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1946
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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $222.6 billion Federal spending: $55.23 billion Federal debt: $271.0 billion Dow Jones High/Low: 212/165 Consumer Price Index: 19.5 Unemployment: 3.9% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
Sports
World SeriesSt. Louis Cardinals d. Boston Red Sox (4-3)Stanley CupMontreal d. Boston (4-1)WimbledonWomen: Pauline Betz d. L. Brough (6-2 6-4) Men: Yvon Petra d. G. Brown (6-2 6-4 7-9 5-7 6-4)Kentucky Derby ChampionAssaultNCAA Basketball ChampionshipOklahoma A&M d. North Carolina (43-40)NCAA Football ChampionsNotre Dame (8-0-1)World CupNot Held
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Music: The Canticle of the Sun, Leo Sowerby Drama: State of the Union, Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay Oscars awarded in 1946 Academy Award, Best Picture: The Lost Weekend (Paramount) Nobel Prize for Literature: Hermann Hesse (Switzerland) Miss America: Marilyn Buferd (CA) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- The Cannes Film Festival debuts in France.
- The Best Years of Our Lives debuts, and is immediately recognized as a classic post-War film that accuratelyand poignantlyportrays the readjustment families face when loved ones return from battle. The film won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor.
- Faraway Hill, what many television historians consider to be the first network soap opera, debuts on the DuMont network.
- George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein establish the New York City Ballet. It makes its home at Lincoln Center in 1964.
- Roberto Rossellini's Neorealist ode to the Italian Resistance, Rome, Open City, presents an alternative to Hollywood with its use of street cinematography, lyrically capturing the despair and confusion of post-World War II Europe.
Movies- It's a Wonderful Life, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Razor's Edge
MusicBooks- Elizabeth Bishop, North and South
- Albert Camus, The Stranger
- Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle
- Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding
- Benjamin Spock, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
- Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
- Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding
- William Carlos Williams, Paterson, Part One
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: James B. Sumner (US), for crystallizing enzymes; John H. Northrop and Wendell M. Stanley (both US), for preparing enzymes and virus proteins in pure form Physics: Percy Williams Bridgman (US), for studies and inventions in high-pressure physics Physiology or Medicine: Herman J. Muller (US), for hereditary effects of X-rays on genes
- US Atomic Energy Commission is formed (Aug. 1). Background: nuclear energy
- Vincent du Vigneaud (US) synthesizes penicillin.
- The US Army makes radar contact with the moon for the first time. Background: Astronomy
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