April 1946 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1946 Weight Watchers forms
• 07 Apr 1946 10th Golf Masters Championship: Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282.
• 08 Apr 1946 League of Nations assembles for last time
• 10 Apr 1946 In Japan, women vote for the first time, during elections for the House of Representatives of the 90th Imperial Diet.
• 12 Apr 1946 Syria gains independence from France
• 13 Apr 1946 Belgian premier Acker proclaims end of wage and price freeze.
• 14 Apr 1946 Day Before Spring closes at National Theater NYC after 167 performances
• 16 Apr 1946 First US launch of captured German V-2 rocket, White Sands New Mexico; 8 km altitude.
• 17 Apr 1946 Syria declares independence from French administration
• 18 Apr 1946 Call Me Mister opens at National Theater NYC for 734 performances
• 20 Apr 1946 1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs. Cubs
• 21 Apr 1946 SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany
• 22 Apr 1946 SED, Sozialistic Einheitspartei Deutschlands, party forms
• 23 Apr 1946 Brooklyn Dodgers' Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0.
• 25 Apr 1946 Exposition Flyer rammed at Napierville, Illinois, USA killing 48.
• 27 Apr 1946 FA Cup: Derby County beat Charlton Athletic in the first FA Cup final since the end of the war
• 28 Apr 1946 Pestalozzi Children’s Village (''Kinderdorf Pestalozzi'') established at Trogen in Switzerland to accommodate and educate orphans of World War II according to Pestalozzian principles.
• 29 Apr 1946 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.

Famous Birthday

• Nicole Garcia

  French actress, film director and writer.

• Tim Curry

  British actor, composer and singer best known for his role as Dr. Frank N. Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," 1975, maintaining its...

• Arrigo Sacchi

  Italian soccer/football team coach.

• Catherine Allégret

  French actress, daughter of Simone Signoret and Yves Allegret; adopted by her mom's second husband, Yves Montand.

• Talia Shire

  American actress.

• Vladimir Jirinovski
• Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
• Prague (Czech Republic)
• Ed O'Neill

  American actor.

• John Waters

  Director.

• Paul Barril

  French military man who had service in France's special services unit.

• Al Green

  American singer and pastor.

• Ginette Reno

  French Canadian author, composer, singer, and actress.

• Babs Kirby

  British astrologer in the humanistic field, a psychotherapist who uses Gestalt encounter therapy.

• Jean-François Balmer

  French Swiss actor who has worked extensively for French cinema, theatre, and television.

• Jane Asher

  British actress, cook, writer and businesswoman.

• Hayley Mills

  British actress, an appealing juvenile who charmed audiences as the bubbly teenage star of such '60s Disney classics as "The Parent Trap"...

• Jean-François Garreaud
• Jean-François Michael
• Michel Delebarre
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Famous Deaths

• Vincent Millie Youmans

  American composer (Tea For Two), dies from tuberculosis at age 47.

• F Guicciardi

  Writer.

• William Henry Bell

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Jesus Castillo

  Composer, dies at 68.

• Arthur Chevrolet

  Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (Born 1884).

• John Maynard Keynes

  English economist (Born 1883).

• Harlan F Stone

  Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (Born 1872).

• August Borms

  Flemish Nazi collaborator, is executed at age 67.

• John M Keynes

  English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at age 62.

• Harlan Fiske Stone

  Chief Justice US Supreme Court (1941-46), dies at age 73.

• Hermann Keyserling

  European author, aristocrat and philosopher.

• Jim White

  discoverer of Carlsbad Caverns (Born 1882).

• Louis Bachelier

  French mathematician and theorist (d. 1946).

• Vincent Youmans

  American composer and producer (d. 1946).

• Masaharu Homma

  Lieutenant General (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed.

• Lionel Atwill

  Actor (Captain Blood, Great Waltz), dies at 61.

• Noah Beery

  Actor (Beau Geste, Cimarron Kid, Mammy), dies at 62.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy
2. Bing Crosby (Eddie Condon Orchestra) - Personality
3. Bing Crosby & Jesters - Sioux City Sue
4. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - You Won't be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)
5. Billy Eckstine - Prisoner of Love