Video: 'Rail Strike Paralyzes America; Ike in Far East 1946/5/23'
(Thursday, May 23, 1946, 4:00 p.m. EST; during the Strike wave of 1945–46) — A countrywide railroad strike, which if prolonged may cripple the national economy and affect the life of every citizen, went into effect today as thousands of railroad workers walked off of their jobs. Continue reading Strike halts railroads, paralyzes nation 70 years ago this hour (May 23 1946)
Video: 'Doin' What Comes Naturally - Annie Get Your Gun (Original Broadway Cast 1946)'
(Thursday, May 16, 1946, 8:30 p.m. EDT) — The Irving Berlin musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Ethel Merman as Annie Oakley, opened tonight on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre.
Video: '1946 Occupied Austria Food Relief 221095-04'
(Saturday, May 11, 1946) — The first 20,000 CARE Packages, sent by a consortium of American charities to provide relief to the hungry of postwar Europe, arrived today at the French port of Le Havre
(Saturday, May 4, 1946) — “Prisoner of Love” by Perry Como with Russ Case and his Orchestra peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for three consecutive weeks (May 4/11/18, 1946).
Video: 'Alcatraz Gun Battle (1946)'
(Thursday, May 2, 1946, 2:30 p.m. local time) — Violence erupted today during a foiled escape attempt at the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay. The Battle of Alcatraz would claim the lives of three inmates and two correctional officers before it was put down two days later. Continue reading Riot breaks out at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary 70 years ago this hour (May 2 1946)
Video: 'Japanese war criminals go on trial in Tokyo Newsreel PublicDomainFootage.com'
(Monday, April 29, 1946, during the International Military Tribunal for the Far East) — Former Japanese Prime Ministers Hideki Tojo (1941–44), Kiichiro Hiranuma (1939), Koki Hirota (1936–37) and Kuniaki Koiso (1944–45), and 24 co-defendants were indicted today in Tokyo for war crimes, ranging from the murder of thousands of Americans at Pearl Harbor, to conspiracy “to secure military, naval, political and economic domination of the whole world.”
All of the surviving members of Tojo’s cabinet members were included in the 55 count indictment.
(Saturday, April 27, 1946) — “I’m a Big Girl Now” by Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra (with vocal by Betty Barclay) peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for one week.
Video: 'Documentary American Experience JFK Like No Other Part I' (JFK runs in 1946 at 38:13)
(Thursday, April 25, 1946) — John F. Kennedy officially announced today at the Parker House Hotel that he was running for the 11th Congressional District in Massachusetts (which included parts of Boston, Cambridge and Somerville).
The seat was being vacated by James Michael Curley after some backroom negotiations by Joe Kennedy, Sr.
(Monday, April 22, 1946, 6:45 p.m. EST) — Harlan F. Stone, the twelfth Chief Justice of the United States (1941-1946), died tonight of a massive cerebral hemorrhage at his Washington D.C. home. He was 73 years old.
Video: 'United Nations - April In Three Cities (1946)' (League of Nations at 1:05)
(Thursday, April 18, 1946, 5:43 p.m. local time) — The League of Nations, created as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War, expired tonight in Geneva and willed to the United Nations its physical assets in the hope that the new organization might succeed where the League had failed.
