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| 1946 |
| | | The Indochina War breaks out in Vietnam between the French colonial forces and the Vietminh | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Rationing in Britain gets worse rather than better, with bread and potatoes now added to the list | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Titus Groan begins British author Mervyn Peake's trilogy of gothic novels | |
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| 1946 |
| | | British conductor Thomas Beecham founds the third orchestra of his career, calling it the Royal Philharmonic | |
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| 1946 January I |
| | | The Japanese emperor Hirohito renounces his traditional divine status and declares that he is mortal | |
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| 1946 January 5 |
| | | William Joyce, widely known as Lord Haw-Haw, is hanged by the British as a traitor | |
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| 1946 March 5 |
| | | Winston Churchill, in a speech in Fulton, Missouri, expresses the harsh truth that an iron curtain has descended across Europe | |
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| 1946 March 27 |
| | | Twenty-five Japanese defendants are put on trial in Tokyo, charged with war crimes | |
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| 1946 April 18 |
| | | The discredited League of Nations is finally disbanded | |
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| 1946 October 1 |
| | | Twelve of the defendants at Nuremberg are sentenced to death by hanging | |
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