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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Chips, who had started off his life as a family pet and who went on to be the most decorated American war dog of the Second World War, died. He served in the Algerian-Moroccan, Tunisian, Sicilian, Rhineland and Central Europe Campaigns and won the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart prior to the military ruling that only human beings could receive such awards.
He was returned to his owners, where he later died, after the war.
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Einstein warned "I believe that the abominable deterioration of ethical standards stems primarily from the mechanization and depersonalization of our lives ... Nostra culpa!"
First powered flight of the X-1.
The Rocky Mountain News reported on expenses associated with The Bomb.
As we noted then:
The impacts of the war in addition to the bomb were a story several pages in.
The plight of pregnant German girls in Munich, made so by American GIs, was seemingly without a solution and without sympathy. By this point the Occupation Authorities were allowing for fraternization, but the U.S. Army was not approving enlisted marriages. The young women seemingly expected help from the Army.
Munich had been Hitler's adopted town, we'd note, which is interesting in context here as the women in question would have become pregnant by American GIs very soon after the end of the war.
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The Far Eastern Commission exempted Emperor Hirohito from war crime prosecution.
Richard C. Miller took a series of swimsuit photographs of Marilyn Monroe. In them, which because of copyright we will not post here, she appears of much more normal proportions than she would later, which is interesting for a variety of reasons we've already covered.
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General Douglas MacArthur issued the first regulations against fraternization between American soldiers and Japanese citizens as an attempt to stop soldiers from consorting with prostitutes. The regulations would grow into an extensive program of segregation.
Montana Democrat Senator James Murray convened his Committee on Education and Labor for the first hearing on comprehensive national health insurance. His concern arose from his prior role as a labor lawyer for coal miners.
Murray had been born in Ontario and was moved to Butte upon the death of his father that very year. He was left a very wealthy man by an inheritance that came about when his uncle, who raised him, died.
Murray was an Irish American/Canadian Catholic and died in 1961.
It's really dispiriting to realize that national health insurance, which was a desire of the Truman Administration, has never come about. All the arguments against it really fail, but the opposition to it has left the United States the only major nation without it and has contributed enormously to the decline of the United States as a first rate nation since the 1970s.
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The April 1, 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake occurred which resulted in an tsunami that devastated parts of Hawaii, most notably Hilo. Up to 173 people were killed, mostly in Hawaii.
Warnings were given but many ignored them, thinking them an April Fools Day joke. The event is responsible for a much improved warning system.
Bituminous coal miners went on strike in the U.S.
The U.S. Navy destroyed 24 Japanese submarines. Seems like a terrible waste really.
The UK made Singapore a Crown Colony and separated it and its mostly Chinese ethnic population from Malaya.
What does Russia want was a question that was posed (from more than one Reddit sub).
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7,000 Allied soldiers served warrants on Nazi officials. Ausgezeichnet!
The first Greek elections since 1936 took place, with the Communist Party of Greece refusing to participate.
Russia, as a political subdivision of the USSR, paid its U.N. dues of $1,725,000, under the thesis that the USSR had multiple representation in the UN.
Trump would probably support an effort of Russia not to pay, which was feared at the time, sending the leader of the nation a Я люблю тебя, Дональд note, like he does in an implied way to the current leader of Russia constantly.
What's up with that?
Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort became yet another World War Two senior officer to die following the war, albeit his death was due to liver cancer.
