| January 1 | Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god |
| January 1 | ENIAC, U.S. 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert |
| January 1 | National Assembly proclaims Hungary a republic |
| January 5 | "Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 417 performances |
| January 6 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum |
| January 7 | Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union |
| January 9 | "Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 77 performances |
| January 10 | U.N. General Assembly meets for 1st time in London |
| January 10 | U.S. Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, New Jersey |
| January 11 | Bert Bell becomes 2nd NFL commissioner, moves Chicago headquarters to Philadelphia |
| January 11 | Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator |
| January 12 | Edouardo de Filippo's "Questi Fantasmi!," premieres in Rome |
| January 12 | NFL champs Cleveland Rams given permission to move to LA |
| January 12 | "Polonaise" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 113 performances |
| January 14 | 2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed |
| January 17 | United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting |
| January 20 | F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government |
| January 21 | "Nellie Bly" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| January 22 | U.S. president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency |
| January 23 | Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA |
| January 25 | Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosis," premieres in Zurich |
| January 25 | United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor |
| January 30 | 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime |
| January 31 | Yugoslavia adopts new constitution, becomes a federal republic |
| February 1 | Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president |
| February 1 | Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Secretary-General of UN |
| February 2 | "Nellie Bly" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| February 4 | Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday," premieres in New York City |
| February 6 | "Lute Song" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 142 performances |
| February 7 | Filibuster in U.S. Senate kills FEPC bill |
| February 8 | Bela Bartoks 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Philadelphia |
| February 8 | Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties |
| February 9 | Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms |
| February 10 | 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum |
| February 13 | "Duchess Misbehaves" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| February 14 | Bank of England nationalized |
| February 15 | Bank of England nationalized |
| February 16 | 1st commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport Connecticut |
| February 16 | "Duchess Misbehaves" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| February 17 | Humanistic Covenant forms in Amsterdam |
| February 19 | Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League |
| February 21 | Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt |
| February 24 | Juan Peron elected President of Argentina |
| February 26 | 2 killed and 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia, Tennessee |
| February 27 | 4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres (New York City) |
| March 1 | British Government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years |
| March 1 | Panama accepts its new constitution |
| March 2 | Dutch troops land on East Bali |
| March 2 | Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam |
| March 2 | Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| March 3 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
| March 3 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
| March 5 | Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri |
| March 6 | France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation |
| March 7 | Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz," premieres in Zurich |
| March 7 | "Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 323 performances |
| March 8 | 1st helicopter licensed for commercial use (New York City) |
| March 9 | Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang |
| March 9 | Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses |
| March 10 | Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil |
| March 12 | Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland |
| March 14 | Belgian government of Spaak, forms |
| March 15 | British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence |
| March 16 | "Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 77 performances |
| March 19 | French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Reunion become overseas depts |
| March 19 | Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as president of U.S.S.R. |
| March 20 | Belgian government of Spaak, resigns |
| March 21 | Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933 |
| March 21 | U.N. set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx) |
| March 22 | 1st U.S. rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up) |
| March 22 | Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan |
| March 23 | 8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats North Carolina 43-40 |
| March 25 | 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto" |
| March 29 | 1st Test Cricket between Australia and New Zealand |
| March 29 | Test Cricket debuts of Lindwall, Miller and Tallon |
| March 30 | Australia beats New Zealand in cricket at 3 30pm on 2nd day |
| March 30 | Last Test Cricket appearance of Bill O'Reilly (5-14 and 3-19) |
| March 30 | "St. Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 113 performances |
| March 31 | Belgian government of Acker, forms |
| April 1 | 400,000 U.S. mine workers strike |
| April 1 | Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii |
| April 1 | Van Acker forms Belgian government (without CVP) |
| April 1 | Weight Watchers forms |
| April 5 | 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony |
| April 7 | 10th Golf Masters Championship: Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282 |
| April 7 | Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR |
| April 8 | League of Nations assembles for last time |
| April 9 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 |
| April 10 | 1st election for Japanese Diet |
| April 12 | Syria gains independence from France |
| April 13 | Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage and price freeze over |
| April 14 | "Day Before Spring" closes at National Theater New York City after 167 performances |
| April 14 | Manager Mel Ott of Giants hits 511th and final home run |
| April 16 | 1st U.S. launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt |
| April 16 | NSB mayor of Rotterdam, Netherlands, FE Muller sentence to 100 years in jail |
| April 17 | Syria declares independence from French administration |
| April 18 | "Call Me Mister" opens at National Theater New York City for 734 performances |
| April 18 | Jackie Robinson debuts as 2nd baseman for the Montreal Royals |
| April 18 | League of Nations dissolves, 3 months after United Nations starts |
| April 18 | Rome/Auerbach/Horwitt's musical "Call Me Mister," premieres in New York City |
| April 18 | U.S. recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government |
| April 19 | Yankees switch from 3rd base to 1st base dug out |
| April 20 | 1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs |
| April 20 | 50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27 |
| April 21 | SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany |
| April 22 | SED, Sozialistic Einheitspartei Deutschlands, party forms |
| April 23 | Brooklyn Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 |
| April 24 | 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, and McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame |
| April 25 | Christopher Fry's "Phoenix too Frequent," premieres in London |
| April 25 | "Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48 |
| April 27 | 1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed |
| April 29 | 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals |
| April 30 | Cleveland Indian Bob Feller's 2nd no-hitter beats New York Yankees, 1-0 |
| May 1 | Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander |
| May 1 | Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year" |
| May 2 | Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die |
| May 3 | International military tribunal in Tokyo begins |
| May 4 | 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco bay |
| May 4 | 72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6 |
| May 4 | Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped |
| May 6 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M. Schlesinger (Age of Jackson) |
| May 7 | William H. Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands |
| May 8 | Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game |
| May 9 | 1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres |
| May 9 | 1st variety show on TV "NBC's Hour Glass," premieres |
| May 9 | King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto |
| May 10 | Red Sox win 15th straight beat Yankees 5-4, DiMaggio hits Grand Slam |
| May 10 | Umberto II succeeds Victor Emmanuel III as king of Italy |
| May 11 | 1st night game at Boston Braves Field (Giants 5, Braves 1) |
| May 11 | 72nd Preakness: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:01.4 |
| May 13 | Sarwate and Banerjee add 249 for 10th wkt for Indians vs. Surrey |
| May 13 | U.S. convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death |
| May 13 | Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam |
| May 14 | Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love," premieres |
| May 16 | Musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman premieres in New York City |
| May 17 | KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections |
| May 17 | President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike |
| May 19 | Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam |
| May 20 | Cubs Claude Passeau makes his 1st error since September 21, 1941, ending pitcher's fielding record of 273 consecutive errorless chances |
| May 22 | Yankees turn triple-play and defeat Tigers' 5-3 |
| May 24 | Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager |
| May 25 | Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan |
| May 25 | Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| May 26 | 2-for-42 and hitting .048 for 1946, Mel Ott stops playing baseball |
| May 26 | Darius Milhauds 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Prague |
| May 26 | Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia |
| May 26 | Patent filed in U.S. for H-Bomb |
| May 28 | 1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yankees 1) |
| May 29 | KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands |
| May 30 | Braves Bama Rowell double shatters Bulova clock in Ebbets Field |
| May 30 | United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die |
| June 1 | 78th Belmont: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:30.8 |
| June 1 | Spijkenisse soccer team forms in Spijkenisse |
| June 2 | Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy, National Day |
| June 3 | 1st bikini bathing suit displayed, Paris |
| June 3 | International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals |
| June 3 | U.S. Supreme Court rules race separation on buses, unconstitutional |
| June 4 | Largest solar prominence, 300,000 mi/500,000 km, observed |
| June 5 | Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago, Illinois) |
| June 6 | 11 Basketball of America Association teams meet to schedule 1st season |
| June 6 | Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV |
| June 6 | Martin Kresses begins publishing "Eric the Viking" comic strip |
| June 7 | U.S. Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel |
| June 8 | "Lute Song" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 142 performances |
| June 8 | Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia |
| June 9 | 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire, Dubuque, Iowa |
| June 9 | 66,545 fans help Yankees break million attendance mark, the earliest |
| June 9 | Bhumibol Adulyadej, becomes king of Thailand |
| June 9 | Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| June 9 | New York Giant Mel Ott is 1st manager ejected from both games of a doubleheader |
| June 10 | Italian Republic established |
| June 10 | Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA |
| June 13 | 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland |
| June 13 | King Umberto II of Italy abdicates |
| June 14 | Canadian Library Association established |
| June 16 | 46th U.S. Golf Open: Lloyd Mangrum shoots a 284 at Canterbury Golf Club Cleveland |
| June 16 | "Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 1147 performances |
| June 17 | SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St. Louis |
| June 19 | 1st TV sports spectacular - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn |
| June 20 | New York City transit begins using Pennsylvania system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line |
| June 21 | 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas |
| June 21 | Bill Veeck purchases the Cleveland Indians for $2.2 million |
| June 21 | Federal judge rules Seattle club doesn't have to play returning serviceman |
| June 22 | Alec Bedser takes 7-49 vs. India on 1st day of his 1st Test cricket |
| June 24 | 11.72" (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen Wisconsin (state 24-hour record) |
| June 24 | Georges Bidault elected premier of France |
| June 26 | Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years |
| June 26 | Fred Allen's last radio show, his guest is Jack Benny |
| June 28 | Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st President of Italy |
| June 28 | Permanent radio play-by-play of Cleveland Indians games begins |
| June 29 | "Are You with It?" closes at Century Theater New York City after 264 performances |
| June 29 | "Billion Dollar Baby" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 219 performances |
| June 29 | Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist |
| June 29 | British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv |
| July 1 | Rajah cedes Sarawak to British crown |
| July 1 | U.S. drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion) |
| July 2 | Dutch Beel government forms |
| July 2 | Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam and Amsterdam |
| July 3 | 1st Dutch government of Beel forms |
| July 4 | Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die |
| July 4 | Philippines gains independence from U.S. |
| July 5 | Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show |
| July 6 | 53rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Louise Brough (62 64) |
| July 6 | 60th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Yvon Petra beats G Brown (62 64 79 57 64) |
| July 6 | "St. Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 113 performances |
| July 7 | Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint |
| July 8 | Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary |
| July 8 | "Tidbits of 1946" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| July 9 | 13th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 12-0 at Fenway Park, Boston |
| July 10 | Belgian government of Acker, resigns |
| July 11 | Kingman Douglass, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| July 12 | Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park home run |
| July 13 | "Tidbits of 1946" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| July 14 | Cleveland Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles and a home run but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 home runs with 8 RBIs |
| July 14 | Dr. Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" published |
| July 14 | Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland |
| July 15 | British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown |
| July 16 | Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in San Francisco history) |
| July 16 | U.S. court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau |
| July 21 | Jesus T. Pinerol becomes 1st native born Puerto Rican governor |
| July 22 | Estelle Bennett, rocker (Ronettes) |
| July 22 | Menachen Begin's opposition group surprise attack on King David hotel |
| July 23 | Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel |
| July 24 | 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash |
| July 24 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island |
| July 25 | 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show |
| July 25 | U.S. detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini, 5th atomic explosion |
| July 26 | President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces |
| July 27 | Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs |
| July 30 | 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico |
| August 1 | President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) |
| August 3 | Belgian government of Huysmans, forms |
| August 6 | U.S. officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court |
| August 8 | Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney and John Galbreath for $25 million |
| August 8 | India agrees to give Bhutan 32 miles |
| August 9 | 1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night |
| August 13 | Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus |
| August 16 | Great Calcutta blood bath - Moslem/Hindu riot (3-4,000 die) |
| August 17 | Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique," premieres |
| August 18 | Golf Writers Associaton of America forms |
| August 22 | Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it |
| August 22 | Mikko Hietanen wins Oslo marathon (2:24:55) |
| August 23 | 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380) |
| August 25 | 28th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland Golf Club Portland, Oregon |
| August 26 | George Orwell published "Animal Farm" |
| September 1 | 1st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Berg |
| September 1 | Greece votes for monarchy |
| September 2 | Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager |
| September 2 | Nehru forms government in India |
| September 5 | Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game |
| September 5 | "Yours Is My Heart" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 36 performances |
| September 6 | All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0) |
| September 6 | Terence Rattigan's "Winslow Boy," premieres in London |
| September 8 | 60th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (119 63) |
| September 8 | 66th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom Brown, Jr. (97 63 60) |
| September 8 | Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minors record 456 |
| September 8 | Bulgaria ends monarchy |
| September 8 | Jack Kramer wins U.S. Tennis Open |
| September 8 | San Francisco 49ers play 1st AAFC game, lose to New York Yankees 21-7 |
| September 11 | 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation |
| September 12 | Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels |
| September 13 | Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant |
| September 15 | Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats |
| September 17 | "Gypsy Lady," opens at Century Theater New York City for 79 performances |
| September 17 | "If the Shoe Fits," opens at Century Theater New York City for 20 performances |
| September 18 | Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| September 20 | Churchill argues for a "US of Europe" |
| September 21 | Indians play their final game in League Park, ending a 55-year stay |
| September 24 | Yankees set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs |
| September 26 | 1st edition of Tintin (Kuifje), publishes until June 1993 |
| September 27 | King George II of Greece returns from exile |
| September 28 | Greek king George II back in Athens |
| September 29 | 1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards and Dodgers) |
| September 29 | "Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio |
| September 29 | Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine in 10 seconds |
| September 29 | Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA |
| September 29 | NPS, Nationale Party Suriname, forms |
| September 30 | 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg |
| September 30 | Von Ribbentrop and Goering sentence to death by Nuremberg trial |
| October 1 | 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg |
| October 1 | 1st NL playoffs, Dodgers vs Cards (St. Louis wins 2 games to 0) |
| October 1 | Bob Feller 348th strikeout of season |
| October 2 | 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont |
| October 3 | Cards beat Dodgers 8-4 at Ebbets Field to win NL playoffs 2-0 |
| October 5 | "Yours Is My Heart" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 36 performances |
| October 6 | 90 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct |
| October 6 | President Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine |
| October 7 | Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet, premieres |
| October 8 | Kwo-less-shrew selects General Chiang Kai-shek as president of China |
| October 8 | Military plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die |
| October 9 | 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50 |
| October 9 | Eugene O'Neill's "Iceman Cometh," premieres in New York City |
| October 10 | Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer," premieres in Zurich |
| October 14 | Netherland and Indonesia sign cease fire |
| October 15 | Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series |
| October 15 | Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140) |
| October 15 | St. Louis Cardinals beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 43rd World Series |
| October 16 | 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials |
| October 18 | Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony, premieres |
| October 20 | Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs New York Giants |
| October 22 | 2 British ships sink near Albania |
| October 23 | U.N. General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st New York City-Flushing Meadows) |
| October 24 | Netherlands and Indonesia sign cease fire |
| October 25 | 1st trial against nazi war criminals in Neurenberg |
| October 27 | Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%) |
| October 28 | German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.S.R. |
| November 1 | Charles S. Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University |
| November 1 | Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck's right foot is amputated |
| November 1 | German "Country" Nedersaksen forms |
| November 1 | Marken soccer team forms |
| November 1 | New York Knicks 1st basketball game beat Toronto Huskies 68-66 |
| November 1 | WABC becomes WCBS radio in New York City |
| November 1 | WEAF radio changes call letters to WNBC (New York City) |
| November 1 | West German state of Niedersachsen formed |
| November 3 | Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution |
| November 4 | "Park Avenue" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 72 performances |
| November 4 | U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization formed |
| November 5 | John F. Kennedy elected to House of Representatives |
| November 7 | "Bal Negre" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 54 performances |
| November 8 | Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse," premieres in Paris |
| November 9 | President Truman ends wage/price freeze |
| November 10 | Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election |
| November 11 | New York Knicks' 1st game at Madison Square Garden loses 78-68 to Chicago Stags |
| November 12 | 1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago) |
| November 12 | Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released |
| November 13 | 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mount Greylock, MA |
| November 13 | Bradman scores 106 for an Australian XI vs. the MCC |
| November 14 | Dutch Dakota flight to Schiphol crashes, kills 11 |
| November 15 | Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP |
| November 19 | Bradman scores 119 South Australia vs. Victoria, 183 minutes, 8 fours |
| November 20 | Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," premieres in New York City |
| November 21 | Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria |
| November 21 | Harry Truman becomes 1st U.S. president to travel in a submerged sub |
| November 23 | 34th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 28-6 |
| November 23 | French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000 |
| November 23 | "Gypsy Lady" closes at Century Theater New York City after 79 performances |
| November 27 | English soccer team beats Netherlands, 8-2 |
| November 28 | French government of Bidault, resigns |
| November 28 | Landverrader Anton Mussert to death sentenced |
| November 29 | Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities |
| November 30 | Bradman scores 187 in 1st Test Cricket vs. England at the Gabba |
| December 1 | Australia compile 645 vs. India at the Gabba (Bradman 187) |
| December 3 | 12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB) |
| December 3 | U.S. government asks United Nations to order dictator Franco out of Spain |
| December 5 | President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808 |
| December 7 | Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119 |
| December 8 | Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight |
| December 11 | Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label |
| December 11 | Spain suspended from UN |
| December 11 | U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965) |
| December 12 | Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building and burying 38 |
| December 12 | Tide detergent introduced |
| December 12 | U.N. accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr |
| December 13 | Leon Blum elected French premier |
| December 14 | "Three to Make Ready" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 323 performances |
| December 14 | Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN |
| December 14 | U.N. General Assembly votes to establish United Nations HQs in New York City |
| December 15 | Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game |
| December 15 | Giants Filchock and Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt |
| December 17 | Bradman and Barnes complete 405 run 5th wkt stand, score 234 ea |
| December 17 | U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM |
| December 18 | TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run |
| December 19 | Noel Cowards musical "Pacific 1860," premieres in London |
| December 19 | War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi |
| December 20 | Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres |
| December 21 | Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086 |
| December 21 | Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," premieres |
| December 21 | "If the Shoe Fits" closes at Century Theater New York City after 20 performances |
| December 21 | Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show," premieres in Indianapolis |
| December 22 | "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 54 performances |
| December 22 | Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game |
| December 23 | Belgian Council of State forms |
| December 23 | Highest ridership in New York City subway history (8.8 million passengers) |
| December 23 | University of Tennessee refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game |
| December 24 | 4th French republic established |
| December 24 | U.S. General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor Nazi's" amnesty |
| December 25 | Constitution accepted in Taiwan |
| December 26 | 35th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0) |
| December 26 | "Beggar's Holiday" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 111 performances |
| December 26 | Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era) |
| December 26 | "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" opens at Century Theater New York City for 60 performances |
| December 31 | French troops leave Lebanon |
| December 31 | President Truman officially proclaims end of WW II |
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