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    1946 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1946: The five-member...
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    and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the local government in August 1946. The citizens, including some World War II veterans, accused the local...
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  • 1946 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1946. 1946 (MCMXLVI)...
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    with her. It was shot in late 1945 and early 1946, and was released by RKO Radio Pictures in August 1946. Notorious is considered by critics and scholars...
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    Veiller. As in many film noir, it is mostly told in flashback. Released in August 1946, The Killers was a critical success, earning four Academy Award nominations...
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  • 1946 – Charles Bolden, American general and astronaut 1946 – Bill Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 42nd President of the United States 1946 –...
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    Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take a "direct action" using violence to intimidate non-muslims...
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  • August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 132 days remain until the end of the year. 959 – Eraclus becomes...
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  • August 22 is the 234th day of the year (235th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 131 days remain until the end of the year. 392 – Arbogast has Eugenius...
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  • Accommodation, and Labor Utilization of the Japanese Army Prisoners of War". 1946 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German...
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    Provincial elections were held in British India in January 1946 to elect members of the legislative councils of the Indian provinces. The Congress, in...
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  • businessman 1946 – Mufaddal Saifuddin, 53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq of Fatimid Caliphate 1946 – Henryk Broder, Polish-German journalist and author 1946 – Connie Chung...
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    The Stranger is a 1946 American thriller film noir directed and (although uncredited) co-written by Orson Welles, starring himself along with Edward G...
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    Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of...
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    Constituent Assembly of India (category Articles with unsourced statements from August 2021)
    Provincial Assembly elections held in 1946 and nominated by princely states. After India's independence from the British in August 1947, its members served as the...
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    N. R. Narayana Murthy (category 1946 births)
    Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy (born 20 August 1946) is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is one of the seven co-founders of Infosys, and has previously...
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    provisional government of Free France between 3 June 1944 and 27 October 1946, following the liberation of continental France after Operations Overlord...
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    Ralf Hütter (category 1946 births)
    Ralf Hütter (born 20 August 1946) is a German musician and composer best known as the lead singer and keyboardist of Kraftwerk, which he founded with...
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    are a flight demonstration squadron of the United States Navy. Formed in 1946, the unit is the second oldest formal aerobatic team in the world, following...
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    steamed to New York, arriving there on 23 July 1946. John W. Brown departed New York on 9 August 1946 to begin her thirteenth and final voyage. She steamed...
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  • August 24 is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 129 days remain until the end of the year. 367 – Gratian, son of...
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    disestablishment of the Kingdom of Hungary on 1 February 1946 and was itself dissolved on 20 August 1949. It was succeeded by the Soviet-backed Hungarian...
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    Vergarola explosion (category August 1946 events in Europe)
    explosion, also known in Italy as the Vergarolla massacre, took place on 18 August 1946 when the sudden detonation of 12 large pieces of assorted ordnance, containing...
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    home, a claim which was dismissed by the Soviets as coincidental. On 7 August 1946, the Soviets presented a note to the Turkish Foreign Ministry which stated...
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    Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (category Bengal MLAs 1946–1947)
    on 16 August. The historian Devendra Panigrahi, in his book India's Partition: The Story of Imperialism in Retreat, quotes from 13 August 1946 issue of...
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    Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from August 2022)
    London Gazette (Supplement). 13 August 1946. pp. 4097–4098. "No. 37685". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 August 1946. p. 4098. Ward, Steven R. (2009)...
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    Willy Russell (category 1946 births)
    William Russell (born 23 August 1946) is an English dramatist, lyricist and composer. His best known works are Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine, Blood...
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  • Security 1946 – Zhou Ji, Chinese engineer and politician, 14th Chinese Minister of Education 1946 – Valerie Simpson, American singer-songwriter 1946 – Alison...
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    Aruna Irani (category 1946 births)
    Aruna Irani (born 18 August 1946) is an Indian actress, who has acted in over 500 films throughout Hindi, Kannada, Marathi and Gujarati cinema, playing...
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    Operation Highjump (category 1946 in Antarctica)
    Commanding Officer, Task Force 68. Operation HIGHJUMP commenced 26 August 1946 and ended in late February 1947. Task Force 68 included 4,700 men, 70...
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