7 events found for 1946
The final session of the League of Nations concluded in Geneva, with delegates agreeing to transfer much of its assets t
Two passenger trains collided in Naperville, Illinois, leaving 45 people dead and some 125 injured
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony
While working with a mass of plutonium known as the demon core, Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin accidentally ex
Canada's largest recorded onshore earthquake struck Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Named after Bikini Atoll, the site of the nuclear-weapons test Operation Crossroads in the Marshall Islands, the…
After weeks of unrest, rioters lynched Bolivian president Gualberto Villarroel, desecrating and hanging his corpse in…