August 1946 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1946 US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
• 03 Aug 1946 Belgian government of Huysmans, forms
• 04 Aug 1946 An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
• 06 Aug 1946 US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court.
• 07 Aug 1946 1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
• 08 Aug 1946 Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney and John Galbreath for $25 million
• 13 Aug 1946 Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus.
• 16 Aug 1946 Great Calcutta blood bath - Moslem / Hindu riot (3-4,000 die)
• 18 Aug 1946 Golf Writers Associaton of America formed.
• 19 Aug 1946 Violence between Muslims and Hindus in Calcutta leaves 3,000 dead.
• 22 Aug 1946 Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it
• 23 Aug 1946 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
• 25 Aug 1946 28th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland Golf Club - Portland, Oregon
• 26 Aug 1946 George Orwell published Animal Farm

Famous Birthday

• Bill Clinton

  American politician from 1963, a graduate of Yale Law school, Governor of Arkansas in 1978 at age 32 and sworn into office as U.S.

• Laurent Fabius

  French politician, Prime Minister 1984-86, charged in connection with the AIDS deaths of five people and the contamination of two others...

• Keith Moon

  Rock drummer (Who), dies of drug overdose at 31.

• Marilyn vos Savant
• Elisabeth Guigou
• Peggy Lipton

  American actress, an archetypal hippie with long shining hair and hip garb.

• Eric de Montgolfier
• Michel Wieviorka
• Susan Saint James

  American actress, the winner of seven TV Emmy's in seven years.

• Lesley Ann Warren
• Connie Chung

  Chinese-American newscaster, teamed with Dan Rather at CBS in 1993.

• Didier Sandre
• Serge Moati

  French artist, journalist, film director and writer.

• Ralf Hütter

  German singer and keyboard player (Kraftwerk and Organisation).

• Janet Yellen

  American economist and professor who is the Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

• Renaud Camus
• Marie de Hennezel
• Watts Riots
• Christian Décamps
• Sami Naïr
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Famous Deaths

• Paul August von Klenau

  Danish opera Composer / conductor, dies at 63.

• Andrei Vlasov

  Russian General (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45.

• Susan St James [Susan Jane Miller]

  LA California, actress (Kate & Allie).

• H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells

  Sci-fi Author (Time Machine), dies at 79.

• Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky

  Composer, dies at 33.

• Herman Harrell Horne

  Philosopher (idealism).

• J E Feenstra

  Nazi military police commandant, executed.

• Milan Harasta

  Composer, dies at 26.

• H G Wells

  English writer (Born 1866).

• Konstantin Rodzaevsky

  Russian fascist (executed) (Born 1907).

• Grigory Semyonov

  Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (Born 1890).

• Adolphus Busch III

  American brewing magnate and President and CEO of the Anheuser-Busch Company (Born 1891).

• Wilhelm Marx

  German lawyer and politician 17th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946).

• Jeanie MacPherson

  American actress and screenwriter (Born 1887).

• Bert Vogler

  South African cricketer (Born 1876).

• Tony Lazzeri

  American baseball player and manager (d. 1946).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Tex Beneke & The Glenn Miller Orchestra - I Know
2. Sam Donahue & His Orchestra - Just the Other Day
3. Frank Sinatra - Five Minutes More
4. Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters - South America, Take It Away
5. Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Hawaiian War Chant (Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai)