On 24 April 1946 Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Chester Nimitz issued a directive ordering the formation of a flight exhibition team to boost Navy morale, demonstrate naval air power, and maintain public interest in naval aviation.

David Lawrence Angell ( April 10, 1946 – September 11, 2001 ) was an American producer of sitcoms.

Following the conclusion of hostilities, the base was closed on 30 April 1946.

The ruling Communist party, known as the " Socialist Unity Party " ( SED ), was formed in April 1946 from the merger between the German Communist Party ( KPD ) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) by mandate of Joseph Stalin.

The Viscount and Viscountess Alexander of Tunis are greeted by Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King | Mackenzie King upon the viceregal couple's arrival in Ottawa, 12 April 1946

The International Refugee Organization ( IRO ) was founded on April 20, 1946 to deal with the massive refugee problem created by World War II.

Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop ( 30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946 ) was Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945.

On his 20th birthday, 2 April 1946, Brabham was discharged from the RAAF at the rank of Leading Aircraftman ( LAC ).

* Valkenburgh, Richard Van Long Walk by Very Slim Man, Desert Magazine, April, 1946

The final meeting of the League of Nations was held on 12 April 1946 in Geneva.

On 19 April 1946, the President of the Assembly, Carl J. Hambro of Norway, declared " the twenty-first and last session of the General Assembly of the League of Nations closed.

In April 1946 city officials estimated that they were 16, 700 Poles, 12, 800 Germans, and 60, 000 Soviets in Legnica.

# Decides that in adjudicating the dispute brought before it by the Application filed by the Republic of Nicaragua on 9 April 1984, the Court is required to apply the " multilateral treaty reservation " contained in proviso ( c ) to the declaration of acceptance of jurisdiction made under Article 36, paragraph 2, of the Statute of the Court by the Government of the United States of America deposited on 26 August 1946 ;

* Cost of Defeat, Time magazine, 8 April 1946

* U. S. Economic Policy Towards defeated countries April, 1946.

With the heightened international tension of the 1930s the Court was used with decreasing regularity ; by a resolution by the League of Nations on 18 April 1946, the Court ceased to exist, being replaced by the International Court of Justice.

Continuing pressure from Syrian nationalist groups and British pressure forced the French to evacuate their troops in April 1946, leaving the country in the hands of a republican government that had been formed during the mandate.

In April 1946, the last French officers were forced to leave Syria due to sustained resistance offensives ; the Levantine Forces then became the regular armed forces of the newly independent state and grew rapidly to about 12, 000 by the time of the 1948 Arab − Israeli War, the first of four Arab − Israeli wars between 1948 and 1986.

Timothy James " Tim " Curry ( born 19 April 1946 ) is a British actor, singer, composer and voice actor, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions.

He was succeeded by Fiorello La Guardia ( 1 April to 31 December 1946 ), former mayor of New York-who later learned that that his sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck, and other relatives had been imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps.

By April 1946, Gakushuin was reopened and Ono was enrolled.

* April 20 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer ( b. 1946 )

* June 21 – International Hydrographic Bureau ( IHB ) established as an agency of the League of Nations ; continues in this form until April 19, 1946.

* April 23 – Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-Nazi campaigner ( killed by police ) ( b. 1946 )

* April 17 – Ray Stannard Baker, American journalist and author ( d. 1946 )

Fermanagh is part of the Fermanagh and South Tyrone Parliamentary Constituency, renowned for high levels of voting and for electing Provisional IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands as a Member of Parliament in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, April 1981, shortly before his death.

Although Japan eventually recognized the People's Republic in 1972, shortly after Kakuei Tanaka succeeded Sato as Prime Minister of Japan, the memory of this relationship was strong enough to be reported by The New York Times ( April 15, 1978 ) as a significant factor inhibiting trade between Japan and the mainland.

On 27 April 1977, shortly before his 77th birthday, Mountbatten became the first member of the Royal Family to appear on the TV guest show This Is Your Life.

Pereira came back from Goa, removed the corpse shortly after 15 April 1553, and moved it to his house.

A military dictatorship, led by then-Lt. Col. Lansana Conté and styling itself the Military Committee of National Recovery ( CMRN ), took control of Guinea in April 1984, shortly after the death of independent Guinea's first president, Sékou Touré.

On April 17, 2002, shortly after calling a game between the Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers on TNT, both Albert and color analyst Mike Fratello were injured in a limo accident in Trenton, New Jersey.

Nobel's instructions named a Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize, the members of whom were appointed shortly after the will was approved in April 1897.

On 12 April 1261, shortly before his death, Alexander issued a papal bull for King Henry that absolved him of oaths taken in the Provisions of Oxford, which was instrumental in the War.

The first mention of the Tervingi occurs in a eulogy of the emperor Maximian ( 285 – 305 ), delivered in or shortly after 291 ( perhaps at Trier on 20 April 292 ) and traditionally ascribed to Claudius Mamertinus, which says that the " Tervingi, another division of the Goths " ( Tervingi pars alia Gothorum ) joined with the Taifali to attack the Vandals and Gepidae.

In April 1941, Willkie joined the law firm of Miller, Boston, and Owen in New York City, and shortly thereafter the firm changed its name to Willkie, Owen, Otis, Farr, and Gallagher.

* April 1993 – The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former U. S. President George H. W. Bush shortly after his visit to Kuwait.

* April – The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former U. S. President George Bush shortly after his visit to Kuwait.

* April 17 – Russwood Park, a baseball stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, burns to the ground from a fire shortly after a Chicago White Sox versus Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball game.

* April 24 – Six Red Army Faction terrorists take over the West German embassy in Stockholm, take 11 hostages and demand the release of the group's jailed members ; shortly after, they are captured by Swedish police.

The Central Committee, under the leadership of Jiang Qing, labelled the event ' counter-revolutionary ', and cleared the square of memorial items shortly after midnight on April 6.

Æthelred died shortly after Easter ( 15 April ) 871, and is buried at Wimborne Minster in Dorset.

* April 13 – Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3, a North Korean Earth observation satellite, explodes shortly after launch.

" His columns resumed shortly after the April 23 opening of his annual film festival at the University of Illinois.

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was simultaneously Father of the House and Prime Minister from May 1907 until shortly before his death in April 1908.

His gruks first started to appear in the daily newspaper " Politiken " shortly after the Nazi Occupation in April 1940 under the signature Kumbel Kumbell.

Heath sacked Enoch Powell from the Shadow Cabinet in April 1968, shortly after Powell made his inflammatory " Rivers of Blood " speech which criticised Commonwealth immigration to the United Kingdom.

Rapid growth occurred shortly thereafter, and on April 5, 1878 the town was officially incorporated as the City of Gaithersburg.

In April 2004, shortly before the federal election, Robinson admitted to the theft of an expensive ring from a public auction site.

Willis C. Hawley ( left ) and Reed Smoot in April 1929, shortly before the Smoot – Hawley Tariff Act passed the House of Representatives.

Almost all the people deported were murdered on or shortly after April 11, 1944, when their train reached Auschwitz concentration camp | Auschwitz-Birkenau.