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July 1, 1946: Bikini Atoll and 73 ships nuked

July 22, 1946: Zionists bomb the King David Hotel in Jerusalem

July 25, 1946: First underwater nuclear explosion

July 6, 1946: Future U.S. President George W. Bush born to future U.S. President George H.W. Bush, future First Lady Barbara Bush

The following events occurred in July 1946:

July 1, 1946 (Monday)

• Operation Crossroads: At 8:59 am and 45 seconds local time, at the Bikini Atoll, an atomic bomb was detonated for the fourth time in human history. A fleet of 73 unmanned ships had been assembled in the South Pacific Ocean to observe the effects of the blast, and for the first time, the press and representatives of the rest of the world's nations had been invited. The explosion took place at 2159:45 UTC on June 30 (5:59 pm EST). The transport USS Gilliam, closest to the blast, and USS Carlisle sank immediately, while the destroyer USS Lamson was capsized.^[1] The heavily armored Japanese ship Sakawa sank the next day.^[2] Animals on the USS Burleson died of radiation poisoning over the weeks after initially showing normal bloodcounts.^[3]

July 2, 1946 (Tuesday)

• The Luce-Celler Act of 1946 was signed into law, giving all Philippines citizens living in the United States the right to become naturalized U.S. citizens.^[4]
• In the American Zone of Germany, Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, the Deputy Military Governor, pardoned all Nazis under 27 years old, except for those accused of war crimes, and restored one million men to German citizenship. One commentator noted, "Clay acted on the assumption that many of these Germans became Nazis before they were old enough to realize what they were doing." ^[5]
• The town of Kerman, California was incorporated.
• Born: Richard Axel, American neuroscientist, 2004 Nobel Prize laureate, in New York City
• Died: Howard Hyde Russell, 89, founder, Anti-Saloon League, and Mary Alden, 63, American stage & screen actress

July 3, 1946 (Wednesday)

• U.S. President Truman signed the National Mental Health Act signed into law, establishing National Institute of Mental Health and funding research into mental illness.^[6]
• For the first time, Czechoslovakia had a Communist leader, as party First Secretary Klement Gottwald, was named as the new Prime Minister by President Edvard Beneš.^[7]
• Born: Johnny Lee, American singer and songwriter, as John Lee Ham in Texas City, Texas

July 4, 1946 (Thursday)

President Roxas

• The Republic of the Philippines was born, and Manuel Roxas was inaugurated as its first President. Forty-eight years after the United States had first claimed the islands as an American territory, U.S. President Harry S. Truman issued a formal proclamation that "On behalf of the United States of America, I do hereby recognize the independence of the Philippines as a separate and self-governing nation and acknowledge the authority and control over the same of the government instituted by the people thereof, under the constitution now in force." Present at the raising of the Philippine flag were General Douglas MacArthur and U.S. Senator Millard Tydings, and Emilio Aguinaldo, who had begun the fight for independence in 1898.^[8]
• Kielce pogrom: After his 8-year-old son lied about being kidnapped and held hostage by a group of Jews, Walenty Blaszczyk guided police to a Jewish neighborhood in Kielce, Poland. Over the next several hours, more than forty of the Jews were murdered by a mob, without interference from the police.^[9] At 59, the boy, a retired pensioner who was still living in Kielce, told a Polish government inquest that his father had told him to lie to the police.^[10]
• Born: Michael Milken, American "junk bond" financier, in Encino, California; and Ron Kovic, author of Born on the Fourth of July, in Ladysmith, Wisconsin

July 5, 1946 (Friday)

• At the Piscine Molitor in Paris, model Micheline Bernardini became the first woman to wear a two-piece swimsuit created by designer Louis Réard. In an homage to the site of the atomic bomb test earlier in the week, Reard named the garment the bikini.;^[11]

100 quintillion pengos

• As inflation in Hungary spiraled out of control, the national bank in Budapest put into circulation an unprecedented note of currency, a bill for one hundred quintillion (100,000,000,000,000,000) pengős.^[12]
• Leo Durocher, the manager of baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers, first uttered what would become a famous phrase, after the New York Giants beat them 7-6 to rise from last place to 7th in the National League. Frank Graham, a reporter for the Journal-American, wrote in his Sunday column that Durocher had pointed to the Giants' dugout and said, "The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place." Durocher recalled the remark nearly 30 years later as "Take a look at them. All nice guys. They'll finish last." The remark continued to be paraphrased, and in April 1948, Cosmopolitan magazine published an article about Durocher with the title "Nice Guys Finish Last".^[13]

July 6, 1946 (Saturday)

George W. Bush

Sylvester Stallone

#Fred Dryer

• George Walker Bush, who would later become the 43rd President of the United States, was born in New Haven, Connecticut at 7:26 in the morning, the son of Yale University student George Bush and Barbara Bush.^[14] Future film legend (Rocky and Rambo) Sylvester Enzio Stallone, was born in New York City to Frank Stallone Sr. and Jackie Stallone, and injured during the delivery, leaving him with a drooping lower lip and what would become a slight, but distinctive, speech impediment.^[15] John Frederick Dryer, who would attain fame as a pro football player and later as a television actor (Hunter), was born in Hawthorne, California to Charles and Genevieve Dryer.^[16] All three were born on the same day.

July 7, 1946 (Sunday)

• Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850–1917) became the first American citizen to be elevated to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church, canonized under the authority of Pope Pius XII.^[17] Mother Cabrini, a native of Italy, came to the United States in 1889 and began a career of founding schools and hospitals. She became a U.S. citizen on October 9, 1909, and had been beatified on November 13, 1938.^[18]
• Miguel Alemán Valdés was elected President of Mexico, defeating oppostition candidate Ezequiel Padilla.^[19]
• In Philadelphia, a joint announcement was released by the Presbyterian Church and the Episcopal Church for a merger that, ultimately, did not take place.^[20]
• U.S. Navy Ensign Jimmy Carter, who would become the 39th President of the United States, married Rosalynn Smith in Plains, Georgia.^[21]

July 8, 1946 (Monday)

• The Soviet military government in Austria began deporting 54,000 persons who had moved there from Germany following the 1938 Anschluss, after setting a deadline of 6:00 am the day before.^[22]
• Died: Orrick Johns, 59, American writer, by suicide;

July 9, 1946 (Tuesday)

• In the 1946 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Boston, Ted Williams helped the American League win 12-0 over the Nationals, getting a hit in all four times at-bat, getting two home runs and five RBIs.^[23]
• Born: Bon Scott, Australian rock musician, lead singer for AC/DC, as Ronald B. Scott in Kirriemuir, Scotland (died of alcohol poisoning, 1980); and Mitch Mitchell, English drummer for and last surviving member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, in Ealing, Middlesex (d. 2008)

July 10, 1946 (Wednesday)

• In Hungary, the hyperinflation peaked at a rate of 348.46% per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours^[24]
• Died: Sidney Hillman, 59, American labor leader (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America)

July 11, 1946 (Thursday)

• Occupation of Germany: At the meeting in Paris of the foreign ministers of the four Allied powers, U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes proposed an economic merger of the occupation zones. The United Kingdom agreed on July 29, and the American and British zones became the "United Economic Area", informally referred to as "Bizonia", on January 1, 1947. The French zone joined in 1949, and the three areas would become West Germany later in the year.^[25]

July 12, 1946 (Friday)

• Hungary initiated a monetary reform that retired its worthless currency, the pengő, and replaced it with the forint, effective August 1.^[26]
• The Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 became law in the United Kingdom.^[27]
• Died: Ray Stannard Baker, 76, American journalist (McClure's) who also wrote children's books under the name "David Grayson"

July 13, 1946 (Saturday)

• Seven United States Marines were taken prisoner in China's Hebei Province by Communist forces, at the village of Hsinanchuang, near Qinhuangdao.^[28] A truce team secured the men's release after eleven days.^[29]
• Born: Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian as Richard Anthony Marin in Los Angeles
• Died: Alfred Stieglitz, 82, American photographer; and Riley Puckett, 52, country music singer and comedian

July 14, 1946 (Sunday)

• The "Boudreau shift" was first employed by Lou Boudreau, manager and shortstop for the Cleveland Indians, in the second game of doubleheader against the Boston Red Sox. After Boston's Ted Williams hit three home runs to beat Cleveland 11-10, Boudreau moved all four infielders and two outfielders to the right side of the field when the left-handed Williams came to bat again. The Indians still lost, 6-4.^[30]
• Born: John Wood, Australian TV actor (Blue Heelers)

July 15, 1946 (Monday)

• A loan of 3.75 billion dollars to the United Kingdom, at 1.62 percent interest, was approved 46-34 by the United States Senate, after the House had voted 219-155 in its favor. By July 15, 1947, "within six months of convertibility of sterling requirements coming into force", noted one historian later, "British gold and dollar reserves were exhausted. With bankruptcy staring it in the face, the Attlee government made plans for a severe austerity program at home and a strategic retrenchment abroad." ^[31]
• President Truman presented the Presidential distinguished unit citation banner to the members of the 442nd Regiment of the U.S. Army, in a White House ceremony. Truman praised the regiment, made up of Japanese-American citizens, "for victory over both the enemy and over prejudice".^[32]
• Born: Linda Ronstadt, American singer and songwriter, in Tucson, Arizona; and Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei since 1967, at Bandar Seri Begawan
• Died: Wen Yiduo, 46, Chinese poet and activist, was assassinated hours after he delivered the eulogy at a funeral for Li Gongpu.^[33]

July 16, 1946 (Tuesday)

• The Bureau of Land Management was created within the U.S. Department of the Interior, by a merger of two other agencies, the Grazing Service and the General Land Office.^[34]
• The Social Security Administration was established to replace the three member established as successor to the three member Social Security Board that had been created in 1935.^[35]
• Born: Ron Yary, American NFL tackle and Hall of Famer, in Chicago; Barbara Lee, American Congresswoman (D-Cal.) since 1998, in El Paso; and Dave Goelz, American puppeteer, in Burbank, California

July 17, 1946 (Wednesday)

• After formerly being limited to general elections only, African Americans voted in a primary election in Georgia for the first time, with more than 100,000 turning out to decide on the Democratic Party nominee for Governor.^[36] Although the black vote was a factor in James V. Carmichael getting more votes than former Governor Eugene Talmadge (314,421 to 305,777), Talmadge won the nomination anyway, based on the state's "county unit" system, similar to an electoral vote.^[37] Talmadge won the general election in November, but died a month later before he could be inaugurated. The unit vote system was later abolished.^[38]
• A plane crash in Ecuador killed all 26 passengers and 6 crew members on board. The Andesa Airlines flight from Guayaquil, piloted by two Americans, struck a hillside while attempting a landing at Cuenca.^[39]
• Born: Gerald Gallego, American serial killer, in Sacramento
• Died: Gen. Draja Mihailovic, 50, and 8 other Chetniks were executed by a firing squad in Belgrade, after being convicted of collaborating with German invaders during World War II.

July 18, 1946 (Thursday)

• The Dr. Hari Singh Gour University was founded in the city of Sagar, now in the Madhya Pradesh state in India, and is now one of the central universities operated by the national government.^[40]
• In fiction, from J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, July 18, 1946, was the date that Holden Caulfield's younger brother, Allie, died of leukemia.

July 19, 1946 (Friday)

• Introduced for the first time and endorsed by President Truman, the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution, failed to pass the U.S. Senate. Although the vote was 38-35 in favor of the proposal, a 2/3 majority was required for passage.^[41]
• Born: Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player, #1 in the world 1973-74, winner of U.S. Open, Wimbledon and French Open 1972-73; in Bucharest

July 20, 1946 (Saturday)

• "Report of the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack" was released. Chaired by U.S. Senator Alben W. Barkley, with U.S. Representative Jere Cooper as vice-chairman, the ten member committee had voted 8-2 to approve the finding that "The committee has found no evidence to support the charges, made before and during the hearings, that the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, or the Secretary of Navy tricked, provoked, incited, cajoled, or coerced Japan into attacking this Nation in order that a declaration of war might be more easily obtained from the Congress",^[42] and assigned blame to the highest-ranking officer in Hawaii at the time, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short. U.S. Senators Homer Ferguson and Owen Brewster dissented, saying that President Roosevelt and his military advisors "were just as responsible for the nation's worst military disaster".^[43]
• Born: Leonard Lake, American serial killer (d. 1985)

July 21, 1946 (Sunday)

• Gualberto Villarroel, the President of Bolivia, was murdered by an angry mob that stormed the Palacio Quemado, his official residence in La Paz. Villaroel, who had escaped an assassination attempt only two years later, was hanged from a lamppost at the Plaza Murillo after the killing.^[44]
• For the first time in history of the United Kingdom the rationing of bread was put into effect. By order of the Ministry of Food, with a 305-182 approval by the House of Commons,^[45]
• Lieutenant Commander James J. Davidson became the first American to land a jet airplane on to an aircraft carrier, guiding an FH-1 Phantom onto the deck of the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt after taking off from the ship earlier.^[46]
• Born: Kenneth Starr, American attorney who prosecuted Bill Clinton in 1998; in Vernon, Texas

July 22, 1946 (Monday)

• King David Hotel bombing: At 12:37 pm^[47] in Jerusalem, the Zionist terrorist group Irgun detonated 350 kilograms of gelignite explosives at the King David Hotel, headquarters of the British Mandate for Palestine, collapsing a section of the building and killing ninety-one people. The final death toll was 28 British nationals, 41 Palestinian Arabs, 17 Jewish residents, and five foreign guests.^[48] Members of the group had smuggled the bomb material into the hotel in seven milk cans, and claimed later that they had telephoned a warning which had been ignored by the Chief Secretary, Sir John Shaw.^[49]
• Born: Danny Glover, American film actor (Lethal Weapon films), in San Francisco; and Mireille Mathieu, French singer, in Avignon

July 23, 1946 (Tuesday)

• The last German prisoners of war in the United States were released, as 1,385 POWs were placed on the ship General Yates, following detention at Camp Shanks in New York. In all, there had been 375,000 German prisoners kept in the U.S. at the end of World War II.^[50]
• The Zaibatsu, the Japanese corporations that had financed that nation's war effort, were abolished by imperial order. Many of the corporations began to be reconstituted in 1953.^[51]

July 24, 1946 (Wednesday)

• Andrei Gromyko told a closed session of the United Nations Security Council that the Soviet Union would not accept the Baruch Plan to ban all further production of nuclear weapons.^[52]

July 25, 1946 (Thursday)

• Operation Crossroads: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga was sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The "Baker Test" blast took place at 8:35 am local time, and vaporised the 200-foot-long (61 m) weapons ship USS LSM-60, located directly above the bomb, and immediately sank the USS Arkansas.^[53] In all, three submarines and seven ships were destroyed in the test.^[54]

Martin and Lewis

• At the 500 Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis staged their first show as a comedy duo. Their last performance as a team would happen exactly ten years later, on July 25, 1956.^[55]
• Moore's Ford Lynching: Two African American couples, George and Mae Dorsey, and Roger and Dorothy Malcolm, were murdered by a mob of white men, after their car was stopped near Monroe, Georgia.^[56] Although the crime aroused outrage across the United States, nobody was ever prosecuted for the murders.^[57]

July 26, 1946 (Friday)

• The U.S. Office of Price Administration, authorized to act after a 25-day lapse in its activities, issued orders restoring price controls, but at a higher effectively raising prices on thousands of items sold in the United States. Under the "OPA Revival Act" that had been signed by President Truman the day before, food prices would not be controlled again until August 20.^[58]

July 27, 1946 (Saturday)

• Meeting in Bombay, the Executive Council of the Muslim League voted unanimously to reject the Cabinet Mission plan that had been proposed by the United Kingdom to grant independence to British India. A year later, the Muslim provinces became Pakistan (with East Pakistan later becoming Bangladesh), and the Hindu provinces became the Republic of India.^[59]
• Died: Gertrude Stein, 72, American writer

July 28, 1946 (Sunday)

• Howard C. Petersen, the Assistant Secretary of War, announced that, in addition to deaths in combat, 131,028 American and Filipino citizens, mostly civilians, had died "as a result of war crimes" from December 7, 1941 until the end of World War II. The group included 91,184 Filipino civilians and 595 American civilians who had been killed as a result of "murder, cruelty and torture, starvation and neglect, or.. other assaults and mistreatment".^[60]
• Born: Linda Kelsey, American actress (Lou Grant), in Minneapolis
• Died: Alphonsa Muttathupadathu, 35, Indian nun

July 29, 1946 (Monday)

• At the Anping district of China's Hebei Province, near the village of Hohsiwu, a 300-man force of the Communist People's Liberation Army ambushed a supply convoy of 41 United States Marines. In the battle that followed, four Americans^[61] and at least fifteen Chinese members of the died.^[62]
• Air India began operations under that name after the reorganization of Tata Airlines.^[63]
• Born: Ximena Armas, Chilean painter, in Santiago

July 30, 1946 (Tuesday)

• The passenger ship MV Vipya capsized in a storm while traveling on Lake Nyasa near Chilumba in Malawi, drowning 145 of the 194 passengers and crewmen on board. The ship, built by the same company that had constructed RMS Titanic, was only on its fourth trip. Reportedly, the ship's captain refused to return to shore when the vessel began taking on water.^[64]
• Born: Neil Bonnett, American NASCAR driver, in Hueytown, Alabama (killed in accident, 1994), and Barbara Kopple, American film director, in New York City

July 31, 1946 (Wednesday)

• Venona project: American cryptanalyst Meredith Gardner was able to make the first breakthrough in a team project to crack the secret codes used by the Soviet Union in its espionage activities in the United States. After his successful decryption of one encoded phrase within intercepted telegrams, the team was able to deconstruct more of the coded transmissions.^[65]
• The Morrison-Grady Plan, proposed by Herbert Morrison of Britain and Henry F. Grady of the U.S., providing for the division of Palestine into four, with 17% of the land set aside for up to 100,000 Jewish immigrants, 40% for Palestinian Arabs, and 43% for a neutral zone under British control. The plan was endorsed by President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee, but Jewish and Arab groups both rejected the proposal.^[66]

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1. "SPECTACULAR ATOM BOMB BLAST SINKS TWO SHIPS, DAMAGES 20", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 1, 1946, p1
2. "Jap Cruiser Sinks After Atomic Blast", Post-Gazette, July 2, 1946, p1
3. "Atom Test Animals Melt Away", Post-Gazette, July 15, 1946, p3
4. "Roots in the Sand", pbs.org; Barbara Mercedes Posadas, The Filipino Americans (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999) p26
5. "Younger Nazis Given Pardons In U.S. Zone", Post-Gazette, July 3, 1946, p4
6. Murray Levine, The History and Politics of Community Mental Health (Oxford University Press US, 1981) p43
7. "Communist Named Czech Premier" Miami Daily News, July 4, 1946, p1
8. "Republic of Philippines Born Amid Rubble of War- Roxas Sworn In As First President" St. Petersburg Times, July 4, 1946, p1
9. "The Kielce Pogrom" by Bozena Szaynok, Jewish Virtual Library; "40 Die in Attacks on Polish Jews; False Story by Boy, 8, Starts Riots", Pittsburgh Press, July 5, 1946, p1
10. "Remembering the Pogrom of Kielce", Chicago Tribune, May 24, 1996, p1
11. "The bikini turns 60 -- and still looking good", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, June 11, 2006 Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Girl Culture (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008) p182
12. "More Valueless Money", Pittsburgh Press, July 5, 1956, p17
13. "On Language", by William Safire, New York Times, October 27, 2002
14. Bill Minutaglio, First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty (Random House, Inc., 1999)
15. John Sarkett, Extraordinary Comebacks: 201 Inspiring Stories of Courage, Triumph and Success p143 (Sourcebooks, Inc., 2007)
16. Biography for Fred Dryer at the Internet Movie Database
17. "U.S. Nun Elevated To Sainthood By Pope", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 8, 1946, p1
18. Phyllis G. Jestice, Holy People of the World: A Cross-cultural Encyclopedia, Volume 3 (ABC-CLIO, 2004), p153
19. "Riots Mark End of Vote In Mexico", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 8, 1946, p1
20. "Episcopalians, Presbyterians Map Merger", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 8, 1946, p1
21. Robert P. Watson, ed., Laura Bush: The Report to the First Lady 2005 (Nova Publishers, 2005) p146
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27. Robert A. Brady Crisis in Britain: Plans and Achievements of the Labour Government (University of California Press, 1950) p110
28. "Seven Marines Kidnapped", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 16, 1946, p3
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31. tewart Patrick, Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009) p161
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33. Mark Willhardt, ed., Who's Who in Twentieth-Century World Poetry (Routledge, 2002) p341
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37. "Talmadge Wins But Carmichael Gets Most Votes", St. Petersburg Times, July 20, 1946, p1; "GEORGIA: Comfortable Again", TIME Magazine, July 29, 1946
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39. "Ecuador Plane Crash Kills 32", Los Angeles Times, July 18, 1946, p 5
40. University website
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65. Peter Grose, Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001) p88
66. Michael B. Oren, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present (W. W. Norton & Company, 2007) p487; H.H. Ben-Sasson A History of the Jewish People (Harvard University Press, 1976)