February 1946 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1946 Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president.
• 02 Feb 1946 Nellie Bly closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 16 performances
• 05 Feb 1946 The United States recognizes the government of Romania.
• 06 Feb 1946 Lute Song opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 142 performances
• 07 Feb 1946 Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC bill.
• 08 Feb 1946 Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties.
• 09 Feb 1946 Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms.
• 10 Feb 1946 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum
• 11 Feb 1946 The U.S. Military Tribunal in Japan convicts Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma of the Japanese Army of ordering the Bataan Death March and condoning other wartime atrocities. He is sentenced to death by firing squad.
• 12 Feb 1946 World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
• 13 Feb 1946 Duchess Misbehaves opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 5 performances
• 14 Feb 1946 The Bank of England is nationalized.
• 15 Feb 1946 ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
• 16 Feb 1946 Duchess Misbehaves closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 5 performances
• 17 Feb 1946 Humanistic Covenant forms in Amsterdam.
• 18 Feb 1946 Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutinied in Mumbai harbour, from where it would spread throughout British India and involve 78 ships, 20 shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
• 20 Feb 1946 An explosion kills more than 400 coal miners in West Germany.
• 21 Feb 1946 Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt.
• 26 Feb 1946 Two killed and ten wounded in race riot in Columbia, Tennessee, USA.
• 27 Feb 1946 4th Road film, Road to Utopia premieres (NYC)
• 28 Feb 1946 Combined Chiefs of Staff reveal that the American, Canadian, and British Governments had experimented with building ice ships during 1942-43. The Habbakuk project was to create a two-million-ton ship made of ice and wood pulp, 2000 feet long, 300 feet wide, as a floating aircraft base.

Famous Birthday

• Alan Rickman

  Actor (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves).

• Charlotte Rampling

  British actress, a provocative lead of British and international films.

• André Dussolier
• Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhist monk since 1978, formerly searcher in molecular genetics, son of french journalist Jean-François Revel and painter Yahne Le...

• Alice Dona

  French singer and songwriter.

• Gérard Longuet

  French politician, postal, telecommunications and industry minister in 1993.

• Issayas Afeworki
• Robin Cook (British politician)
• Sandy Duncan

  American stage, TV and movie actress, singer and dancer whose girl-next-door, perky appeal in TV commercials first brought her to the...

• Richard Cocciante

  French-Italian singer and songwriter.

• Tyne Daly

  American actress who drifted into her field with stage work, low-budget films and TV guest shots as a natural outcome of having acting...

• Jean Todt

  French motor sport executive.

• Brice Lalonde

  Neuilly sur Seine Politician.

• Brenda Blethyn

  English actress and singer.

• Gérard Bapt
• Gregory Hines

  American song-and-dance man, a gifted dancer, who appeared in films and on stage, transforming the world of modern dance.

• Karen Silkwood

  American activist who put herself in grave danger when she reported unsafe conditions at the plant where she worked.

• René Rouquet
• Tina Aumont

  French actress born in America, the daughter of Maria Montez and Jean-Pierre Aumont.

• Barry Bostwick

  Actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Miles Mander

  Actor / director (Murder, 3 Musketeers), dies at 57.

• Hans Betghe

  Writer, dies at 70.

• Hugh Allen

  Musician.

• Margarete Boie

  Writer.

• Tomoyuki Yamashita

  Japanese general and politician 4th Japanese Military Governors of the Philippines (d. 1946).

• George Arliss

  British stage actor who became an international screen star at age 53.

• Jose Streel

  Belgian World War II collaborator (Born 1911).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Connee Boswell - Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
2. Harry James & His Orchestra - I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
3. Andrews Sisters - Money is the Root of All Evil
4. Perry Como - You Won't be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)
5. Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!