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History on the year of 1946

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01 Jan 1946 WW2 Emperor Showa of Japan renounced his divinity. 
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01 Jan 1946 WW2 The rationing of tires in the United States ended. 
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01 Jan 1946 WW2 Ioannis Rallis passed away. 
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01 Jan 1946 WW2 Rikichi Ando passed away. 
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01 Jan 1946 WW2 Waller was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Jan 1946 WW2 Arthur Coningham was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. 
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01 Jan 1946 WW2 The 737 Nauruan forced laborers deported by the Japanese to Truk, Caroline Islands were returned to Nauru aboard the ship Trienza. 
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01 Jan 1946 WW2 Arthur Harrison Graubart of the US Navy was named the commanding officer of the captured German cruiser USS IX-300 (formerly Prinz Eugen). 
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02 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Manta departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for San Francisco, California, United States to prepare for inactivation. 
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02 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Menhaden departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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02 Jan 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Uraga, Japan. 
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03 Jan 1946 WW2 The British Reconnaissance Corps was disbanded at the Reconnaissance Training Centre, Catterick, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom after a parade. 
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03 Jan 1946 WW2 Karl Wiligut passed away in Arolsen, Germany. 
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05 Jan 1946 WW2 Light carrier Hosho departed Kure, Japan for Wewak, New Guinea. 
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05 Jan 1946 WW2 Prince Takahito's son Princess Tomohito was born. 
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05 Jan 1946 WW2 The Soviets executed German Major General Heinrich Remlinger, the former military commandant of Pskov, Russia. 
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06 Jan 1946 WW2 I-400 arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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06 Jan 1946 WW2 I-401 arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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06 Jan 1946 WW2 I-14 arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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06 Jan 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan and embarked Japanese personnel. 
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07 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Saint Paul departed Shanghai, China. 
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07 Jan 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan. 
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08 Jan 1946 WW2 Westcott was decommissioned from service. 
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08 Jan 1946 WW2 British submarine HM Safari, reputedly the most successful Allied submarine of the Second World War, sank in the English Channel whilst under tow to the breakers. 
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08 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Tirante arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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08 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Menhaden arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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09 Jan 1946 WW2 William Leahy informed Harry Truman that Truman's disbanding of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) had been handled in a "disgraceful way", for that the overly-rapid schedule had caused the US to lose sources of intelligence across the world. 
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10 Jan 1946 WW2 László Bárdossy passed away. 
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10 Jan 1946 WW2 Chinese Nationalist troops captured Pingquan County, Hebei Province, China. 
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10 Jan 1946 WW2 Sergei Kruglov officially assumed the role as the head of Soviet NKVD. 
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11 Jan 1946 WW2 Detroit was decommissioned from service. 
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12 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Marcus Island departed San Diego, California, United States for the Panama Canal Zone. 
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13 Jan 1946 WW2 USS IX-300 (former German cruiser Prinz Eugen) departed from Copenhagen, Denmark. 
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14 Jan 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Wewak, New Guinea and embarked Japanese personnel. 
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16 Jan 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Wewak, New Guinea. 
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16 Jan 1946 WW2 Alexander Novikov submitted plans for a reorganization of the Soviet Air Force to Joseph Stalin. 
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17 Jan 1946 WW2 HMS Colossus was drydocked at the Selborne drydock at Simonstown, South Africa for repairs and refitting. 
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18 Jan 1946 WW2 Sproston was decommissioned from service. 
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18 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Wisconsin arrived at Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States. 
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19 Jan 1946 WW2 General Douglas MacArthur established the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo, Japan to try Japanese war criminals. 
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19 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Mero departed the Panama Canal Zone. 
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22 Jan 1946 WW2 The Supreme National Tribunal of Poland was established to preside over trials of German war criminals. 
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23 Jan 1946 WW2 Soviet SMERSH agents attempted to kidnap former German agent Richard Klaus (also known as Fritz Klatt and Max) in Austria, but the Soviets were thwarted by the Americans. The Soviets were interned overnight and were returned to the Soviet occupation zone on the following day. 
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23 Jan 1946 WW2 The hearing against Hans Fritzsche began in Nürnberg, Germany. 
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23 Jan 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Uraga, Japan and disembarked personnel. 
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24 Jan 1946 WW2 Kitty Hawk was decommissioned from service. 
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24 Jan 1946 WW2 Harry Truman secretly made Sidney Souers the chief of the newly-established Central Intelligence Group in a ceremony involving black cloaks and wooden daggers. This organization was not recognized by the Pentagon nor the FBI, and it would remain active for a very short period of time as all Truman wanted out of Souers was a concise daily report on intelligence matters so that Truman could save some time. 
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26 Jan 1946 WW2 Severin Dobrovolsky, a former White Russian military officer who later became loyal to the Soviet Union and acted as a Soviet spy in Finland, was executed for counter-revolutionary activities. 
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26 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Saint Paul arrived at Terminal Island Naval Shipyard near Los Angeles, California, United States for repairs. 
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26 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay arrived at Seattle, Washington, United States, bringing back US servicemen from Pacific bases. 
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27 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Charr arrived at San Diego, California, United States. 
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29 Jan 1946 WW2 Harry Hopkins, one of Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisers and a key policy maker in creating the Lend-Lease Act, died of stomach cancer in New York, United States. 
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29 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Segundo entered Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States for overhaul. 
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30 Jan 1946 WW2 HMS Activity was placed in Category B Reserve. 
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30 Jan 1946 WW2 Johann Georg Richert was found guilty and was executed in Minsk, Byelorussia. 
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01 Feb 1946 WW2 Isherwood was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Feb 1946 WW2 Soviet prosecutors in Nürnberg, Germany brought out Friedrich Paulus and Erich Buschenhagen by surprise as witnesses in the war crimes trials. 
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02 Feb 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Uraga, Japan. 
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02 Feb 1946 WW2 USS Marcus Island arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, United States. 
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03 Feb 1946 WW2 Friedrich Jeckeln was found guilty and was executed in Riga, Latvia. 
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05 Feb 1946 WW2 Milan Nedić passed away. 
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05 Feb 1946 WW2 US Army attorney Colonel Harry Clarke wrote to US Secretary of War Robert Patterson in request of clemency for General Tomoyuki Yamashita. 
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05 Feb 1946 WW2 USS Mero arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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06 Feb 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan and embarked Japanese personnel. 
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07 Feb 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan. 
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08 Feb 1946 WW2 Richard Heppner was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. 
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09 Feb 1946 WW2 Hammerhead was decommissioned from service. 
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09 Feb 1946 WW2 At the Bolshoi Theater in central Moscow, Russia, Joseph Stalin made a speech which effectively claimed that the Western Allies played little or no part in the Soviet victory over Germany in WW2. 
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12 Feb 1946 WW2 U-3514 became the last captured German submarine to be scuttled during Operation Deadlight at 1004 hours. 
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12 Feb 1946 WW2 USS Brill arrived at San Diego, California, United States. 
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13 Feb 1946 WW2 Tuscaloosa was decommissioned from service. 
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15 Feb 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Fauro Island, Solomon Islands and embarked Japanese personnel. 
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16 Feb 1946 WW2 Drum was decommissioned from service. 
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16 Feb 1946 WW2 Heavy cruiser USS Oregon City (CA-122) was commissioned with Captain Burtnett Kent Culver in command. 
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16 Feb 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Fauro Island, Soloman Islands. 
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18 Feb 1946 WW2 Du Yuming was secretly flown to Beiping, China for treatment of his kidney ailments. 
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19 Feb 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Torokina, Solomon Islands and embarked Japanese personnel. 
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19 Feb 1946 WW2 USS Cabrilla conducted exercises in the Panama Canal Zone. 
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19 Feb 1946 WW2 Alan Turing presented a paper that revealed his design of a stored-program computer, but he was scrutized by the British government as it contained too much secret technology developed during WW2. 
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21 Feb 1946 WW2 Submarine R-1 sank in 6.4 meters of water at Key West, Florida, United States. 
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21 Feb 1946 WW2 In Nürnberg, Germany, Hans Fritzsche was shown a Soviet documentary about the destruction of Eastern European cities in the war and broke down. 
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22 Feb 1946 WW2 General Seishiro Itagaki formally surrendered the Japanese Seventh Area Army to Lieutenant General F. W. Messervy at a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. 
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22 Feb 1946 WW2 USS Mero departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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23 Feb 1946 WW2 Japanese General Yamashita executed by hanging at Los Banos Prison Camp near Manila. 
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23 Feb 1946 WW2 USS Gabilan was decommissioned from service at New London, Connecticut, United States and was assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. 
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24 Feb 1946 WW2 Submarine R-1 was raised from her sunken state. 
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25 Feb 1946 WW2 Franz Halder was interrogated by US Army attorney Captain Sam Harris; during the interrogation, Halder revealed the plan and the history of the 1938 plot against Adolf Hitler (which was never launched). 
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25 Feb 1946 WW2 The Red Army of the Soviet Union was officially renamed the Soviet Army. 
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26 Feb 1946 WW2 USS Sterlet departed San Francisco, California, United States. 
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27 Feb 1946 WW2 Marblehead was sold for scrap. 
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27 Feb 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Uraga, Japan and disembarked personnel. 
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27 Feb 1946 WW2 USS Alabama departed San Pedro, California, United States for Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, United States. 
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28 Feb 1946 WW2 USS ABSD-1 prepared for inactivation while at Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands. 
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28 Feb 1946 WW2 Henry Arnold was removed from the active list of the US Army Air Force due to a heart arrhythmia. 
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01 Mar 1946 WW2 Wedderburn was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Mar 1946 WW2 The Soviet Council of Commissars approved the prmotion of Vasilii Stalin, the son of Joseph Stalin, to the rank of major general; Vyacheslav Molotov personally called Vasilii Stalin to share the news, but Vasilii Stalin was too drunk to understand. 
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01 Mar 1946 WW2 The United States and China formally ended the Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) agreement. 
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01 Mar 1946 WW2 USS Mero arrived at San Francisco Bay, California, United States. 
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01 Mar 1946 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, United States for inactivation work. 
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02 Mar 1946 WW2 USS Seahorse was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, United States. 
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02 Mar 1946 WW2 USS Spot completed her duty with anti-submarine warfare training units at San Diego, California, United States. 
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04 Mar 1946 WW2 Eirik Labonne was made the Resident-General of French Morocco, replacing Gabriel Puaux. 
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05 Mar 1946 WW2 Iwane Matsui entered Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan. 
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05 Mar 1946 WW2 Winston Churchill gave the "Iron Curtain" speech at Fulton College (now Westminster College), Missouri, United States. 
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06 Mar 1946 WW2 Ho Chi Minh signed an agreement with France which recognized Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. 
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06 Mar 1946 WW2 USS Pintado was decommissioned from service. 
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11 Mar 1946 WW2 Rudolf Höss, who had been living for the past year as a farmer under the pseudonym Franz Lang, was arrested by British troops. 
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11 Mar 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Rabaul, New Britain and embarked Japanese personnel. 
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11 Mar 1946 WW2 Soviet chief prosecutor Roman Rudenko sent a letter to US chief prosecutor Robert Jackson, asking the US prosecution team in Nürnberg, Germany not to bring up the topics of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, borders with Poland, and other sensitive issues. 
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12 Mar 1946 WW2 Ferenc Szálasi passed away. 
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12 Mar 1946 WW2 Regarding the countless German civilian deaths as the result of Allied bombing, Wing Commander Millington, MP of Chelmsford, said at the House of Commons "We want - that is, the people who served in Bomber Command of the Royal Air Force and their next-of-kin - a categorical assurance that the work we did was militarily and strategically justified." 
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12 Mar 1946 WW2 Herman Göring's attorney Dr. Otto Stahmer convinced the war crimes tribunal in Nürnberg, Germany to investigate further into the Soviet version of the description of the Katyn massacre. 
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12 Mar 1946 WW2 Dragoljub Mihailovic was found and captured by Yugoslavian Communists in eastern Bosnia. 
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13 Mar 1946 WW2 Submarine R-1 was sold to Macey O. Smith of Miami, Florida, United States for scrap. 
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13 Mar 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Rabaul, New Britain. 
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14 Mar 1946 WW2 Werner von Blomberg passed away. 
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14 Mar 1946 WW2 Prichett was decommissioned from service. 
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14 Mar 1946 WW2 At the Nuremberg Trials, Hermann Göring said that the Spanish Civil War was used by the Luftwaffe to test out newly designed equipment and to battle-harden its personnel. 
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14 Mar 1946 WW2 USS Mero arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States and was assigned to the 19th Fleet. 
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15 Mar 1946 WW2 The Greek Civil War began. 
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15 Mar 1946 WW2 Nikolai Voznesensky stepped down as the First Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union. 
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15 Mar 1946 WW2 Georgy Malenkov stepped down as the deputy of the Soviet Council of Commissars. 
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15 Mar 1946 WW2 Joseph Stalin renamed all Soviet commissariats to ministries. 
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16 Mar 1946 WW2 Du Yuming underwent a surgery in Beiping, China, removing his left kidney. 
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17 Mar 1946 WW2 Dai Li passed away in an aircraft accident in Nanjing, China. 
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17 Mar 1946 WW2 USS Cabrilla completed exercises in the Panama Canal Zone. 
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18 Mar 1946 WW2 Georgy Malenkov and Lavrentiy Beria were made full members of the Soviet Politburo. 
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19 Mar 1946 WW2 Captain Frank Robinson Walker was named the commanding officer of USS Astoria. 
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19 Mar 1946 WW2 The Soviet Council of Commissars was renamed the Council of Ministers. Joseph Stalin remained as the chairman of the council. 
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19 Mar 1946 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria was named one of the deputies of the newly renamed Soviet Council of Ministers. 
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19 Mar 1946 WW2 Sergei Kruglov was named the Minister of Internal Affairs (MVD) in the Soviet Council of Ministers. 
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19 Mar 1946 WW2 Vsevolod Merkulov was named the Minister of State Security (MGB) in the Soviet Council of Ministers. 
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19 Mar 1946 WW2 USS Puffer arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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20 Mar 1946 WW2 USS Hackleback was decommissioned from service at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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22 Mar 1946 WW2 Robert Saundby retired from the RAF on medical grounds. 
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22 Mar 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan and embarked Japanese personnel. She departed later in the same day. 
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22 Mar 1946 WW2 USS Missouri departed the United States with the remains of Turkish Ambassador Mehmet Munir Ertegun. 
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23 Mar 1946 WW2 Mikhail Rodionov became the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR. 
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23 Mar 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kagoshima, Japan and disembarked personnel. She departed later on the same day. 
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23 Mar 1946 WW2 USS Sargent Bay arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, United States for inactivation. 
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23 Mar 1946 WW2 Henry Arnold was promoted to the permanent rank of General of the Army. 
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24 Mar 1946 WW2 Soviet prosecutor Yurii Pokrovsky escorted Nikolai Zorya's body from Nürnberg, Germany to Leipzig, Germany; the documentation Pokrovsky carried noted that Zorya was a private rather than his actual rank of major general. 
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25 Mar 1946 WW2 Tranquility was decommissioned from service. 
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25 Mar 1946 WW2 HMS Activity was sold to the civilian firm Glen Lines; she was to be renamed Breconshire. 
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25 Mar 1946 WW2 USS Iowa returned to the United States from Japan. 
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25 Mar 1946 WW2 Rudolf Hess' attorney Dr. Alfred Seidl brought evidence concerning the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to the war crimes trial in Nürnberg, Germany. The evidence would not be allowed to be entered. 
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26 Mar 1946 WW2 US 83rd Infantry Division returned to the United States from Europe. 
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26 Mar 1946 WW2 Long Island was decommissioned from service. 
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26 Mar 1946 WW2 HMS Colossus completed her refitting and repairs at the Selborne drydock at Simonstown, South Africa. 
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27 Mar 1946 RELIGIOUS Members of Baptist congregations in Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks met at Anchorage to form the Alaska Southern Baptist Convention.
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28 Mar 1946 WW2 Commanding officer Captain Richard Oliver of USS Sargent Bay was relieved by Commander Milton Worley. 
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28 Mar 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Busan, Korea and embarked Japanese personnel. She departed later on the same day. 
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29 Mar 1946 WW2 Submarine Marlin was sold to Boston Metal Company, Baltimore, Maryland, United States for scrap. 
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30 Mar 1946 WW2 Over 1,000 Germans were arrested by the Allied occupation administration for the attempt to re-organize the Nazi Party. 
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31 Mar 1946 WW2 Young was decommissioned from service. 
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31 Mar 1946 WW2 Lord Gort passed away. 
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31 Mar 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Uraga, Japan and disembarked personnel. She entered drydock for repairs. 
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01 Apr 1946 WW2 Commander Jack Seymour became the commanding officer of USS Charr. 
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01 Apr 1946 WW2 Katsuragi was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Apr 1946 WW2 I-58 was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Apr 1946 WW2 The US Navy conducted a mass scuttling of captured enemy warships. Twenty-one surviving giant Japanese submarines (including the infamous I-58) were among the vessels destroyed. 
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01 Apr 1946 WW2 Portions of the Alaska-Canadian Highway physically located in Canada were turned over to the Canadian government. 
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01 Apr 1946 WW2 Roderick Carr was named the commanding officer of the Royal Indian Air Force. 
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01 Apr 1946 WW2 I-402 was scuttled 60 miles off Sasebo, Japan at 1300 hours. 
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02 Apr 1946 WW2 Pierre Charles Cournarie stepped down as the Governor-General of French West Africa. 
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03 Apr 1946 WW2 Masaharu Homma passed away. 
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04 Apr 1946 WW2 SMERSH agents arrested former Soviet Aviation Industry Commissar Aleksei Shakhurin. 
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04 Apr 1946 WW2 USS S-35 was sunk as a target off the Hawaiian Islands. 
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05 Apr 1946 WW2 US 83rd Infantry Division was deactivated. 
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05 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Wake Island was decommissioned from service. 
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05 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Missouri arrived at Istanbul, Turkey with the remains of Turkish Ambassador Mehmet Munir Ertegun. 
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08 Apr 1946 WW2 The League of Nations held its final meeting. 
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09 Apr 1946 WW2 Ion Antonescu, Mihai Antonescu, and Kristia Pantasi were returned to Romania for trial. 
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10 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Missouri arrived at Piraeus, Greece. 
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11 Apr 1946 WW2 Joseph Stalin informed the Soviet Politburo explaining why former Soviet Aviation Industry Commissar Aleksei Shakhurin and his colleagues were arrested, centering largely on their responsibility for manufacturing faulty aircraft during WW2. 
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15 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Sea Cat arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States for overhaul. 
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16 Apr 1946 WW2 Du Yuming arrived at Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. 
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16 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Dragonet was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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17 Apr 1946 WW2 Syria became independent from France. 
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17 Apr 1946 WW2 Escort carrier Wake Island was struck from the US Naval Register. 
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17 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Wasp accidentally ran aground off New Jersey, United States. 
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18 Apr 1946 WW2 Daly was decommissioned from service. 
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18 Apr 1946 WW2 Craven was decommissioned from service. 
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18 Apr 1946 WW2 Gridley was decommissioned from service. 
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19 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Makin Island was decommissioned from service at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington, United States. 
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19 Apr 1946 WW2 Escort carrier Wake Island was sold for scrap to the Boston Metals Company of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. 
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20 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at Qingdao, China. 
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22 Apr 1946 WW2 Alexander Novikov was stripped of his rank and was arrested for failing to produce reconnaissance aircraft matching those of the United States. 
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23 Apr 1946 WW2 Alexander Novikov was tortured under imprisonment. 
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23 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Brill departed San Diego, California, United States. 
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24 Apr 1946 WW2 Joseph Stalin met with Lavrentiy Beria, Andrei Zhdanov, Georgy Malenkov, Anastas Mikoyan, Viktor Abakumov, Vsevolod Merkulov, and Sergei Ogoltsov over the reorganization of the Soviet Ministry for State Security (MGB). 
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24 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Preston was decommissioned from service and was placed into the Pacific Reserve Fleet. 
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25 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Barbero was decommissioned and placed in reserve while still in commission. 
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26 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Missouri departed Piraeus, Greece. 
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27 Apr 1946 WW2 Bruce Fraser was made the First and Principal naval Aide-de-Camp to the King. 
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28 Apr 1946 WW2 Chinese Nationalist troops launched a new offensive in northeastern China against Chinese communist forces. 
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29 Apr 1946 WW2 Apogon was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Apr 1946 WW2 28 former Japanese leaders were indicted as war criminals at Tokyo, Japan. 
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30 Apr 1946 WW2 James Lacey became the first Spitfire fighter pilot to fly over Japan. 
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30 Apr 1946 WW2 The Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan was officially disbanded. 
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01 May 1946 WW2 USS Rock was decommissioned from service and was placed into the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. 
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01 May 1946 WW2 USS Brill began a period of repair at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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01 May 1946 WW2 Prince Yasuhiko was interrogated at the office of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Tokyo, Japan. 
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02 May 1946 WW2 Lansdowne was decommissioned from service. 
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02 May 1946 WW2 Bailey was decommissioned from service. 
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02 May 1946 WW2 Benjamin Kelsey was promoted to the rank of major. 
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04 May 1946 WW2 Launched by Mrs. J. Hamilton Stubbs, HMCS Athabaskan was the last Tribal-class destroyer to be completed. Commissioned on 20 Jan 1948 her first commanding officer was Commander J. S. Davis RCN. Athabaskan saw considerable service in the Korean War and remained in Canadian service until Sep 1964, after which she was gradually run down and finally broken up in Italy in Jul 1969. 
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04 May 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru completed its repairs at Uraga, Japan. 
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04 May 1946 WW2 N. A. Rozanov stepped down as GUKR SMERSH's chief in the 2nd Byelorussian Front. 
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05 May 1946 WW2 Dong Zhao was awarded the Order of Victory of Resistance against Aggression. 
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06 May 1946 WW2 Thorn was decommissioned from service. 
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06 May 1946 WW2 Viktor Abakumov submitted the names of Sergei Ogoltsov, Nikolai Selivanovsky, Afanasii Blinov, Nikolai Kovalchuk, and Mikhail Svinelupov as candidates to be his deputies at the Soviet Ministry for State Security (MGB). 
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06 May 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Uraga, Japan. 
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07 May 1946 WW2 Anton Mussert passed away. 
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07 May 1946 WW2 Vsevolod Merkulov was dismissed as the head of the Soviet Ministry for State Security (MGB) by the Soviet Politburo. 
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07 May 1946 WW2 Soviet Politburo named Viktor Abakumov the head of the Soviet Ministry for State Security (MGB). 
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07 May 1946 WW2 Commander Warren Ronald Thompson was named the commanding officer of USS Ticonderoga. 
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08 May 1946 WW2 Alexander Novikov was tortured under imprisonment, leading to a forced confession and being sentenced to a labor camp. 
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10 May 1946 WW2 USS IX-300 (former German cruiser Prinz Eugen) departed for Honolulu, Hawaii. 
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10 May 1946 WW2 George Brett retired from the US Army at the rank of major general. 
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10 May 1946 WW2 The Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH merged with the MGB; Viktor Abakumov was made the head of this larger organization. 
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10 May 1946 WW2 USS Segundo completed her overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
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11 May 1946 WW2 USS Pompon was decommissioned from service at New London, Connecticut, United States and placed in the New London Group of the US Atlantic Reserve Fleet. 
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13 May 1946 WW2 Adelaide was decommissioned from service. 
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14 May 1946 WW2 USS Baya was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
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15 May 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Menado, Celebes, Dutch East Indies and embarked Japanese personnel. She departed later on the same day. 
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16 May 1946 WW2 Lardner was decommissioned from service. 
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16 May 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Morotai, Moluccan Islands and embarked Japanese personnel. She departed later on the same day. 
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18 May 1946 WW2 USS Gunnel was decommissioned from service at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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19 May 1946 WW2 Chinese Nationalist troops captured Siping, Liaobei Province, China. 
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20 May 1946 WW2 Natoma Bay was decommissioned from service. 
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21 May 1946 WW2 Canadian Manhattan Project Louis Slotin accidentally set of a prompt critical reaction when he allowed two beryllium hemispheres to touch with a plutonium core in the center. He realized his mistake immediately and lifted the upper hemisphere with his left hand, averting disaster, but not before he received 2,100 rems of radiation. He was rushed to the hospital. The plutonium core involved in this accident was the same one in the accident with physicist Harry Daghlian in 1945. 
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21 May 1946 WW2 Charles J. Badger was decommissioned from service. 
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21 May 1946 WW2 LST-1 was decommissioned from service. 
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21 May 1946 WW2 Rudolf Hess' attorney Dr. Alfred Seidl visited Soviet prosecutor office in Nürnberg, Germany and spoke with Major General of Justice Nikolai Zorya. 
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22 May 1946 WW2 The secret clauses of the Molotov-Robbentrop Pact was published by newspaper to Soviet dismay. 
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22 May 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Balikpapan, Borneo and embarked Japanese personnel. She departed later on the same day. 
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22 May 1946 WW2 Shigeru Yoshida became the 45th Prime Minister and the Demobilization Minister of Japan. 
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22 May 1946 WW2 G. S. Bolotin-Balyasny stepped down as GUKR SMERSH's chief in the 3rd Byelorussian Front; Colonel Pyotr P. Timofeev stepped down from a similar positions in the 2nd Ukrainian Front. 
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23 May 1946 WW2 Chinese Nationalist troops captured Changchun, Jilin Province, China. 
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23 May 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Samarinda, Borneo and departed later on the same day. 
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23 May 1946 WW2 Soviet Major General of Justice Nikolai Zorya was found killed in his hotel room with a gunshot wound to his head. 
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24 May 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Makassar, Celebes, Dutch East Indies and embarked Japanese personnel. She departed later on the same day. 
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25 May 1946 WW2 Rudolf Höss was handed over to Polish authorities. 
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25 May 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Bali, Dutch East Indies and embarked Japanese personnel. She departed later on the same day. 
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26 May 1946 WW2 Josias became the head of the House of Waldeck and Pyrmont upon the death of his father. 
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27 May 1946 WW2 I. P. Konovalov stepped down as GUKR SMERSH's chief in the 4th Ukranian Front; A. P. Misyurev, V. P. Rogov, and I. T. Rusak stepped down from a similar position in the 1st Baltic Front, 3rd Byelorussian Front, and Karelian Front, respectively. 
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28 May 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Morotai, Moluccan Islands and embarked Japanese personnel. She departed later on the same day. 
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28 May 1946 WW2 USS Cassin Young was decommissioned. 
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28 May 1946 WW2 I-14 was scuttled 8 miles off Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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28 May 1946 WW2 Ramón Magsaysay was elected to the Philippine House of Representatives. 
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30 May 1946 WW2 Canadian Manhattan Project Louis Slotin, after receiving a fatal dose of radiation during an accident on 21 May, passed away in a hospital. 
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31 May 1946 WW2 Piranha was decommissioned from service. 
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31 May 1946 WW2 Irwin was decommissioned from service. 
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31 May 1946 WW2 Chen Cheng was relieved from his position as the head of the political bureau of the Nationalist military, and was named the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 
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31 May 1946 WW2 I-401 was scuttled by two torpedoes from submarine USS Cabezon off Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii; the torpedoes hit her at 1051 hours and she sank at 1058 hours. 
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31 May 1946 WW2 USS ABSD-1 was decommissioned from service at Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands. 
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31 May 1946 WW2 USS Menhaden was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. She was placed in the US Navy Pacific Reserve Fleet. 
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01 Jun 1946 WW2 Cumberland was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Jun 1946 WW2 During a Soviet High Military Council meeting Joseph Stalin accused Georgy Zhukov of plotting. Zhukov was in turn demoted to head the Odessa Military District. 
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01 Jun 1946 WW2 Ivan Konev replaced Georgy Zhukov as the head of Soviet Ground Troops. 
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01 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at Shanghai, China. 
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01 Jun 1946 WW2 Ion Antonescu was executed in Romania. 
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01 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Whale was decommissioned from service. 
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02 Jun 1946 WW2 Louis Slotin was buried in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 
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02 Jun 1946 WW2 Captain C. S. Williams stepped down as the commanding officer of USS ABSD-1. 
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03 Jun 1946 WW2 Mikhail Kalinin passed away. 
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03 Jun 1946 WW2 Gongbo Chen passed away. 
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04 Jun 1946 WW2 I-400 was scuttled by torpedoes from USS Trumpetfish off Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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04 Jun 1946 WW2 S. F. Kozhevnikov stepped down as GUKR SMERSH's chief in the Leningrad Front. 
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06 Jun 1946 WW2 Fearing the United States would scale back aid if he did not comply, Chiang Kaishek accepted George Marshall's request for the Nationalists to halt their so far successful offensive against the Chinese Communists in northeastern China by announcing a 15-day truce. In the mean time, Marshall would naively attempt to engage with the Communists in peace negotiations. 
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08 Jun 1946 WW2 Myoko was decommissioned from service. 
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08 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Cero was decommissioned from service at New London, Connecticut, United States and was placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. 
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09 Jun 1946 WW2 Joseph Stalin issued a secret order to denounce Georgy Zhukov. 
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10 Jun 1946 WW2 Casablanca was decommissioned from service. 
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10 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Manta was decommissioned from service and was placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet. 
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10 Jun 1946 WW2 The US III Amphibious Corps (IIIAC) was redesignated as Marine Forces, China, and greatly down-sized. 
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10 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Shanghai, China. 
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12 Jun 1946 WW2 Saufley was decommissioned from service. 
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12 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Bluefish arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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13 Jun 1946 WW2 Mihai Antonescu passed away. 
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13 Jun 1946 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura stepped down as a Privy Councillor. 
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14 Jun 1946 WW2 Kyne was decommissioned from service. 
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14 Jun 1946 WW2 Bell was decommissioned from service. 
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15 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Croaker was decommissioned from service and was placed into the US Navy Atlantic Reserve Fleet. 
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15 Jun 1946 WW2 Shigeru Yoshida stepped down as the Demobilization Minister. 
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15 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Mero was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States and was assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet. 
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16 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Macabi was decommissioned from service. 
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16 Jun 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived in Otaka, Japan and disembarked personnel. 
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17 Jun 1946 WW2 Louisville was decommissioned from service. 
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17 Jun 1946 WW2 Hundreds of Mexican Baceros farm labourers in the United States went on strike for higher wages. Despite the intervention of the Mexican Consul the strike was broken within a fortnight without any increase in wages or repatriation back to Mexico. 
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19 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Spot was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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20 Jun 1946 WW2 St. Louis was decommissioned from service. 
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22 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Cod was decommissioned from service. 
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22 Jun 1946 WW2 The trial against Arthur Greiser at the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland began. 
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22 Jun 1946 WW2 Sargo was decommissioned from service. 
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22 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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23 Jun 1946 WW2 Sargent Bay was decommissioned from service. 
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23 Jun 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Kure, Japan. 
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24 Jun 1946 WW2 Nashville was decommissioned from service. 
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24 Jun 1946 WW2 Joseph Rochefort, not getting the sea command that he wanted, requested retirement. 
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26 Jun 1946 WW2 Yosuke Matsuoka passed away. 
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26 Jun 1946 WW2 Sawfish was decommissioned from service. 
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26 Jun 1946 WW2 Helm was decommissioned from service. 
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26 Jun 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived in Shanghai, China and embarked Japanese personnel. 
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26 Jun 1946 WW2 Raizo Tanaka retired from military service. 
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27 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Trepang was decommissioned from service and entered the reserves at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States. 
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28 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Puffer was decommissioned from service, but would be periodically used to train personnel of the US Navy Reserve. 
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28 Jun 1946 WW2 Hans Fritzsche denied all accusations against him while in court in Nürnberg, Germany. When Roman Rudenko reminded him that he had previously signed a confession, Fritzsche told the court that he had been forced to sign it. 
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28 Jun 1946 WW2 Charles Sweeney, the pilot of Bockscar that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, retired from the United States Army. 
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29 Jun 1946 WW2 Biscayne was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Jun 1946 WW2 Henry Arnold retired from active military service. 
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01 Jul 1946 WW2 Operation Crossroads: The United States conducted test 'Able' in the Bikini Islands, which saw an atomic detonation in the air. 
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01 Jul 1946 WW2 USS IX-300 (former German cruiser Prinz Eugen) was a target ship during the Able atomic test of Operation Crossroads, sustaining light damage. 
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01 Jul 1946 WW2 Steamer Bay was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Jul 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Shanghai, China. 
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01 Jul 1946 WW2 Prosecutors of Allied nations cross-examined witnesses in Nürnberg, Germany regarding the Katyn massacre. 
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01 Jul 1946 WW2 USS Columbia completed her duties as a training ship for US Naval Reserve personnel. Commander Henry F. Gorski was named her new commanding officer, relieving Captain Bruce B. Adell. 
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02 Jul 1946 WW2 Émile Bertin was relieved of her duty as the French flagship at Indochina. 
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02 Jul 1946 WW2 Prosecutors of Allied nations cross-examined witnesses in Nürnberg, Germany regarding the Katyn massacre. 
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03 Jul 1946 WW2 Phoenix was decommissioned from service. 
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04 Jul 1946 WW2 The Philippine Islands were granted independence by the United States, forming the Republic of the Philippines. 
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05 Jul 1946 WW2 USS Copahee was decommissioned from service at Tacoma, Washington, United States. 
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05 Jul 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Uraga, Japan and disembarked personnel. She entered drydock for repairs. 
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06 Jul 1946 WW2 USS Tirante was decommissioned from service for the first time. 
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06 Jul 1946 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay was decommissioned from service. 
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07 Jul 1946 WW2 The trial against Arthur Greiser at the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland ended. 
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08 Jul 1946 WW2 Baltimore was decommissioned from service. 
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09 Jul 1946 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's request for retirement was approved by the US Navy. 
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11 Jul 1946 WW2 Escort carrier Makin Island was stricken from the US Naval Register. 
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14 Jul 1946 WW2 Arthur Greiser passed away. 
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15 Jul 1946 WW2 Cotten was decommissioned from service. 
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16 Jul 1946 WW2 Albert W. Grant was decommissioned from service. 
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16 Jul 1946 WW2 Augusta was decommissioned from service. 
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17 Jul 1946 WW2 Dragoljub Mihailovic was executed by firing squad in Yugoslavia. 
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19 Jul 1946 WW2 New Mexico was decommissioned from service. 
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20 Jul 1946 WW2 Pogy was decommissioned from service. 
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20 Jul 1946 WW2 Tirante was decommissioned from service. 
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21 Jul 1946 WW2 Douglas Bader retired from the British Royal Air Force at the rank of group captain. 
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21 Jul 1946 WW2 A prototype McDonnell FH-1 Phantom naval fighter made the first landing by an American jet aboard an aircraft carrier, the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. 
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22 Jul 1946 WW2 Zionist terrorist Menachem Begin blew up the British headquarters in Palestine. 
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23 Jul 1946 WW2 USS Sargent Bay was placed in reserve. 
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23 Jul 1946 WW2 Polish destroyer Garland was decommissioned from service and was returned to Britain. 
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25 Jul 1946 WW2 Operation Crossroads: The United States conducted test 'Baker' in the Bikini Islands, which saw an atomic detonation under the sea. 
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25 Jul 1946 WW2 USS IX-300 (former German cruiser Prinz Eugen) was a target ship during the Baker atomic test of Operation Crossroads, sustaining damage below the waterline. 
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25 Jul 1946 WW2 USS Skipjack was sunk during the atomic bomb blast at Bikini Atoll in Operation Crossroads. 
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26 Jul 1946 WW2 The Japanese Mongolian Garrison Army effectively defunct since the end of WW2, was officially disbanded by the government of Japan. 
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26 Jul 1946 WW2 USS Sea Cat completed her overhaul work at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
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29 Jul 1946 WW2 Chinese communist forces attacked an US Marines truck convoy. 
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31 Jul 1946 WW2 USS Petrof Bay was decommissioned from service. 
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31 Jul 1946 WW2 Manila Bay was decommissioned from service. 
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31 Jul 1946 WW2 Baishiyi Airfield near Chongqing, China closed. 
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01 Aug 1946 WW2 US President Harry Truman signed the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, placing nuclear weapon development in the United States in civilian hands. 
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01 Aug 1946 WW2 USS Saint Paul arrived at Terminal Island Naval Shipyard near Los Angeles, California, United States for a scheduled overhaul. 
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02 Aug 1946 WW2 General Andrey Vlasov was executed by the Soviets for treason. 
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02 Aug 1946 WW2 Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was sentenced to death; the sentence would later be commuted to an imprisonment term. 
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03 Aug 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokohama, Japan for repairs and maintenance. 
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05 Aug 1946 WW2 Anzio was decommissioned from service. 
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07 Aug 1946 WW2 HMCS Nootka (R96) was commissioned with Commander H. S. Rayner in command. 
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07 Aug 1946 WW2 USS Cabrilla was decommissioned from service. 
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07 Aug 1946 WW2 USS Hoe was decommissioned from service at New London, Connecticut, United States and was placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. 
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08 Aug 1946 WW2 The Convair B-36 Peacemaker long-range strategic bomber took flight for the first time. It was the largest aircraft ever to go into service with the USAF. 
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12 Aug 1946 WW2 Harry Truman declared the second Monday of August the Victory Day holiday; today only US state of RI still celebrates it. 
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12 Aug 1946 WW2 USS Sea Cat began a simulated war patrol across the Pacific Ocean from United States to China. 
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12 Aug 1946 WW2 He Yingqin was made a member of the committee overseeing the care of Sun Yatsen's tomb in Nanjing, China. 
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14 Aug 1946 WW2 Sanborn was decommissioned from service. 
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15 Aug 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru completed its repairs and maintenance at Yokohama, Japan and was returned to civilian service. 
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16 Aug 1946 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was struck from the list of Japanese vessels used to repatriot overseas servicemen. 
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16 Aug 1946 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu of Fushimi away in Tokyo, Japan. 
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17 Aug 1946 WW2 Darlowo, Poland (formerly Rügenwalde, Germany) began a second round of deportation of its German citizens. By 1949 only about 70 ethnic Germans would remain in the town. 
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20 Aug 1946 WW2 Joseph Stalin explained that Vsevolod Merkulov's dismissal in May 1946 was due to his dishonesty during the war. 
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20 Aug 1946 WW2 Rohan Amerasekera became the assistant aerodrome officer at the Ratmalana Airport in Ceylon. 
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20 Aug 1946 WW2 Vojtech Tuka was execute by hanging. 
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22 Aug 1946 WW2 Döme Sztójay passed away. 
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22 Aug 1946 WW2 Submarine R-5 was sold to the firm John J. Duane of Quincy, Massachusetts, United States for scrap. 
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25 Aug 1946 WW2 The fleet tug HMS Buccaneer was sunk by accident during a gunnery practice 
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26 Aug 1946 WW2 Pensacola was decommissioned from service. 
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27 Aug 1946 WW2 The trial against Amon Göth at the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland began. 
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27 Aug 1946 WW2 Louis Mountbatten was made Viscount Mountbatten of Burma. 
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28 Aug 1946 WW2 Independence was decommissioned from service. 
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28 Aug 1946 WW2 USS Skipjack was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Aug 1946 WW2 Nevada was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Aug 1946 WW2 Pennsylvania was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Aug 1946 WW2 New York was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Aug 1946 WW2 Ralph Talbot was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Aug 1946 WW2 Mugford was decommissioned from service. 
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31 Aug 1946 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was transferred to the Home Ministry for deactivation. 
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02 Sep 1946 WW2 Light carrier Hosho began to be broken up for scraps by Hitachi Zosen, Sakurajima, Japan. 
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02 Sep 1946 WW2 Submarine Skipjack was raised at Bikini Atoll. 
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05 Sep 1946 WW2 The trial against Amon Göth at the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland ended. 
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06 Sep 1946 WW2 Arthur Coningham was awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix of Greece. 
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06 Sep 1946 WW2 William Dimoline was promoted to the rank of major general. 
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07 Sep 1946 WW2 Lieutenant General Pyotr Fedotov was made a deputy in the Soviet Ministry for State Security (MGB) under Viktor Abakumov. 
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08 Sep 1946 WW2 About a thousand people converged on Kensington High Street in London, England, United Kingdom intent on taking over empty properties for desperately needed accommodation. In a typically British response the Women's Voluntary Service provided hot drinks to the demonstrators while even the police supplied tea and coffee from Kensington Barracks. The Press were sympathetic too as were much of the public, some of whom actively assisted the squatters by passing food and drink through windows. The police picked up and distributed food parcels and blankets, money, food, chocolate and cigarettes were collected for the families. Student from London University marched throughout the streets in support. After Prime Minister Clement Attlee refused to meet with a delegation a frightened government threaten to employ force to evict the squatters, but the protest eventually ended when it was announced that squatters could lose their rights to a place on the Council Housing queue if they persisted in occupation. 
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09 Sep 1946 WW2 USS Boarfish departed California, United States for a tour in the western Pacific. 
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11 Sep 1946 WW2 De Grasse was launched at Lorient, France. 
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12 Sep 1946 WW2 USS Brill departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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13 Sep 1946 WW2 Amon Leopold Göth was executed by hanging in Poland. 
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20 Sep 1946 WW2 USS Hawkbill was decommissioned from US service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
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26 Sep 1946 WW2 Sa-ik Hong passed away. 
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26 Sep 1946 WW2 The British Element of the Control Commission for Germany established a collection center for German refugees in the municipality of Friedland about 12 kilometers south of Göttingen in central Germany. This facility would be taken over by the East Germans in 1947, and between 1952 and 1987 it was used as a transit camp for about 1,400,000 people from the Soviet Union, the majority of whom were German prisoners of war and ethnic Germans whose ancestors had settled in Eastern Europe prior to WW2. 
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27 Sep 1946 WW2 The first of the two-seat Hurricane trainer aircraft to be transferred from Britain to Iran departed Langley Airfield in Berkshire, England, United Kingdom. 
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28 Sep 1946 WW2 Danae was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Oct 1946 WW2 At the end of the major war crimes trial in Nürnberg, Germany, 12 were given death sentences, 4 were given prison sentences, and 3 were acquitted. 
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01 Oct 1946 WW2 USS Boarfish departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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04 Oct 1946 WW2 USS Charr departed San Francisco, California, United States for a simulated war patrol. 
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05 Oct 1946 WW2 Hungarian Count István Bethlen passed away in the Butyrka Prison Hospital in Moscow, Russia. 
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06 Oct 1946 WW2 Per Albin Hansson passed away. 
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12 Oct 1946 WW2 Joseph Stilwell passed away from stomach cancer at the Presidio of San Francisco military base in San Francisco, California, United States. 
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15 Oct 1946 WW2 Two hours before his scheduled execution, Hermann Göring committed suicide. 
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16 Oct 1946 WW2 12 German war criminals were executed. 
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16 Oct 1946 WW2 Joachim von Ribbentrop passed away. 
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16 Oct 1946 WW2 Arthur Seyß-Inquart passed away. 
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16 Oct 1946 WW2 Wilhelm Keitel passed away. 
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16 Oct 1946 WW2 Ernst Kaltenbrunner passed away. 
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16 Oct 1946 WW2 Alfred Jodl passed away. 
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16 Oct 1946 WW2 Hans Frank passed away. 
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16 Oct 1946 WW2 Fritz Sauckel passed away. 
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16 Oct 1946 WW2 Wilhelm Frick passed away. 
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16 Oct 1946 WW2 Alfred Rosenberg was executed by hanging at Nuremberg, Germany. 
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18 Oct 1946 WW2 He Yingqin was ordered by Chiang Kaishek to travel to the United States as a member of the Chinese delegation to the United Nations. 
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22 Oct 1946 WW2 Commander Glover Freguson was named the commanding officer of USS Saint Paul. 
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23 Oct 1946 WW2 The US Army military government in Korea issued the Name Restoration Order, which provided means for Koreans to change their surnames back to their Korean surnames if they or their families had adopted Japanese surnames during the Japanese occupation. 
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24 Oct 1946 WW2 Kurt Daluege passed away. 
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29 Oct 1946 WW2 Submarine Pollack was struck from the US Naval Register. 
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31 Oct 1946 WW2 Israeli terrorists bombed the British Embassy in Rome, Italy. 
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02 Nov 1946 WW2 Captain Burton Biggs was named the commanding officer of USS Saint Paul. 
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03 Nov 1946 WW2 Yoshio Nishina was awarded the Order of Culture by Emperor Showa. 
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04 Nov 1946 WW2 San Diego was decommissioned from service. 
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04 Nov 1946 WW2 Lieutenant Commander William J. Pendola was named the commanding officer of USS Ticonderoga. 
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05 Nov 1946 WW2 Max Merten was released from captivity by the Greek government. 
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09 Nov 1946 WW2 San Juan was decommissioned from service. 
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09 Nov 1946 WW2 USS Brill arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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11 Nov 1946 WW2 The United States removed all war time price controls. 
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12 Nov 1946 WW2 USS Chub began a scheduled overhaul. 
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13 Nov 1946 WW2 German prisoners of war Georg Jantschi and Karl Kosch were transferred from the special Prisoner of War Camp No. 27 in the suburbs of Moscow, Russia to the Lefortovo Prison in Moscow. 
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14 Nov 1946 WW2 British destroyer was sold to the Royal Netherlands Navy. 
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15 Nov 1946 WW2 USS Boarfish set sail for San Diego, California, United States. 
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16 Nov 1946 RELIGIOUS The Evangelical United Brethren Church was constituted at Johnstown, PA by a merger of the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical Church. The new denomination originated in the work of two German Reformed pastors, Philip W. Otterbein and Martin Boehm, who had ministered among Pennsylvania Germans two centuries earlier.
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23 Nov 1946 WW2 French warships bombarded the port of Haiphong, French Indo-China, forcing the communist Viet Minh to agree to a cease fire. 
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25 Nov 1946 WW2 The city government of Beiping, China renamed a road in honor of Zhao Dengyu. 
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30 Nov 1946 WW2 USS Columbia was decommission from service in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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01 Dec 1946 WW2 Miguel Valdes succeeded Manuel Camacho as President of Mexico. 
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02 Dec 1946 WW2 USS Wisconsin arrived at Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States. 
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05 Dec 1946 WW2 Argus was decommissioned from service. 
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07 Dec 1946 WW2 The Torrance Municipal Airport in Torrance, California, United States was renamed Zamperini Field in honor of Louis Zamperini. 
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09 Dec 1946 WW2 The Doctors' Trial began in Nuremberg before an United States military court against 20 doctors and 3 Nazi officials who were accused of involvement in human experimentation. Trial ended on 20 Aug 1947; 7 were acquitted, 7 were given death sentences, and 9 were given prison sentences. 
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09 Dec 1946 WW2 Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller was found guilty of war crimes by a court in Athens, Greece. 
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10 Dec 1946 WW2 USS Sennet began her participation in the Operation Highjump Antarctic expedition. 
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11 Dec 1946 WW2 Searaven was decommissioned from service. 
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11 Dec 1946 WW2 USS Parche was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, United States. 
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12 Dec 1946 WW2 Savo Island was decommissioned from service. 
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12 Dec 1946 WW2 USS Marcus Island was decommissioned from service at Boston, Massachusetts, United States and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. 
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12 Dec 1946 WW2 Ju 290 aicraft "Alles Kaput" was scrapped in the United States. 
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13 Dec 1946 WW2 A star shell accidentally struck USS Missouri during an exercise in the North Atlantic, causing no damage nor injuries. 
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20 Dec 1946 WW2 Radical ethnic Koreans attacked Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida at his official residence in Tokyo, Japan; Yoshida escaped harm. 
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23 Dec 1946 WW2 Prince Morihiro's daughter Princess Fumiko was born. 
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24 Dec 1946 WW2 The French Fourth Republic was found. 
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24 Dec 1946 WW2 Polish Brigadier General Leopold Okulick, the former commander-in-chief of the Polish Home Army, died in Butyrka Prison Hospital in Moscow, Russia. 
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27 Dec 1946 WW2 Commander Warren Ronald Thompson was named the commanding officer of USS Ticonderoga. 
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31 Dec 1946 WW2 US President Harry Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in WW2. 
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31 Dec 1946 WW2 Franz von Epp passed away. 
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