June 1946 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1946 78th Belmont: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:30.8
• 02 Jun 1946 Italian plebiscite chooses Republic over monarchy (National Day)
• 03 Jun 1946 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)
• 04 Jun 1946 Largest solar prominence (300,000 miles / 500,000 km) observed.
• 05 Jun 1946 Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago, Illinois, USA).
• 06 Jun 1946 Martin Kresses begins publishing Eric the Viking comic strip
• 07 Jun 1946 Pirates players vote 20-16 to walkout rather than play the Giants
• 08 Jun 1946 Lute Song closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 142 performances
• 09 Jun 1946 66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest
• 10 Jun 1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st Director of CIA Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd Director of CIA
• 13 Jun 1946 King Umberto II of Italy abdicates
• 14 Jun 1946 Canadian Library Association established.
• 16 Jun 1946 Annie Get Your Gun opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 performances
• 17 Jun 1946 SouthWest Bell innaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, Saint Louis, Missouri. USA.
• 18 Jun 1946 Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
• 20 Jun 1946 New York City transit begins using PA system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line
• 21 Jun 1946 Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million
• 22 Jun 1946 Bill Veeck purchases Cleveland Indians
• 23 Jun 1946 The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
• 24 Jun 1946 11.72 (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen Wisc (state 24-hr record)
• 25 Jun 1946 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) (World Bank) begins operations.
• 26 Jun 1946 Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years
• 28 Jun 1946 Permanent radio play-by-play of Cleveland Indians games begins
• 29 Jun 1946 Are You with It? closes at Century Theater NYC after 264 performances
• 30 Jun 1946 The War Relocation Authority is abolished.

Famous Birthday

• Donald Trump

  American entrepreneur who made a fortune estimated at $1 billion by finding and buying losing properties and turning them around.

• Demis Roussos

  Greek singer and performer who had a string of international hit records as a solo performer in the 1970s after having been a member of...

• Brigitte Fossey

  Tourcoing Actor.

• Pinacothèque de Paris
• Zbigniew Seifert
• Peter Sutcliffe

  British homicide; known as the Yorkshire Ripper as he killed 13 women and attempted to kill 7 more, mostly prostitutes.

• Stefania Sandrelli

  Italian popular, innocent-looking actress known in the U.S.

• Fabio Capello

  Italian athlete, an ex-soccer player from Milan and the Nationals.

• Gilda Radner

  American comedienne on stage and film who created a gallery of offbeat characters as one of the original cast members of TV's "Saturday...

• Maria Bethânia
• Brian Cox (actor)
• Lasse Hällström
• Jean-François Parot
• Xanana Gusmão

  Timorese soldier and politician 1st President of East Timor.

• Noddy Holder

  English singer-songwriter guitarist and actor (Slade).

• David McNeil
• Janet Lennon
• Xavier Gélin

  French actor, producer, scenarist and director who died in Paris on 2 July 1999, aged 53, in Paris.

• Kenneth Adelman

  American government official, appointed in January 1983 by President Reagan as Director of the U.S.

• Gérard Grisey
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Famous Deaths

• Rama VIII

  King of Siam (1935-46), dies at 21.

• Edward Bowes

  Radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), dies at 71.

• Ludwig Winder

  Writer.

• Miloje Milojevic

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Michael Zadora

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Heinrich Kaminski

  Composer, dies at 59.

• Eduard Veterman

  Dutch Painter / playwright, dies in an auto accident.

• Michail I Kalinin

  President (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60.

• Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII]

  King of Thailand (Born 1925).

• Count Hisaichi Terauchi

  Japanese Field Marshal.

• Louise Whitfield Carnegie

  American philanthropist (Born 1857).

• Yosuke Matsuoka

  Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (Born 1880).

• Max Kogel

  SS officer (Born 1895).

• Gerhart Hauptmann

  German dramatist, playwright, novelist and poet, one of the most important and prolific German writers of his time.

• Jack Johnson

  first black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident.

• Ion Antonescu

  Romanian field marshal and politician 43rd Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1946).

• Ananda Mahidol

  King of Siam, shot dead at 20.

• Mikhail Kalinin

  Russian civil servant and politician 1st Head of State of The Soviet Union (d. 1946).

• John Logie Baird

  Scottish television pioneer (Born 1888).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Hal McIntyre & His Orchestra - The Gypsy
2. Perry Como - They Say It's Wonderful
3. Dinah Shore - Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
4. Andy Russell - They Say It's Wonderful
5. Ink Spots - Prisoner Of Love