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1945 Aelana earthquake

The 1945 Aelana earthquake, known in Turkish sources as the Ceyhan or Ceyhan–Misis earthquake, struck Adana Province, Turkey, on March 20, 1945, destroying about 2,500 houses.

1945 Algerian famine

The 1945 Algerian famine, remembered as "the year of hunger" (عام الجوع), struck Muslim communities in French Algeria in 1944 and 1945, worst in Constantine and Kabylie.

1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash

The 1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash occurred when a US Army B-25 bomber, lost in fog, struck the building on July 28, 1945, killing 14 people.

1945 in aviation

1945 in aviation was the final year of World War II air operations, marked by German Me 262 jet combat, a 60 percent jump in US airline traffic, and the founding of PICAO.

1945 Mikawa earthquake

The 1945 Mikawa earthquake (三河地震) was a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck Mikawa Bay in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on January 13, 1945, killing 2,306 people.

1945 Mongolian independence referendum

The 1945 Mongolian independence referendum, held on 20 October 1945 in the Mongolian People's Republic, confirmed independence from China, with official results recording every ballot in favor and none against.

1945 Nigerian general strike

The 1945 Nigerian general strike was Nigeria's first general strike, a countrywide stoppage by government workers demanding a minimum wage, lasting from June 22 to August 4, 1945.

1945 Pakistan earthquake

The 1945 Pakistan earthquake was a magnitude 8.1 quake off the Makran coast on 27 November 1945 that generated the deadliest tsunami recorded in the Arabian Sea.

1945 United Kingdom general election

The 1945 United Kingdom general election, held 5 July 1945 with results on 26 July, gave Clement Attlee's Labour a landslide over Winston Churchill's Conservatives, 393 seats to 213, the first majority Labour government.

1946

1946 (Showa 21) was the first full year of peace after World War II, when the United Nations began operating and the Cold War took shape.

1946 Bolivian coup d'état

The 1946 Bolivian coup d'état was the violent overthrow of President Gualberto Villarroel by a popular uprising in La Paz on 21 July 1946, in which he was killed.

1946 Cabinet Mission to India

The 1946 Cabinet Mission to India, a British cabinet delegation led by Lord Pethick-Lawrence with Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, proposed a united India plan in 1946.

1946 Dominican Republic earthquake

The 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake was a magnitude 8 earthquake off the country's north coast on August 4, 1946, the largest recorded in the Caribbean Basin.

1946 forint stabilization

The 1946 forint stabilization was the Hungarian monetary reform of 1 August 1946 that replaced the hyperinflating pengő with the forint, ending the worst hyperinflation ever recorded.

1946 Hodna Mountains earthquake

The 1946 Hodna Mountains earthquake struck northern Algeria on 12 February 1946, killing between 264 and 277 people and destroying about 1,000 houses around Berhoum.

1946 Honshu earthquake

The 1946 Honshu earthquake, known in Japan as the Showa Nankai earthquake (昭和南海地震), was a magnitude 8 earthquake off southern Honshu on December 21, 1946, with a deadly tsunami.

1946 Indian Constituent Assembly election

1946 Indian Constituent Assembly election: indirect election of Constituent Assembly members by provincial legislatures in July 1946 under the Cabinet Mission Plan, using single transferable vote; Congress won 208 of 292 seats, the Muslim League 73 and boycotted the Assembly.

1946 Italian institutional referendum

The 1946 Italian institutional referendum was a vote held on 2 June 1946 in which Italian voters chose a republic over the Savoy monarchy, with 54.27 percent for the republic.

1946 Jocaibamba earthquake

The 1946 Jocaibamba earthquake, also called the 1946 Ancash earthquake, was a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck the Andes of Ancash, Peru on 10 November 1946, killing about 1,400 people.

1946 South Korean general strike

The 1946 South Korean general strike (9월 총파업, September General Strike) was a nationwide labor stoppage against the US military government, begun by railway workers and drawing about 251,000 participants.

1946 Turkmenistan earthquake

The 1946 Turkmenistan earthquake, known as the Kazandzhik earthquake, was a magnitude 7.0 quake that struck western Turkmenistan in November 1946, destroying most buildings in Kazandzhik and killing about 400 people.

1946 Unimak Island earthquake

The 1946 Unimak Island earthquake was a magnitude-7.4 quake off Alaska on April 1, 1946, whose tsunami destroyed the Scotch Cap lighthouse and killed 159 people in Hawaii.

1946 United States House of Representatives elections

The 1946 United States House of Representatives elections, held November 5, 1946, gave Republicans control of the House for the first time in 15 years, gaining 55 seats.

1946 Ustukran earthquake

The 1946 Ustukran earthquake, also called the 1946 Muş-Varto-Hınıs earthquake, was a magnitude 5.9 quake that struck eastern Turkey on 31 May 1946, destroying most buildings in Varto and killing 839 people.

1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture

1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture is a 2022 documentary by Sharon "Rocky" Roggio about the word "homosexual" entering the 1946 Revised Standard Version Bible in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and its aftermath.

1947

1947: the postwar hinge year of partition of India and Pakistan, the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan, the National Security Act, Italy's Einaudi stabilization, China's failed anti-inflation measures, and Japan's new constitution.

1947 Constitution of Burma

The 1947 Constitution of Burma was the founding constitution of the independent Union of Burma, in force from independence on 4 January 1948 until the 1962 military coup.

1947 Dustabad earthquake

The 1947 Dustabad earthquake was a magnitude 6.8–6.9 earthquake that struck eastern Iran on 23 September 1947, destroying villages and killing roughly 400 to 500 people.

1947 eruption of Akagisan

The 1947 eruption of Akagisan killed 699 people in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, when Typhoon Kathleen triggered a lahar down the Aratogawa river without any eruption.