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Other Notables from MCMXLVI

• End of WWII hostilities
• Boston Red Sox lose World Series 4-3 to the St Louis Cardinals
• Vincent du Vigneaud (US) synthesizes penicillin
• UN General Assembly opens first session, League of Nations dissolves
• The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Virginia's Jim Crow law requiring segregation of passengers on interstate buses is unconstitutional.
• Electronic numerical integrator and computer (ENIAC) is the world's first automatic electronic digital computer. Its early press releases claim such feats as multiplying 360 ten-digit numbers or extracting a square root "in a single second," but it draws so much electricity that it causes the lights in a nearby town to dim each time it is used.
• The color film Ektachrome introduced by Eastman Kodak is the first that a photographer can process himself.
• 12 Nazi leaders (including 1 tried in absentia) are sentenced to hang, 7 imprisoned, and 3 acquitted in the Nuremberg trials
• Republicans win majorities in the House and Senate (again!)
• George W. Bush is born on July 6
• Bikinis go on sale in Paris
• Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam
• Precursor to the CIA is established
  
  
  Also Born on December 24,1946 is Brenda Howard, American bisexual activist (d. 2005)
  W.C. Fields passes away the next day.
  
  Price of gasoline 21 cents per gallon
  Average annual salary $3,150
  Cost of a first class stamp $0.03