Date: August 16, 1946
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Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf suffers a concussion during a freak racing accident; he dies from the injury the following day. The annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him. Date: January 3, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 3 📅 Events on this day in…
Cold War: Winston Churchill delivers his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College, Missouri. Date: March 5, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 5 📅 Events on this day in 1946 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1946Russian Liberation Army Leaders Executed for Treason in Moscow, August 1,…
About 500 postal workers in Tel Aviv and Jaffa went on strike. Date: April 9, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 9 📅 Events on this day in 1946 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1946James F. Byrnes Announces U.S. Economic Reconstruction Policy for Postwar Germany September 6,…
The Emirate of Transjordan becomes independent from the United Kingdom as the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan after ratifying the Treaty of London and making their Amir, Abdullah I, their King. Date: May 25, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 25 📅 Events on this day in 1946 📅 On This…
King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths. Date: July 22, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 22 📅 Events on this day in 1946 📅…
Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. Date: January 22, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 22 📅 Events on this day in 1946 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1946Pilbara Indigenous Australians Three-Year Strike Begins, May 1, 1946Kielce Pogrom Against Jewish Holocaust…