see combat ; he was deployed to the Pacific shortly after the end of World War II as a commissioned ensign on a succession of aircraft carriers, before returning to UW in 1946.

On August 16, 1946, during the Direct Action Day riots in Calcutta that were instigated by the Muslim League shortly before Partition of India, Goel, his wife and their eldest son narrowly escaped with their lives.

He was joined shortly thereafter ( June 1946 ) by Clifford Shull, and together they established the basic principles of the technique, and applied it successfully to many different materials, addressing problems like the structure of ice and the microscopic arrangements of magnetic moments in materials.

The civil rights anthem " We Shall Overcome " was adapted ( from a gospel song ) by Highlander music director, Zilphia Horton, wife of Myles Horton, from the singing of striking tobacco factory workers in South Carolina in 1946, and shortly afterward was published by folksinger Pete Seeger in the People's Songs bulletin.

Hashing died out during World War II shortly after the invasion of Malaya, but was restarted in 1946 after the war by several of the original group, minus A. S. Gispert, who was killed on 11 February 1942 in the Japanese invasion of Singapore, an event commemorated by many chapters by an annual Gispert Memorial Run.

Leachman began appearing on television and in films shortly after competing in Miss America as Miss Chicago 1946.

The reconstruction started shortly after the war in 1946.

While working at the TRE, shortly before he joined the University of Manchester in December 1946, he had developed a form of electronic memory known as the Williams tube based on a standard CRT, the first random-access digital storage device.

Pulman won the 1946 English Amateur title and turned professional shortly after.

Postcard showing the lights shortly after installation in 1946 / 47.

The station closed shortly after the war ended in 1945, although the operations from Bletchley Park were re-established on the site in April 1946, under the new name of " Government Communications Headquarters ".

Gielgud returned to radio for the duration of the Second World War, but shortly after the return of the television service in 1946, he moved across on a more permanent basis to become the Head of BBC television drama.

" The last residents of the Gas House district, the Delman family, moved out in May 1946, allowing demolition to be completed shortly thereafter.

The club were founded in 1929 as Catanzarese, then changed their denomnation to Unione Sportiva Catanzaro in 1946, shortly after the end of the World War II and in 2006 to Football Club Catanzaro.

A former NSDAP-Kreisleiter shortly before being hanged in 1946.

FEE was founded shortly after the end of World War II in 1946 by Leonard E. Read, who served as its president until his death in 1983.

The Ashes resumed after the war when England toured in 1946 – 47, and as in 1920 – 21, found that Australia had made the best post-war recovery.

* 1946 – Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11 month occupation.

It was formed in 1946, making it the second oldest formal flying aerobatic team ( flying under the same name ) in the world, after the French Patrouille de France formed in 1931.

In East Germany after local election losses, a forced merger of political parties in the Socialist Unity Party (" SED "), followed by elections in 1946 where political opponents were oppressed.

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.

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

( However, the 1940 census was postponed to 1946, and the census after 1990 came in 2001.

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

In 1946, Essendon were clearly the VFL's supreme force, topping the ladder after the roster games and surviving a drawn second semi final against Collingwood to win through to the grand final a week later with a 10. 16 ( 76 ) to 8. 9 ( 57 ).

Neorealism exploded soon after the war, with unforgettable works such as Rossellini's trilogy Rome, Open City ( 1945 ), Paisà ( 1946 ), and Germany, Year Zero ( 1948 ), and with extraordinary actors such as Anna Magnani, as an attempt to describe the difficult economic and moral conditions of Italy and the changes in public mentality in everyday life.

* 1946 – The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Hungarian Republic.

Formula One was a new formula agreed after World War II during 1946, with the first non-championship races being held that year.

* 1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.

The factory was bombed by the Allies in 1944 and rebuilt in 1946, after the war ended, and included a works for road car production.

In the years immediately after the war ( 1944 – 1946 ), the Soviet part of the allied control commission demanded that public libraries should remove from circulation more than 1, 700 books that were deemed anti-Soviet, and bookstores were given catalogs of banned books.

* Groningen 1946 chess tournament-the first major international chess tournament to be held after World War II.

Gygax spent his early childhood in Chicago, but in 1946 ( after he was involved in a brawl with a large group of boys ), his father decided to move the family to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where Gary's mother's family had settled in the early 19th century.

GCHQ was originally established after the First World War as the Government Code and Cypher School ( GCCS or GC & CS ), by which name it was known until 1946.

He married Carol Gimbel ( of the New York department store family ) on February 18, 1946, three days after signing a $ 60, 000 ($ today ) contract with the Tigers.

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.

By the end of 1946, the Communist Democratic Army of Greece had been formed, pitted against the governmental National Army, which was backed first by Britain and after 1947 by the United States.

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.