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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Monday, June 8, 2026
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.
Sunday, May 24, 2026
Friday, May 24, 1946. Truman and the railroad strike.
President Truman made a radio address promising that if railway workers had not returned to work by 4:00 p.m. May 25, he was going to seize control of the railroads.
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Thursday, May 23, 1946. Chick-fil-A.
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Thursday, May 23, 1946. Chick-fil-A.
Railroad workers went on strike across the US at 4:00 P.M.
The Dwarf Grill opened by S. Truett Cathy in the Atlanta suburb of Hapeville, Georgia near the Ford Motor Company Atlanta Assembly Plant. It would later evolve into:
It's signature product was not part of the original menu and required a technological development which allows for chicken for sandwiches to be cooked as rapidly as hamburgers can be.
Chick-fil-a is closed on Sundays, which is one of the admirable things about it, however.
A tornado outbreak occurred across the Central and Midwestern United States which would continue into the following day.
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Monday, May 20, 1946. Air disaster in Manhattan, War in Iran, Nationalization of Coal in the UK.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, Aircraft, Azerbaijan, baseball, Coal, Disaster, Iran, Iran Crisis of 1946, It was because of World War Two, Kurds, Music, New York, Personalities, Socialism, United Kingdom, USSR
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Monday, May 20, 1946. Air disaster in Manhattan, War in Iran, Nationalization of Coal in the UK.
The House of Commons voted to nationalize the British coal industry. The House of Lords would follow and Royal Assent would be received on July l2.
C-45. By LanceBarber at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Liftarn using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12001474
A C-45 crashed into the 58th floor of the Bank of Manhattan building killing all five passengers but nobody else, given that it occurred at 8:00 p.m.
Things were not going well in Iran.
We've dealt with this a bit already, but this event was caused by Soviet support for Azerbaijani and Kurdish rebels.
Cher in high school.
Cherilyn Sarkisian, better known by her stage name Cher, was born in El Centro, California. Bobby Murcer, the baseball announcer and player, was born in Oklahoma City.
Murcer passed away in 2008, but Cher is still with us.
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Sunday, May 19, 1946. Food protests in Japan.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, Civil Unrest, Food, Japan, Labor unrest, Occupation of Japan, Railroads, Strike Wave of 1945-1946
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Sunday, May 19, 1946. Food protests in Japan.
Protests against the Japanese government occurred in the form of the People's Rally for Obtaining Food.
The news did appear in the Rocky Mountain News, but the aversion of a rail strike is what was on the front page.
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Friday, May 3, 1946. War Crime Trials in Tokyo and the Battle of Alcatraz
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Women Wearing Hair Scarves in the 1940s & 1950s
When I was young I recall my mother commonly doing this, which would have been in the 60s and 70s.
Women Wearing Hair Scarves in the 1940s & 1950s
Friday, May 15, 2026
China is Closing In on Taiwan.
With China having just been visited by our extraordinarily weak, and increasingly demented chief executive, this really bears watching.
Trump's illegal war on Iran has depleted US weapons reserves massively and wasted them on hard ground targets, something military analysts know is ineffective. We have less of an ability to counter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan now than at any point since. . . well. . . probably 1947.
The likelihood of it happening his high.
The likelihood of Trump doing utterly nothing if it does happen is also high.
In 1949, when mainland China fell to the Communists, Republicans howled over "who lost China?" In 2026 or 2027 when Taiwan falls, they'll probably just kneel to their beloved, Donald Trump.
The question will be, why?
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Friday, May 3, 1946. War Crime Trials in Tokyo and the Battle of Alcatraz
A prison riot was ongoing at Alcatraz.
Our Our Way took a look at the changing workplace.
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Monday, April 29, 1946. Indictment of Japanese leaders.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Japan, Personalities, War Crimes, World War Two
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Monday, April 29, 1946. Indictment of Japanese leaders.
Former Japanese Prime Ministers Hideki Tojo, Hiranuma Kiichirō, Kōki Hirota, Kuniaki Koiso, and 24 co-defendants were indicted in Tokyo for war crimes.
James White, the discoverer of Carlsbad Canyon, died at age 63.
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Wednesday, April 24 1946. Firsts.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, Aircraft, Blog Mirror, France, Insurance, Socialism, Soviet Air Forces, U.S. Navy
Friday, April 24, 2026
Wednesday, April 24 1946. Firsts.
The Aerodrome: Wednesday, April 24 1946. Firsts.: The Blue Angels, flying F6F Hellcats, were formed. The first Blue Angels. The MiG-9 and the Yak-15 flew for the first time.
Wednesday, April 24 1946. Firsts.
The Blue Angels, flying F6F Hellcats, were formed.
The first Blue Angels.
The MiG-9 and the Yak-15 flew for the first time.
The French Constituent Assembly voted 487 to 63 to nationalize the insurance industry.
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Monday, April 20, 2026
Saturday, April 20, 1946. Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry regarding the problems of European Jewry and Palestine.
The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry recommended allowing up to 100,000 Jewish refugees from Europe to be resettled in Palestine but against the are becoming a Jewish state.
It was somewhat of a classic example of shutting the barn door after the horses have broken out. A Jewish migration to Palestine with the intent to make it a Jewish state was in full swing and events in the Middle East were getting very advanced on their own/ European Jewry had been made massively homeless by World War Two for obvious reasons, but in addition to that the events of the Russian Revolution and the following wars in the bloodlands had created additional incentives for Jewish populations to move.
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Thursday, April 18, 1946. Riding clubs, Yugoslavia, minor league baseball, teen queens.
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