The British Army launched Operation Agatha, the arrest of suspected Jewish terrorist in Palestine. The Haganah escalated terrorist attacks in response.
It was a Saturday.
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Friday, June 28, 1946. First Hāfu (ハーフ).
The first recorded birth in Japan of a baby born of a Japanese mother and a father who was an American soldier occupying Japan, was announced on Japanese radio, barely more than nine months after the U.S. commenced occupation of Honshu.
The number of such children born during the American occupation from 1945 to 1952 is unknown, but best estimates put it at less than 5,000. Small additional numbers had British and Australian fathers, with their fate being particularly harsh as British occupation authorities strictly prohibited liaisons with Japanese females and marriage was not an option. Many of their children were given up for adoption as orphans. In contrast,45,000 Japanese women became American war brides.
The entire matter was controversial in Japan, as generally it broke a strict cultural taboo regarding interacting with foreigners in this fashion. Cross cultural marriages were enormously looked down upon in Japan at the time and still somewhat are, albeit to a lesser degree. The occupation period is the only instance in which Japanese women breached the taboo on a large scale.
In this case, the extremely rapid nature of the conception raises real questions about the nature of consent in the matter.
Comedian Gilda Radner was born in Detroit.
Actress Antoinette Perry form whom the Tony Awards are named died at age 58 of a heart attack. There were signs that it was coming, but as a Christian Scientist, she refused to see a doctor.
She had been born in Denver, Colorado.
The Family Circle magazine featured a photograph of a cat in a wedding dress on the cover.
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Wednesday, June 26, 1946. The Nationalist Chinese Strike.
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Thursday, June 27, 1946. Canadian citizenship established.
Canadian citizenship was made separate from British citizenship by act of the Canadian House of Commons, with the effective date being January 1, 1947.
Canada was the first Commonwealth country to separate its citizenship from that of the United Kingdom.
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Wednesday, June 26, 1946. The Nationalist Chinese Strike.
Friday, June 26, 2026
Wednesday, June 26, 1946. The Nationalist Chinese Strike.
Chiang Kai-shek launched a nationwide offensive against the Red Chinese designed to take control of the entire country. A sign that things might not go well occurred when Nationalist pilot Liu Shanben defected to the Communists with a B-24 Liberator.
The Nationalist Army had the edge on paper. It was larger and much better equipped. It also had more combat experience, the Red Chinese having sat out much of the Second World War. The Nationalist also had the benefit of various degrees of U.S. training, and oddly enough, German training before that.
World War Two vintage U.S. poster depicting a Nationalist soldier and his family. The soldier is accurately depicted in a Nationalist uniform, which was based on German uniforms, including the iconic German feldmutze. He's carrying a 98 rifle, although the straight bolt handle would indicate that it is not a K98k, many of which were supplied to the Nationalist by Nazi Germany. The rifle instead is a Mauser Standardmodell, a commercial predecessor to the K98k, or perhaps a Chinese made copy. Of course, this is just an illustration but it's likely based on photographs. By this point in 1946 many Chinese troops had American equipment of various types, but many infantrymen remained equipped just like this. Indeed, Chinese soldiers were more likely to carry Mauser bolt actions than any other rifle.
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Tuesday, June 25, 1946. The World Bank commences operations.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, Aircraft, China, China (Xuzhou), Chinese Civil War, Economics, Food, Nationalist Chinese Army, Office of Price Administration, World Bank
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Tuesday, June 25, 1946. The World Bank commences operations.
The World Bank commenced operations.
Nationalist Chinese troops killed ten demonstrating middle school students at Xuzhou when their commander, Feng Yu-xiang Fang Jingxing ordered them to be fired on by machine guns.
The US was struggling through a post war meat shortage. Denver newspapers were reporting that the Office of Price Administration was accordingly being kept in operation and that Denver butcher shops were nearly bare.
The YB-35 flew for the first time.
Long considered a real oddball, the aircraft anticipated the B-2.
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Saturday, June 22, 1946. History rhyming
Monday, June 22, 2026
Saturday, June 22, 1946. History rhyming
U.S. Senator Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi, a former Governor of that state, running for re-election in the Democratic primary, said in a radio broadcast that he was calling on every "red-blooded Anglo-Saxon man in Mississippi to resort to any means to keep hundreds of Negroes from the polls in the July 2 primary.And if you don't know what the means, you are just not up on your persuasive measures.
He won the primary and the generals, but the Senate would refuse to swear him in due to his racist comments.
Today he'd be a Republican, they'd excuse his comments, and he'd be sworn in.
Bilbo retired and wrote a book entitled; Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization. He died in 1947.
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Thursday, June 20, 1946. Allied withdrawal.
Labels: 1940, 1946, 1950s, 1955, 1957, 1960s, 1962, Allied Powers, Allies, Bulgaria, China, Italy, Manchukuo, Monarchy
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Sunday, June 16, 1946. Night of the Bridges.
The Hagenah took out eleven highway and railway bridges, while causing no causalities, disrupting mandatory Palestine's communications with neighboring states.
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Friday, June 14, 1946. No nukes.
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Friday, June 14, 1946. No nukes.
The United States proposed to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission a proposal for United Nations to control all nuclear weapons.
The proposal was remarkable for a number of reason, not the least of which was that it would have subjected the entire collection of the world's nations to a sort of limited central government. It also shows how liberal politics in the U.S. were at the time.
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Wednesday, June 12, 1946. British reject Jewish immigration to Palestine.
Friday, June 12, 2026
Wednesday, June 12, 1946. British reject Jewish immigration to Palestine.
The British government rejected the recommendation of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry to allow up to 100,000 European Jews to immigrate to Palestine. The British Labour Party attributed the findings to an American desire to avoid immigration to the United States.
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Tuesday, June 11, 1946. The Administrative Procedures Act passed into law.
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Tuesday, June 11, 1946. The Administrative Procedures Act passed into law.
Not a particularly interesting thing to note, but it is a major legal event.
More interestingly, the Hercules H-4, nicknamed the Spruce Goose due to its plywood construction, was moved from Hughes Airport in what is now Playa Vista to Long Beach, in sections, so that it could be reassembled and tested.
The huge flying boat was already obsolete which was known to all, but Howard Hughes having started it was determined to finish it.
There was crabbiness at the Supreme Court.
Surplus items I'd really love to find today were being sold at Lowry.
The Spruce Goose did make the papers but not until page 20.
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Saturday, June 8, 1946. British victory parade.
Monday, June 8, 2026
Saturday, June 8, 1946. British victory parade.
The United Kingdom celebrated victory in World War Two with a massive parade in London.
This date is not an accident. The parade occurred on this day in 1946.
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Friday, June 7, 1946. BBC Television resumes broadcasting.
Sunday, June 7, 2026
Friday, June 7, 1946. BBC Television resumes broadcasting.
BBC Television, which had been off the air since September 1, 1939, resumed broadcasting. The resumption was for only an hour on June 7, but it signaled its first return. The programming featured speakers welcoming the audience back, a performance by ballerina Margo Fonteyn, a talk segment, and a rebroadcast of Disney's Mickey's Gala, the latter being the last thing broadcast in 1939.
There were over 18,000 television sets in the US when service was suspended.
The players of the Pittsburgh Pirates, which had threatened to walk out if they were not allowed to join the American Baseball Guild, didn't.
First flight of the Short Sturgeon.
The design was to have been a carrier borne aircraft, but like a lot of revolutionary piston engined aircraft of its era, it wasn't around very long. Only 28 were built.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Monday, June 3, 1946. Irene Morgan and the bus.
Signaling the beginning of a new ear in the Court, the U.S. Supreme Court found segregation of interstate bus passengers to be illegal.
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Sunday, June 2, 1946. Latinate elections.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, Christian Democrats, Communism, France, Italy, Personalities, Socialism, The written word
Thursday, June 3, 1926. Pole Mountain designated as a Wyoming National Guard training range.
Pole Mountain, which had been in use with a temporary designation since 1924, was designated as a approved Wyoming National Guard training range. It would retain that status up until it was begun to be phased out in 1938 in favor of the New Camp Guernsey, but even at that, training would remain at Pole Mountain right up to until mobilization for the Second World War.
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Tuesday, June 1, 1926. Marilyn Monroe and Andy Griffith.
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Sunday, June 2, 1946. Latinate elections.
Shield of the Italian Christian Democracy Party, Democrazia Cristiana.
Italians abolished the Italian monarchy and elected seats to the Constituent Assembly in a nationwide vote, the same being the first in which women were allowed to vote.
The Christian Democracy party won 207 out of 556 seats and formed a coalition government with the Socialists (115) and Communist (104) parties. The CD would lead successive Italian governments until 1981. The party was dissolved in 1994 with the successor party being the Italian People's Party ( Partito Popolare Italiano)
In French parliamentary elections, the French Communist Party lost its plurality (from 159 to 153), the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) gained 16 seats (from 150 to 166) and the Socialist Party dropped from 146 to 128. No one party had a majority.
Carrie Ingalls of her sister Laura's Little House on the Prairie fame died.
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Saturday, June 1, 1946. Cochin China.
Monday, June 1, 2026
Saturday, June 1, 1946. Cochin China.
French High Commissioner Georges Thierry d'Argenlieud recognized a French controlled "Autonomous Republic of Cochin-China" in French Indochina in violation of the Ho-Sainteny agreement. The proto state, which had been a pre World War Two administrative unit, would later become South Vietnam and would lead directly to the French Indochinese War.
Ho Chi Minh was in France negotiating under presumptions raised by the Ho-Sainteny agreement at the time.
Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu is an unusual figure as he was a French diplomat, Admiral, and a Catholic Priest. From a family of naval officers, he started off in life in that path before becoming a Priest in the 1920s. During World War Two he was recalled to naval service and would serve the Free French. He was an ardent Gaullist and it was that, rather than an opposition to Communism, that pushed him towards the creation of Cochin China.
Seriously devout, upon retiring from naval service in 1947, he entered a monastery, where he died in 1964 at age 75.
The Senate granted Truman emergency powers to end strikes. The House had done so the prior week.
Second World War Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu was executed.
Romania tends not to get that much attention in the West and therefore Antonescu, who remains a large and controversial figure in Romania, does not. His reign was abhorrent and attendant with all the crimes that the Nazis afflicted during World War Two. He none the less retains a small following.
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Thursday, May 30, 1946. First post war Indianapolis 500.
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Thursday, May 30, 1946. First post war Indianapolis 500.
The Indianapolis 500 was run for the first time since 1941. George Robson, took the race.
Robson was killed in a racing accident that September.
Over 90 passengers were killed in a railway accident at Hengyang, China.
The day prior the Senate had defeated a really badly thought out plan by Truman to draft striking rail workers.
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Saturday, May 25, 1946. Jordanian independence, Railroad strike ends.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, Harry S. Truman, Jordan, Labor unrest, Monarchy, Railroads, Strike Wave of 1945-1946, Unions
Monday, May 25, 2026
Saturday, May 25, 1946. Jordanian independence, Railroad strike ends.
Jordan achieved full independence.
Railroads and Railway workers signed an agreement at the White House averting a Federal seizure of the railroads. Truman's order to take control was only three minutes away from implementation.
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Friday, May 24, 1946. Truman and the railroad strike.
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