1946

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s

Years: 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 - 1946 - 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951

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Events:

• The 20mm Vulcan [gatling gun]? is invented

Births:

• February 11 - [M C Walker]?, CEO of [Iceland Frozen Foods]?.
• February 11 - [Timothy Chambers]? pediatrician.
• May 20: Cher?, American singer
• August 19 - Bill Clinton, American president (1993-2000)
• November 5 - Herman Brood, Dutch rock 'n' roll artist

Deaths:

• October 15 - Hermann Goering, head of the Nazi-army (suicide)
• October 16 - [Artur Seiss-Inquart]?, Austrian national-socialist leader, governor of The Netherlands during the German occupation (1940-1945) (executed)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Percy Williams Bridgman]?
• Chemistry - [James Batcheller Sumner]?, [John Howard Northrop]?, [Wendell Meredith Stanley]?
• Medicine - [Hermann Joseph Muller]?
• Literature - Hermann Hesse
• Peace - [Emily Greene Balch]? [John Raleigh Mott]?