July 1946 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1946 Rajah cedes Sarawak to British crown
• 02 Jul 1946 Dutch Beel government forms
• 03 Jul 1946 1st Dutch government of Beel forms
• 04 Jul 1946 Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die
• 05 Jul 1946 The bikini is re-introduced in Paris, France (it was a Roman invention).
• 06 Jul 1946 St. Louis Woman closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 performances
• 07 Jul 1946 Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
• 08 Jul 1946 Tidbits of 1946 opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 8 performances
• 09 Jul 1946 13th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 12-0 at Fenway Park, Boston
• 10 Jul 1946 Belgian government of Acker, resigns
• 11 Jul 1946 Kingman Douglass, ends term as Deputy Director of CIA
• 12 Jul 1946 Vance Dinges hits the only Philadelphia Phillies' pinch hit inside-the-park home run.
• 13 Jul 1946 Tidbits of 1946 closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 8 performances
• 14 Jul 1946 Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland
• 15 Jul 1946 British North Borneo Company transfers rights to British crown.
• 16 Jul 1946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
• 21 Jul 1946 Delegates of 21 nations meet in Paris, France, for a Peace Conference, to attempt to settle on the language of peace treaties with Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Finland.
• 22 Jul 1946 Estelle Bennett in New York City, New York, USA; rocker (The Ronettes).
• 23 Jul 1946 Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel
• 24 Jul 1946 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash
• 25 Jul 1946 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
• 26 Jul 1946 President Truman orders desegregation of all US forces
• 27 Jul 1946 Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs
• 30 Jul 1946 First rocket attains 100 miles (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico, USA.

Famous Birthday

• Ken Starr

  American lawyer and judge 39th Solicitor General of the United States.

• Sylvester Stallone

  American actor who made a huge break-through to overnight success with writing and starring in "Rocky," 1976, an Oscar winning picture.

• George W Bush

  43rd President of the United States.

• Mireille Mathieu

  French singer, more than 120 million records sold worldwide.

• Shelley von Strunckel
• Linda Ronstadt

  American singer of country, folk, ballads and rock.

• Bon Scott

  Scottish musician, original lead singer with the heavy metal group "AC/DC.

• Hervé Vilard

  French singer-songwriter.

• Hassanal Bolkiah

  29th Sultan of Brunei.

• Ron Kovic

  American Vietnam veteran and hero of the 1990 film "Born on the Fourth of July," which detailed his experiences during and after the war.

• Danny Glover

  American actor, film director and political activist.

• Sue Lyon

  American model and actress from age 13.

• Ilie Nastase
• William Sheller

  French classical composer and pop singer-songwriter.

• Paul-Loup Sulitzer

  French financier and author.

• Fred Dryer

  American football player and actor.

• Cheech Marin

  Mexican-American actor and comedian.

• Demetra George

  American astrologer, writer and speaker from the late '60s; a member of AFAN, NCGR and ISAR.

• João Bosco

  Brazilian great composer, singer and acoustic guitar player.

• Francis Evrard
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Famous Deaths

• Othenio Able

  Austria paleontology, dies at 71.

• Aleksander V Aleksandrov

  Russian Composer / conductor, dies at 63.

• Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic

  Yugoslav General (Nazi), executed at 53.

• Narziss Oh

  German psychology.

• Morris Hirshfield

  Polish / US painter.

• Anthony Overton

  publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker, dies at age 81.

• Gualberto Villarroel

  Bolivian politician (Born 1908).

• James Maxton

  Scottish politician, a left-wing socialist and attractive parliamentary speaker.

• Gertrude Stein

  American writer, a novelist and playwright whose works include "Three Lives," 1908 a biography, "Alice B. Toklas," 1933 and an...

• Alfred Stieglitz

  US photographer / art dealer (Camera Work), dies at 82.

• Gerda Steinhoff

  Polish-born German concentration camp overseer (Born 1922).

• Razor Smith

  English cricketer (Born 1877).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan - Stone Cold Dead in the Market (He Had It Coming)
2. Gene Krupa & His Orchestra - Boogie Blues
3. Sam Donahue & His Orchestra - Dinah
4. Elliot Lawrence & His Orchestra - Who Do You Love I Hope
5. Tony Martin - To Each His Own