1946

EventsEdit

• Unveiling of the first computer ENIAC^[1]
• Carbon dating discovered.^[2]
• Dacron patented.^[3]
• League of Nations dissolved.^[4]
• Trygve Lie is elected first secretary-general of the UN.^[5]
• Paris peace conference.^[6]
• Nuremberg trials.^[7]
• Central Intelligence Agency formed.^[8]
• Jordan gains self-government.^[9]
• Civil war begins in Indochina between the Vietnamese under Ho Chi Minh and French.^[10]
• The two piece bathing suit is released and adopts the name 'bikini' from the atomic testing at Bikini Atoll.^[11]

SourcesEdit

• The World of Indiana Jones

Notes and referencesEdit

External linksEdit

• 1946 on Wikipedia