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1946 - Definition and Overview |
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1946 is the common year starting on Tuesday. (see link for calendar)
Events
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Year in topic
- 1946 in film
- 1946 in literature
- 1946 in music
- 1946 in rail transport
- 1946 in sports
- 1946 in television
- February 4 – RCA demonstrates all-electronic color television system.
- February 18 - The first Washington-New York telecast through AT&T coaxial cable is termed success by engineers and viewers.
- April 22 - CBS color television program is successfully transmitted over a 450-mile coaxial cable link from New York to Washington
- May 9 - The first variety show premieres, Hour Glass, on NBC.
- June 7 - The BBC begins broadcasting again and reshows the Mickey Mouse cartoon, that had been interrupted seven years earlier at the start of the World War II.
- June 19 - The first televised heavyweight title fight between Joe Louis and Billy Conn is broadcast from Yankee Stadium. The fight was seen by 141,000 people, the largest television audience to see a fight.
- October 2 - The first TV network soap opera, Faraway Hill, airs on the DuMont Network.
- December 24 - The first church service is telecast, Grace Episcopal Church in New York, on WABD.
- ToKyo Tushin Kogyo founded, which would later become Sony
- Zoomar introduces the first professional zoom lens
Births
January
- January 3 - John Paul Jones, bassist from Led Zeppelin
- January 5 - Diane Keaton, actress
- January 6 - Syd Barrett, guitarist and singer
- January 8 - Robby Krieger, musician ("The Doors")
- January 11 - Naomi Judd, country music singer
- January 11 - John Piper, American theologian
- January 12 - George Duke, musician
- January 14 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer
- January 16 - Kabir Bedi, actor
- January 16 - Ronnie Milsap, singer
- January 16 - Katia Ricciarelli, opera singer
- January 18 - Joseph Deiss, member of the Swiss Federal Council
- January 19 - Dolly Parton, singer, actress
- January 20 - David Lynch, film director
- January 21 - Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
- January 22 - Serge Savard, Hall of Fame ice hockey player, executive
- January 24 - Michael Ontkean, actor
- January 26 - Gene Siskel, film critic (d. 1999)
- January 31 - Terry Kath, musician (d. 1978)
February-March
- February 6 - Jim Turner, American politician
- February 11 - M C Walker, CEO of Iceland Frozen Foods
- February 11 - Timothy Chambers, pediatrician
- February 14 - Bernard Dowiyogo, president of Nauru (d. 2003)
- February 14 - Gregory Hines, dancer, actor (d. 2003)
- February 20 - Jerome Geils of the J Geils band
- February 20 - Brenda Blethyn, actress
- February 21 - Tyne Daly, actress
- February 21 - Alan Rickman, actor
- February 24 - Barry Bostwick, actor
- February 25 - Franz Xaver Kroetz, dramatist
- February 27 - José Carreras, Spanish tenor
- February 28 - Robin Cook, British politician
- March 3 - Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
- March 6 - David Gilmour, musician ("Pink Floyd")
- March 7 - Peter Wolf, musician ("J Geils Band")
- March 12 - Liza Minnelli, singer and actress
- March 21 - Timothy Dalton, actor ("James Bond")
- March 22 - André Heller, artist
- March 31 - Gonzalo Márquez, Major League Baseball player (d. 1984)
April-June
- April 4 - Dave Hill, Slade, guitarist
- April 7 - Colette Besson, French runner
- April 12 - Ed O'Neill, actor
- April 25 - Talia Shire, actress
- April 30 - Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, Swedish monarch (1973- )
- May 7 - Thelma Houston, singer
- May 9 - Candice Bergen, actress
- May 10 - Donovan Leitch, musician
- May 10 - Dave Mason, musician ("Traffic")
- May 11 - Robert Jarvik, physicist, inventor
- May 17 - Udo Lindenberg, musician
- May 18 - Reggie Jackson, Baseball Hall of Famer
- May 19 - André the Giant, wrestler (d. 1993)
- May 20 - Cher, American singer
- May 22 - George Best, footballer
- May 23 - David Graham, golf champion
- May 26 - Mick Ronson, guitarist (d. 1993)
- June 6 - Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper
- June 14 - Donald Trump, American real estate magnate
- June 15 - Noddy Holder, Slade, singer
- June 23 - Kathy Wilkes
- June 24 - Ellison Onizuka, astronaut (d. 1986)
July-August
- July 2 - Richard Axel, scientist
- July 6 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
- July 6 - Sylvester Stallone, actor
- July 8 - Elizabeth Gomez, minister and poet
- July 9 - Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC (d. 1980)
- July 10 - Robert W. Jones, Minister and Writer
- July 15 - Linda Ronstadt, singer, songwriter
- July 16 - Ron Yary, Pro Football Hall of Famer
- July 22 - Mireille Mathieu, French singer
- July 25 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer, widow of Bob Marley
- July 30 - Neil Bonnett, NASCAR driver (d. 1994)
- August 3 - Jack Straw, British politician
- August 19 - Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
- August 19 - Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
- August 20 - N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
- August 25 - Rollie Fingers, baseball pitcher
- August 29 - Bob Beamon, American long jumper
September
- September 5 - Freddie Mercury, British singer
- September 7 - Francisco Varela, biologist
- September 10 - Jim Hines, American athlete
- September 10 - Don Powell, Slade, drummer
- September 15 - Tommy Lee Jones, actor (The Fugitive, Men in Black)
- September 15 - Oliver Stone, American film director (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK)
- September 21 - Moritz Leuenberger, member of the Swiss Federal Council
- September 23 - Franz Fischler, politician
- September 24 - Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
- September 30 - Héctor Lavoe, salsa music singer
October
- October 1 - Tim O'Brien, American author
- October 6 - Lloyd Doggett, American politician
- October 7 - Catharine MacKinnon
- October 8 - Margot Adler
- October 8 - Hanan Ashrawi
- October 9 - Tansu Ciller, Turkish politician
- October 10 - Pearlette Louisy
- October 13 - Edwina Currie
- October 16 - Suzanne Somers, actress
- October 17 - Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter and actor
- October 21 - Lyn Allison, Australian politician
- October 22 - Eileen Gordon, British politician
- October 23 - Graca Machel
- October 24 - Karen Silkwood
- October 26 - Pat Sajak, game show host
- October 27 - Ivan Reitman, movie director, producer
- October 29 - Kathryn J. Whitmire
- October 31 - Caroline Jackson, UK politician
November-December
- November 1 - Marina Abramovic
- November 2 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor, composer (d. 2001)
- November 4 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
- November 5 - Herman Brood, Dutch rock 'n' roll artist
- November 5 - Gram Parsons, country music/rock musician
- November 11 - Corrine Brown, US politician
- November 20 - Greg Cook, American football quarterback
- November 20 - Judy Woodruff
- November 24 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer
- November 30 - Barbara Cubin
- December 4 - Angela Browning, British politician
- December 9 - Sonia Gandhi, Indian politician
- December 16 - Trevor Pinnock, English conductor, harpsichordist
- December 18 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
- December 26 - Joyce Jillson
Deaths
- January 29 - Harry Hopkins, politician
- February 5 - George Arliss, actor
- March 23 - Gilbert N. Lewis, physical chemist.
- March 24 - Alexander Alekhine, chess champion
- April 1 - Noah Beery, actor
- April 22 - Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1872)
- May 17 - William Jefferson Blythe III, father of U.S. President Bill Clinton
- May 19 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist
- June 1 - Ion Antonescu
- June 10 - Jack Johnson, African-American boxer
- July 8 - Orrick Glenday Johns, poet & playwright
- Alfred Stock German chemist
- August 13 - H.G. Wells, science fiction writer
- October 15 - Hermann Göring, prominent Nazi leader, marshall of the Third Reich, head of the Airforce (suicide)
- October 16 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader, governor of The Netherlands during the German occupation (1940-1945) (executed)
- November 14 - Manuel de Falla, composer
- December 10 - Walter Johnson, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1887)
- December 25 - W.C. Fields, Actor/Comedian
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