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| 1946 |
| | | Frederick Ashton choreographs Symphonic Variations, to music by César Franck | |
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| 1946 |
| | | David Lean directs Trevor Howard and and Celia Johnson in Noel Coward's Brief Encounter | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Sonatine, for flute and piano, brings early success to French composer Pierre Boulez | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The Communists become the largest party in Czechoslovakia, winning 38% of the vote in a free election | |
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| 1946 |
| | | A new style of American painting, involving artists such as Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, is given the name Abstract Expressionism | |
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| 1946 |
| | | US pediatrician Benjamin Spock recommends a permissive approach in his Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, set in a down-and-out bar of the kind he had known in his youth, is performed in New York | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Victor Emmanuel III abdicates in favour of his son a month before a referendum on the Italian monarchy | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff makes his debut in Puccini's La Bohème in Reggio Calabria | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The National Insurance Act secures state benefits in Britain for the sick, old and unemployed | |
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