October 1946 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1946 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg
• 02 Oct 1946 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont
• 03 Oct 1946 Cards beat Dodgers 8-4 at Ebbets Field to win NL playoffs 2-0
• 05 Oct 1946 Yours Is My Heart closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 36 performances
• 06 Oct 1946 President Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
• 08 Oct 1946 Kwo-less-shrew selects General Chiang Kai-shek as President of China
• 10 Oct 1946 Commencement of the Noakhali genocide of Hindus in Bengal at the hands of Muslim mobs.
• 13 Oct 1946 France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
• 14 Oct 1946 Netherlands and Indonesia sign cease fire.
• 15 Oct 1946 Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140)
• 16 Oct 1946 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
• 20 Oct 1946 Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yards, Chicago Cardinals versus New York Giants.
• 22 Oct 1946 2 British ships sink near Albania
• 23 Oct 1946 UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC-Flushing Meadows)
• 24 Oct 1946 Netherlands and Indonesia sign cease fire
• 25 Oct 1946 1st trial against Nazi war criminals (Neurenberg)
• 27 Oct 1946 Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections
• 28 Oct 1946 German rocket engineers begin work in the USSR

Famous Birthday

• Stephen Arroyo

  American astrologer and noted author, winner of the 1992 Regulus Award for the Human Experience, and he has as well been awarded the British...

• Susan Sarandon

  American actress, notable in films from her debut in the 1970s.

• Deepak Chopra

  East Indian-American author, physician and healer, and inspirational leader in holistic health.

• Bernard Lavilliers

  French singer-songwriter and actor.

• Richard Loncraine

  English director and screenwriter.

• Suzanne Somers

  American actress of films and TV series who is usually cast as the sexy dumb-blonde.

• Elfriede Jelinek

  Austrian author and playwright Nobel Prize laureate.

• Richard Carpenter

  American musician, a member of a popular brother-sister singing team, "The Carpenters" who sold millions of hit records in the early '70s.

• Justin Hayward

  England, United Kingdom -- Vocalist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin).

• Mohan Koparkar
• Charles Dance

  English actor director and screenwriter.

• Daryl Hall

  American rock singer (Hall & Oates).

• Peter Green

  British rock musician, a guitarist and songwriter who formed the group "Fleetwood Mac" with a debut on 8/12/1967.

• Robert Hue

  French politician who was National Secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1994 to 2001 and President of the PCF from 2001 to...

• Stephen Rea

  Irish actor.

• Dennis Kucinich

  American politician.

• Dan McCafferty

  Scottish singer for the band Nazareth, a hard rock quartet with a string of hits in the 1970s.

• Jean Lemière
• Carrie Snodgress

  American actress (d. 2004).

• Pierre Groscolas
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Famous Deaths

• Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Senior official of Nazi Germany during World War II.

• Alfred G Jodl

  Colonel-General / German staff chief weather authority, hanged.

• Granville Ransome Bantock

  English Composer / conductor, dies at 78.

• Hans Franc

  German war criminal, hanged.

• Joseph W Stilwell

  US General (China).

• John S Curry

  US Painter (Baptism in Kansas).

• Barney Oldfield

  American automobile pioneer (Born 1878).

• Ioannis Rallis

  Prime Minister of Greece (Born 1878).

• Wilhelm Frick

  German civil servant, typical, with a colorless personality.

• Wilhelm Keitel

  German Nazi Field Marshall and Chief of Staff of the High Command of the German Armed Forces (OKW), Hitler's closest military advisor and...

• Alfred Rosenberg

  Estonian-German philosopher of national socialism, a racist politician, journalist and anti-Marxist, he also had a great influence on...

• Fritz Sauckel

  German politician, Nazi, chief of slave labor recruitment whose orders moved five million people to slave work.

• Joseph Stilwell

  American general (Born 1883).

• Joachim von Ribbentrop

  German soldier and politician 14th German Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1946).

• Arthur Seyss-Inquart

  Austrian chancellor (1930s), dies at age 54.

• Hermann Goering

  Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison.

• Gabriel Gabrio

  French actor (Born 1887).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Skitch Henderson & His Orchestra - Five Minutes More
2. Hoagy Carmichael - Ole Buttermilk Sky
3. Tony Martin - Rumers are Flying
4. Les Brown & His Orchestra (Vocal Doris Day) - The Whole World Is Singing My Song
5. Tex Beneke & The Glenn Miller Orchestra - Passe'