The following events occurred in August 1946:
August 16, 1946: Direct Action Day protest turns into rioting in Calcutta and 10,000 people die
August 13, 1946: H. G. Wells dies at age 79
August 1, 1946: U.S. President Truman signs Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Mitchell
The following events occurred in January 1946:
January 25, 1946: MacArthur spares Emperor Hirohito from war crimes trial
...replacing the Mercury dime
George Woolf
William Joyce, "Lord Haw Haw"