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1946 in the United States
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
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Years:	1943 1944 1945 – 1946 – 1947 1948 1949
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Events from the year 1946 in the United States.

Events

January–March

• January 6 – A revised and streamlined revival of Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat opens on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre.
• January 25 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
• January 29 – The Central Intelligence Group is established (the CIA in 1947).
• February 14 – ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
• February 28 – In Philadelphia, General Electric strikers and police clash.
• March 5 – In his speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill talks about the Iron Curtain.
• March 6 – Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
• March 7 – The 18th Academy Awards ceremony is held.

April–June

• April 1 – A 14-meter high tsunami strikes Hilo and Laupāhoehoe on the Big Island of Hawaii; 173 are killed, thousands injured.
• April 18 – The United States recognizes Josip Broz Tito's government in Yugoslavia.
• April 23 – The Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League (Which is now the CBA) is founded.
• June 6 – The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
• June 17 – A tornado on the Detroit River kills 17.
• June 17 – Laurence Olivier's Henry V opens in the United States nearly 2 years after its release in England. It is the first Shakespeare film in color, and critics hail it as the finest film of a Shakespeare play ever made.

July–September

• July 7 – Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American saint to be canonized.
• July 25 – Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.
• July 25 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
• July 25 – In the last mass lynching in the United States, a mob of white men shoot and kill two African-American couples near Moore's Ford Bridge in Georgia.

October–December

• October 16 – The United Nations' first meeting in Long Island is held.
• November 1 – The New York Knicks play against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks win 68–66.
• November 6 – Senate and House elections in the United States both give majorities to the Republicans.
• November 12 – In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank (now part of the LaSalle Bank) opens the first 10 drive-up teller windows.
• November 27 – Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster."
• December 2 The International Whaling Commission was signed in Washington to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry".
• December 7 – A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, United States kills 119.
• December 20 – Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, and Thomas Mitchell, is released in New York.
• December 22 – The Havana Conference begins between U.S. organized crime bosses in Havana, Cuba.
• December 26 – The Flamingo Hotel opens on the Las Vegas Strip.

Undated

• The 20 mm M61 Vulcan Gatling gun contract is released.
• The NFL team San Francisco 49ers is formed.

External links

• Media related to 1946 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons