Events Date 1946 July | History by KabAstro

The Cession of Sarawak

Jul 1 The last White Rajah, Charles Vyner Brooke cedes Sarawak to the British Crown

3rd and Last White Rajah of Sarawak Charles Vyner Brooke

Jul 1 US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)
Jul 2 Dutch Beel government forms
Jul 2 Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam and Amsterdam
Jul 3 1st Dutch government of Louis Beel forms
Jul 3 The Cape Passive Resistance Council is formed at a mass meeting in Cape Town, attended by 1,500 people
Jul 4 Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die
Jul 4 Philippines gains independence from US

President Manuel Roxas

Jul 4 President Manuel Roxas inaugurated as the 5th President of the Philippines and the 1st President of an independent Philippines at the Independence Grandstand, Manila

5th President of the Philippines Manuel Roxas

British Men's Open

Jul 5 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: In first post-WWII Championship, Sam Snead wins his only Open title, 4 strokes clear of runners-up Johnny Bulla & Bobby Locke

Jul 5 Louis Reard's design for a bikini swimsuit debuts at the Paris fashion show
Jul 5 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Frenchman Yvon Petra beats Australian Geoff Brown 6-2, 6-4, 7-9, 5-7, 6-4 for his only Wimbledon title
Jul 6 "St Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater, NYC, after 113 performances

All American Final

Jul 6 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: In an all-American matchup Pauline Betz beats Louise Brough 6-2, 6-4 for her only Wimbledon crown

Jul 7 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, Catholic nun (Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,) canonized as 1st American saint
Jul 8 "Tidbits of 1946" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 8 performances
Jul 8 Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary
Jul 9 13th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 12-0 at Fenway Park, Boston
Jul 10 Belgian government of Acker resigns
Jul 11 Kingman Douglass ends term as deputy director of CIA

Rape of Lucretia

Jul 12 Benjamin Britten's "Rape of Lucretia" premieres at Glyndebourne Opera Festival

Jul 12 Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park HR
Jul 13 Musical revue "Tidbits of 1946" closes at Plymouth Theater, NYC. after 8 performances

Red Sox 11 Cleveland 10

Jul 14 Cleveland's Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles & HR, but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8 RBIs

Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care

Jul 14 Dr Benjamin Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" published

Jul 14 Kielce pogrom: Mob of civilians, police and soldiers investigating false kidnapping allegation attack Jewish Holocaust survivors in Kielce, Poland; 42 killed, 40+ injured [1]
Jul 15 British North Borneo Company transfers its rights to modern day Sabah to the British Crown
Jul 16 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in San Francisco history)
Jul 16 US court martial sentences 46 members of the SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau
Jul 21 Jesus T Pinerol becomes 1st native born Puerto Rican governor
Jul 22 Militant Zionist organization Irgun bombs the British administrative headquarters for Palestine in southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people of various nationalities injuring 46

Bombing of King David Hotel

Jul 23 Menachem Begin's Zionist militant group Irgun bombs the King David Hotel, the then British administrative headquarters for Palestine

Jul 24 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League) die in a bus crash
Jul 24 US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island

Martin and Lewis's First Show

Jul 25 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team at 500 Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Jul 25 US detonates an underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands (5th atomic explosion)
Jul 26 Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport
Jul 27 45th Women's French Championships: Margaret Osborne beats Pauline Betz (1-6, 8-6, 7-5)
Jul 27 Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs