Although Harry Brown's A Sound of Hunting had a run of only three weeks, Lancaster's performance drew the attention of a Hollywood agent, Harold Hecht, and through him to Hal Wallis, who cast Lancaster in The Killers ( 1946 ).

With Brown at the helm, the team won all four of the AAFC's championships from 1946 until its dissolution in 1949, amassing a record of 52 wins, four losses and three ties.

It hosted the FA Cup Final from 1920 to 1922, has held ten FA Cup semi-finals ( most recently in 1978 ), ten FA Charity Shield matches ( the last in 1970 ), and three England international matches, the last in 1932 ; it was also the venue for an unofficial Victory International in 1946.

* Dressed to Kill, A 1946 Sherlock Holmes film uses Dartmoor Prison in the plot as the supposed location where three music boxes were made that contain a secret code for a criminal gang.

He married three times: to Daphne Harvey in 1945, producing daughter Georgina ( Gina ) Campbell in 1946 ; to Dorothy McKegg in 1952 ; and to Tonia Bern in 1958, which lasted until his death in 1967.

These three scientists were awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

On 1 October 1946, the IMT rendered its judgement on 21 top officials of the Third Reich: 18 were sentenced to death or to long prison terms, and three acquitted.

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.

Zara and Fell subsequently divorced, she married Holt in 1946 and he adopted the three boys.

In 1946, IALA sent an extensive survey to more than 3, 000 language teachers and related professionals on three continents.

She and Jackie had three children: Jackie Robinson Jr. ( born November 18, 1946 ), Sharon Robinson ( born January 13, 1950 ), and David Robinson ( born May 14, 1952 ).

Aside from a first screen appearance as Adonis and the role of Johnny Duval in the 1946 film Swamp Fire, Weissmuller played only three roles in films during the heyday of his Hollywood career: Tarzan, Jungle Jim, and himself.

* 1946 – The " Battle of Alcatraz " takes place, killing two guards and three inmates.

The Red Sox won two out of the three games, seizing their first pennant since 1946 with a 92 – 70 record.

On October 24, 1946 three Frenchmen, Jean Sauvy, Pierre Ponty and moviemaker Jean Rouch, former civil servants in the African French colonies, set out to travel the entire length of the river, as no one else seemed to have done it previously.

In his speech " Restatement of Policy on Germany ", made in Stuttgart on September 6, 1946, United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes stated the U. S. motive in detaching the Saar from Germany: " The United States does not feel that it can deny to France, which has been invaded three times by Germany in 70 years, its claim to the Saar territory ".

Kenney's deputy, Maj. Gen. St. Clair Streett, wrote in July 1946: " No major strategic threat or requirement now exists, in the opinion of our country ’ s best strategists nor will such a requirement exist for the next three to five years.

In November 1946, the Irgun and Stern Gang attacked a railroad twenty-one times in a three week period, eventually causing shell-shocked Arab railway workers to strike.

There have been three other constitutions in Vietnamese history: the 1946, 1959 and 1980 constitutions.

At the foundation of Lower Saxony in 1946 by the merger of the three former Free States of Brunswick, Oldenburg, Schaumburg-Lippe and the former Prussian province of Hanover the former two states became Verwaltungsbezirke ( roughly administrative regions of extended competence ) within Lower Saxony besides the less autonomous Prussian-style Regierungsbezirke comprising the former Province of Hanover and the tiny Schaumburg-Lippe.

The Labour Party ( PvdA ) was founded on 9 February 1946, through a merger of three parties: the Social Democratic Workers ' Party ( SDAP ), the minor left-liberal Free-thinking Democratic League ( VDB ) and the small social-Protestant Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ).

The show was restaged three more times on Broadway: in 1946, 1969 – 70, and 1986-87.

Lorre made nine movies altogether with Sydney Greenstreet counting The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, most of them variations on the latter film, including Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ); Passage to Marseille ( 1944, reteaming them with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains ); The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, with character actor Greenstreet receiving top billing ); The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ); Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ); Three Strangers ( 1946 ), a suspense film about three people who are joint partners on a winning lottery ticket starring top-billed Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and third-billed Lorre cast against type by director Jean Negulesco as the romantic lead ; and Greenstreet and Lorre's final film together, suspense thriller The Verdict ( 1946 ), director Don Siegel's first movie, with Greenstreet and Lorre finally billed first and second, respectively.

The orchestra's official public début was at the Capitol Theatre on Broadway where it opened for a three week engagement on January 24, 1946.

less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment.

During his 72 years of Imamat ( 1885 – 1957 ), the community celebrated his Golden ( 1937 ), Diamond ( 1946 ) and Platinum ( 1954 ) Jubilees.

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

The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War.

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.

Pei received his master's degree in 1946, and taught at Harvard for another two years.

* 1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.

Cotten starred with Jennifer Jones in four films: the wartime domestic drama Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), the romantic drama Love Letters ( 1945 ), the western Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ), and the critically acclaimed Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), in which he played a melancholy artist who becomes obsessed with a girl who may have died many years ago.

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.

Plagued by health problems in his remaining years, including temporary blindness in 1946 and a number of strokes, Schwitters died in Kendal, England, 8 January 1948, of a heart attack, and was buried in Ambleside.

They were exhibited in 1946 and shown all together to the public during four years ( 1950 – 1954 ) in order to allow rightful claimants to identify their properties, then stored or displayed, according to their interest, in several French museums including the Louvre.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; ; 29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953 ) was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus ( NKVD ) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years ( 1946 – 1953 ).

Following his years at Yale, he moved to UCLA, where he remained until 1946.

She also made the annual presentation of engraved silver cigarette cases ( with DeBeck's characters etched on the cover ) to the eight winners spanning the years 1946 to 1953.

For example, in the years 1946 – 1992, the U. S. Supreme Court reversed itself in about 130 cases.

The two consistories of 1946 and 1953 brought an end to over five hundred years of Italians constituting a majority of the College of Cardinals.

* 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.

The factory was nationalised in 1946 two years before the Communist takeover.

After an initial loss to Labor at the 1946 election, Menzies led the Liberals to victory at the 1949 election against the incumbent Labor government led by Curtin's successor, Ben Chifley, and the Coalition stayed in office for a record 23 years.

* June 13 – Tage Erlander, Swedish politician ( social democrat ), prime minister of Sweden for 23 years ( 1946 – 1969 ) ( died 1985 )

Taco Bell was founded by Glen Bell who first opened a hot dog stand called Bell ’ s Drive-In in San Bernardino, California in 1946 when he was 23 years old.

In 1946, fifty years after the opera's premiere, Toscanini conducted a performance of it on radio with the NBC Symphony Orchestra.