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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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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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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The Indianapolis 500 was run for the first time since 1941. George Robson, took the race.
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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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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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:
A tornado outbreak occurred across the Central and Midwestern United States which would continue into the following day.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
A prison riot was ongoing at Alcatraz.
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Former Japanese Prime Ministers Hideki Tojo, Hiranuma Kiichirō, Kōki Hirota, Kuniaki Koiso, and 24 co-defendants were indicted in Tokyo for war crimes.
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.
The Blue Angels, flying F6F Hellcats, were formed.
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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The Powell Valley Riding club was formed in Powell Wyoming.
The League of Nations dissolved and transferred its assets to the United Nations.
Jackie Robinson appeared in his first minor league game in the farm teams for Major League Baseball. He had previously played for the Kansas City Monarchs. His current team was the Montreal Royals.
The US recognized the government of Tito in Yugoslavia.
The International Court of Justice held its first meeting.
English actress and 1960s Disney teen queen Haley Mills was born.
She managed to transition into adult roles after her Disney era and still acts. Probably her most famous early movie was The Parent Trap.
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Syria became fully independent.
Largescale protests in Japan broke out against the U.S. selected Prime Minister, Kijūrō Shidehara in favor of Ichirō Hatoyama, leader of the Liberal Party that won a majority in the April 10 election. The latter had been prohibited from taking office by the US on the basis of his having served the former wartime government.
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1946 End of Special Session of the Legislature concerning funding of the University of Wyoming.
The first television network, DuMont Television Network, came into being.
The Florida Foods Corporation introduced frozen concentrated orange juice. The product was called Minute Maid, which of course still exists.
The comic strip Mark Trail was introduced.
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The Chinese Communist Party announced the resumption of the Chinese Civil War. The Red Army had just pulled out of Manchuria, explaining the timing.
Sh'erit ha-Pletah members of Nakam, the "Jewish Avengers", commenced a campaign of poisoning SS prisoners held at Stalag XIII-D in Nuremberg. Bread was laced by arsenic. It is not known how many of the SS prisoners died.
The American Baseball Guild was formed by Robert Murphy to advocate for player rights. While it would not last long, it would foreshadow the later players union.
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