Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov called for universal disarmament and the banning of all nuclear weapons at the United Nations. He also hinted that the United States' monopoly on the atomic bomb might have ended, although it had not as of that time.
On the same day, Major General Lauris Norstad told President Truman that in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe the only effective defense would be to use atomic bombs on seventeen Soviet cities. The US only had the means of building nine such weapons at the time.
The great Belgian Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt arrived in the United States for the first time. Duke Ellington paid to have him come to the country.
Reinhardt in 1946. At the time, he was 36 years old.
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