Events Date 1946 March | History by KabAstro

Ho Chi Minh Elected

Mar 2 Ho Chi Minh is elected President of North Vietnam

Vietnamese Communist Revolutionary Ho Chi Minh

Mar 2 Kingman Douglass becomes deputy director of CIA
Mar 3 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
Mar 3 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
Mar 5 Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.

Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

Mar 5 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Mar 6 France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
Mar 7 "Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 323 performances

18th Academy Awards

Mar 7 18th Academy Awards: "The Lost Weekend" Ray Milland & Joan Crawford win

Bikini Atoll is Evacuated

Mar 7 Bikini Atoll islanders are evacuated by the US government to make way for a nuclear testing site

Residents of Bikini Atoll are evacuated to make way for nuclear testing

Mar 7 Max Frisch's play "Santa Cruz" premieres in Zürich
Mar 8 1st helicopter licensed for commercial use (NYC)
Mar 9 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang

Williams' Mexican League Offer

Mar 9 Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican Baseball League, he refuses

Mar 10 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju, northeast Brazil
Mar 13 Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium Socialist Party) forms Belgian government - then shortest Belgian government (ends 31 March)

Gilda

Mar 14 American film noir classic "Gilda", starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, and directed by Charles Vidor, premieres in New York City

Attlee Agrees Indian Independence

Mar 15 British Prime Minister Clement Attlee agrees with India's right to independence

Mar 16 "Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 77 performances
Mar 19 French Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique & Reunion become overseas "departments" of France
Mar 19 Nikolai Mikhailovich Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
Mar 21 Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933
Mar 21 UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
Mar 22 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
Mar 22 Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan
Mar 23 8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats North Carolina, 43-40; Cowboys' back-to-back titles and center Bob Kurland MOP for 2nd straight year

Ebony Concerto

Mar 25 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto", by Woody Herman and His Thundering Herd, at Carnegie Hall, New York City

Mar 28 Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
Mar 29 1st Test Cricket between Australia & NZ
Mar 29 Australian cricket bowlers Bill O'Reilly (5/14) and Ernie Toshack (4/12) rout NZ for 42 in one-off Test in Wellington; Test debuts of greats Ray Lindwall, Keith Miller & Don Tallon

3rd Golden Globes

Mar 30 3rd Golden Globes: "The Lost Weekend" and its star Ray Milland, & Ingrid Bergman win

Mar 30 Australia beats NZ in cricket at 3 30pm on 2nd day

St Louis Woman

Mar 30 Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's musical "St Louis Woman", starring Pearl Bailey and featuring the Nicholas Brothers, opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC; runs for 113 performances

Mar 30 Last Test Cricket appearance of Bill O'Reilly (5-14 & 3-19)
Mar 31 Belgian government of Acker forms
Mar 31 Belgian government of Spaak resigns - shortest ever Belgian government
Mar 31 First election is held in Greece after World War II