King Victor Emmanuel III Abdicates; Umberto II Succeeds — May 9, 1946
Date: May 9, 1946
Date: May 9, 1946
The 8.6 Mw Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii. Date: April 1, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 1 📅 Events on this day in…
Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops. Date: March 11, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 11 📅 Events on this day in 1946 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1946Convair B-36 First Nuclear-Capable Flight, August 8, 1946Timber Lake, South Dakota…
The 8.6 Mw Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii. Date: April 1, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 1 📅 Events on this day in…
An earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan causes a tsunami which kills at least one thousand people and destroys 36,000 homes. Date: December 20, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 20 📅 Events on this day in 1946 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1946George Woolf Dies After Racing Accident,…
Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Date: May 21, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on this day in 1946 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1946Howard Hughes XF-11…
Mass riots in Kolkata begin; more than 4,000 people would be killed in 72 hours. Date: August 16, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 16 📅 Events on this day in 1946 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1946Zhdanov Submits Buschenhagen Report on Finnish-German Contacts, January 8, 1946International…