1946 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
The run was lost by a chain of unfortunate events: Dom DiMaggio pulling up injured; the Red Sox lacking a better defensive replacement than Leon Culberson; Culberson being out of position on Walker's hit; Culberson's slow pickup of the ball, complicated by a rough outfield surface, and Culberson's weak throw; and Slaughter's speed and aggressive base-running. Slaughter  scored just as Red Sox catcher Roy Partee caught Pesky's relay up the line from home plate.


1946 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
The run put the Cardinals ahead 4–3 and proved to be the winning run. Harry "The Cat" Brecheen had come out of the bullpen during Boston's rally in the eighth when the Red Sox had two men on base, and he gave up the double by DiMaggio that tied the game. Brecheen allowed two singles to start the ninth inning, but then retired the Red Sox without giving up a run, to record his third victory of the Series.


1946 World Series, Composite box
1946 World Series (4–3): St. Louis Cardinals (N.L.) over Boston Red Sox (A.L.)


1946 World Snooker Championship
The 1946 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament held from 4 February to 18 May 1946. Joe Davis won the title by defeating Horace Lindrum by 78 frames to 67 in the final, although the winning margin was reached at 73–62. It was Davis's fifteenth championship win, maintaining his unbeaten record in the tournament since its first edition in 1927. The highest break of the event was 136, a new championship record, compiled by Davis in the final.


1946 World Snooker Championship
The competition was organised by the Billiards Association and Control Council. The final was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall in London, England, from 6 to 18 May. Other matches took place at various venues in the UK. The qualifying competition (known as the "B Section") took place from 7 January to 16 February, and the quarter-finals and semi-finals were staged from 4 February to 9 March. Davis retired from the competition following his victory.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Background
The World Snooker Championship is a professional tournament and the official world championship of the game of snooker. The sport was developed in the late 19th century by British Army soldiers stationed in India. Professional English billiards player and billiard hall manager Joe Davis noticed the increasing popularity of snooker compared to billiards in the 1920s, and with Birmingham-based billiards equipment manager Bill Camkin, persuaded the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC) to recognise an official professional snooker championship in the 1926–27 season.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Background
In 1927, the final of the first professional snooker championship was held at Camkin's Hall; Davis won the tournament by beating Tom Dennis in the final. The annual competition was not titled the World Championship until the 1935 tournament, but the 1927 tournament is now referred to as the first World Snooker Championship. Davis had also won the title every year from 1928 to 1940, after which the tournament was not held again until 1946 due to World War II.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Background
The BACC's official magazine, The Billiard Player, reported in August 1945 that "It is expected by the beginning of next year that the majority of professional players will be free from their [military] Service duties, and it should therefore be possible to run the official championships about March." In the October 1945 issue, it was announced that entries for the competition would close at noon on 31 October, with a stake fee of £20 required. All matches except the final were to be of 31 frames, played across three days, at venues arranged by the players involved. The final would be played over 73 frames at a location determined by the BACC, expected to last one week, but with the organisers having the option to extend the duration to two weeks.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Summary
The Championship attracted a total of 14 entries; a total of 13 were originally announced, with Fred Lawrence being added a few days later. Entries were divided into a qualifying group (Section B), the winner joining seven others in the main draw (Section A).


1946 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Quarter-finals
Joe Davis and Walter Donaldson met in Wellington, Shropshire from 4 to 6 February 1946. Davis led 6–4 and 12–8 after the first two days. He took a winning lead during the final afternoon session at 16–9. The final score was 21–10. Davis made a break of 129 in frame 29. From 18 to 20 February, Stanley Newman, the winner of the qualifying competition, faced Sydney Lee at the Clifton Hotel in Blackpool. Newman led 6–4 and 12–8 after the first two days. He won four of the five frames on the final afternoon session to lead 16–9. The final score was 19–12.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Quarter-finals
Fred Davis played Alec Brown from 7 to 9 March, in the second match to be played at the Clifton Hotel. Davis won the first nine frames and led 9–1 overnight. He built a 15–5 lead after two days, to require only one further frame for victory. Davis won frame 21 to win the match 16–5. The final score was 24–7. Horace Lindrum defeated Herbert Holt 17–14 in the last quarter-final match, played in Streatham, London, from 4 to 6 March. Lindrum was 6–4 in front after the first day, and won four consecutive frames to go from 6–6 to 10–6, finishing the second day at 11–9.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Semi-finals
The semi-finals were held in Oldham. Joe Davis met Newman in the first match, from 4 to 6 March. Davis led 6–4 after the first day, making a break of 106 in the eighth frame. He extended his lead to 13–7 after the second day and won the match 21–10.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Semi-finals
From 7 to 9 March, Lindrum and Fred Davis played in the second semi-final. Lindrum took a 7–3 lead on the first day. Davis reduced his deficit to two frames on the next day, leaving Lindrum 11–9 ahead. Davis levelled the match at 11–11 but Lindrum won the next three frames to lead 14–11. In the evening session Lindrum took two of the first three frames to achieve a winning 16–12 lead. The final score was 17–14.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final
The final was played from 6 to 18 May 1946 at the Horticultural Hall, London. There were two sessions, starting at 3:00 pm and 7:30 pm, scheduled each day (except on 12 May when there was no play). The referee was T. Bradlaugh Leng, and Joyce Gardner was the compere. There were 1,250 spectator tickets available for each session, at prices ranging from 5 shillings to 1 guineas.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final
Davis's preparations for the match included physical exercises under the supervision of his wife June Malo, a former army physical training instructor, and he stopped driving as he felt it affected his hands' steadiness. He told the Daily Mirror that "All that bending down to the table can play hell with your system if you are not prepared for it."


1946 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final
After the first day of the final Joe Davis led Lindrum 7–5. Lindrum, however, claimed the first three frames of the third session to lead 8–7, before Davis responded by winning the last three frames and regaining the lead at 10–8, and finishing the day leading 14–10. Lindrum reduced his deficit to two frames at the end of the third day, and trailed only 17–19. Davis however regained the four frame lead a day later at 26–22, and maintained it at the end of the fifth day by 32–28.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final
Davis than won seven of the next twelve frames to gain a six frame lead at 39–33, and maintained it over the next three days leading 45–39, 51–45 and 57–51, before gaining a 10 frame advantage at 65–55. He maintained this lead at the end of the penultimate day, and at 71–61 only needed two frames to retain the title. Davis then won 78–67, although the winning margin was already reached at 73–62, Davis made an unprecedented six century breaks in the final, including championship records of 133 and 136. He only needed 7 minutes, 15 seconds for the record 133 break, which was also Davis' 200th century break. Davis won one frame 145–0, which at the time was the highest aggregate score ever recorded in one frame. Over the tournament Davis made ten century breaks.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final
Davis said after the match that he was relieved that the contest had finished, and that "It has been a great strain. Over the match I have lost five pounds in weight." Lindrum wrote in 1974 that although he had been disappointed to lose the final, "I still enjoyed it and I had been a part of what I still consider to be the greatest final in the history of the game."


1946 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final
Tickets for the final sold well, with full audience attendances at sessions, and gate receipts for the match totalled £11,487.60, (equivalent to £480,015 in 2019). Davis and Lindrum received £1,800 and £550 respectively in prize money. Lindrum also received the championship table and all the equipment. Live radio broadcasts were transmitted in the UK and in Australia, with commentary from Gardner and Willie Smith. During one of the Australian programmes, Gardner was the commentator when Davis made the first century break to be broadcast live.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Summary, Final
This was the 15th and last championship victory for Davis, who having achieved his ambition to hold the title for 20 years and retire undefeated, announced that he would not participate in future world championships.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Main draw
Match results are shown below. Winning players and scores are denoted in bold text.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Qualifying
Kingsley Kennerley met Fred Lawrence from 7 to 9 January at the Delicia Stadium, Gosta Green. The opening day's play was littered with foul shots according to David Williams in the Daily Herald, who wrote that the match was watched by "a handful of people in a freezing disused cinema". Kennerley secured a winning margin at 16–6. Stanley Newman and Willie Leigh played at the St John Ambulance Hallin Newquay, Cornwall from 10 to 12 January, with Newman winning in the deciding frame. Conrad Stanbury played John Barrie from 28 to 30 January in Woolwich, London.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Qualifying
In the semi-finals of the qualifying, Tom Reece retired with the score at 2–8 after the first day, 17 January, of his match at Wellington, Shropshire with Kennerley, and Newman defeated Stanbury 17–14 in their match held from 11 to 13 February in Tooting, London. The final between Newman and Kennerley was played from 14 to 16 February in Tooting. Newman won all eleven frames played on the third day, and achieved a winning margin at 16–10 to qualify for the main draw.


1946 World Snooker Championship, Qualifying
Match results are shown below. Winning players and scores are denoted in bold text.


1946 World Weightlifting Championships
The 1946 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Paris, France from October 18 to October 19, 1946. There were 79 men in action from 13 nations.


1946 Wyoming Cowboys football team
The 1946 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming in the Mountain States Conference (MSC) during the 1946 college football season. In its third and final season under head coach Bunny Oakes, the Cowboys compiled a 1–8–1 record (0–6 against MSC opponents) and was outscored by a total of 192 to 44.


1946 Wyoming Cowboys football team, After the season
The 1947 NFL Draft was held on December 16, 1946. The following Cowboys were selected.


1946 Wyoming gubernatorial election
The 1946 Wyoming gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1946. Incumbent Democratic Governor Lester C. Hunt ran for re-election to a second term. Former Republican Governor Nels H. Smith, whom Hunt defeated in 1942, announced that he would challenge Hunt for re-election, but he was defeated the Republican primary by State Treasurer Earl Wright. In the general election, even though the Republican Party had a strong performance nationwide, Wyoming Democrats did well; Hunt defeated Wright by a wider margin than his 1942 victory as Democratic U.S. Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney similarly won another term.


1946 Wyoming state elections
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Wyoming on Tuesday, November 5, 1946. All of the state's executive officers—the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Public Instruction—were up for election. The election was largely a rout for the Republican Party. Though Democratic Governor Lester C. Hunt was narrowly re-elected, Democrats lost their two other state offices: Auditor and Secretary of State (which they picked up following a vacancy). Moreover, they were unable to win back any other state offices.


1946 Wyoming state elections, Governor
Incumbent Democratic Governor Lester C. Hunt ran for re-election to a second term. Though his predecessor, former Governor Nels H. Smith, planned a rematch against Hunt, he lost the Republican primary to State Treasurer Earl Wright. In the general election, Hunt defeated Wright by a narrow margin, but improved from his 1942 election. During Hunt's second term, he would be elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948, vacating his office. Secretary of State Arthur G. Crane ascended to the governorship, while still acting as Secretary of State.


1946 Wyoming state elections, Secretary of State
In 1944, Republican Secretary of State Mart Christensen passed away while in office. Governor  Hunt appointed longtime State Auditor William M. Jack as Christensen's replacement. Jack declined to run for re-election or for any other office, creating an open seat. Earl R. Burns, the Chairman of the Wyoming Public Service Commission, won the Democratic nomination unopposed and advanced to the general election against Arthur G. Crane, the former President of the University of Wyoming. The general election was not close, and Crane was elected Secretary of State over Burns by a landslide. During Crane's term, Governor Hunt would be elected to the U.S. Senate, and Crane would serve as both acting Governor and Secretary of State.


1946 Wyoming state elections, Auditor
Following the death of Secretary of State Mart T. Christensen, Democratic State Auditor William M. Jack was appointed as his replacement by Governor, who, in turn, appointed Carl Robinson as Jack's successor. In 1945, Robinson resigned from office and Governor Hunt appointed former Congressman John J. McIntyre as his replacement. McIntyre opted to run for Congress rather than seek re-election, and no other Democratic candidates filed for the election. In early July, however, Major Alvin C. Wade of the United States Army announced a write-in campaign, and won enough votes to receive the Democratic nomination. In the general election, Copenhaver defeated Wade by a decisive margin.


1946 Wyoming state elections, Auditor, Democratic primary
No Democratic candidates filed to run for Auditor. However, on July 8, Major Alvin C. Wade of the U.S. Army announced that he would run as a write-in candidate for the party's nomination. He accepted the nomination upon receiving the requisite number of write-in votes.


1946 Wyoming state elections, Treasurer
Incumbent Republican State Treasurer Earl Wright, unable to seek re-election, instead opted to run for Governor. Doc Rogers, who had unsuccessfully run for Auditor in 1938 and Treasurer in 1942, ran against State Senator Thomas Stirling and former State Representative Carl Dallam in a close Republican primary. Rogers was narrowly leading Stirling as votes were tallied on election night, with the final tally putting him ahead of Stirling by 99 votes.


1946 Wyoming state elections, Treasurer
However, alleged irregularities with how the primary was conducted in Natrona County were raised, namely that "candidate names had not been properly placed on ballots and that ballots had been opened before being placed in ballot boxes." However, the Secretary of State's office concluded that it was without jurisdiction to evaluate the allegations and certified Rogers's nomination.


1946 Wyoming state elections, Treasurer
In the general election, Rogers faced Democratic nominee David B. Gilfillan, the State Commissioner of Labor. Despite the closeness of the Republican primary and allegations of impropriety, the general election was not close, and Rogers defeated Gilfillan in a landslide.


1946 Wyoming state elections, Superintendent of Public Instruction
Incumbent Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Esther Anderson declined to run for a third term, instead endorsing Edna B. Stolt, the Supervisor of Elementary and Special Education the State Department of Education, as her successor. Stolt faced high school teacher Nancy L. Jones and former Governor Alonzo M. Clark in the Republican primary, whom she narrowly defeated to advance to the general election. Velma Linford, a high school teacher, won the Democratic primary unopposed and opposed Stolt in the general election. Despite the broad support for Republican candidates around the state, the race between Stolt and Linford was close, with Stolt only beating her opponent by 2,545 votes.


1946 Yale Bulldogs football team
The 1946 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1946 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by fifth-year head coach Howard Odell, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 7–1–1 record.


1946 Yale Bulldogs football team, After the season
The 1947 NFL Draft was held on December 16, 1946. The following Bulldogs were selected.


1946 Youngstown Penguins football team
The 1946 Youngstown Penguins football team represented Youngstown University—now known as Youngstown State University The Penguins were led by eighth year head coach Dike Beede and played their home games at Rayen Stadium.


1946 Yugoslav Constitution
The 1946 Yugoslav Constitution, officially titled as the Constitution of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbian: Устав Федеративне Народне Републике Југославије; Croatian: Ustav Federativne Narodne Republike Jugoslavije), was the first constitution of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. It was adopted by the Constitutional Assembly of Yugoslavia, elected on 11 November 1945. Constitution came into effect at its promulgation, on 31 January 1946.


1946 Yugoslav Constitution, Background
Elections for the Constitutional Assembly of Yugoslavia were held 11 November 1945. Electoral process was dominated by the People's Front of Yugoslavia (PFY), a political coalition led by the ruling Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY). Since opposition parties were suppressed, electoral list of PFY won an overwhelming electoral victory, thus allowing CPY to proceed with its plans for definite abolition of the already weakened monarchy. On November 29 (1945), by a declaration of the Constitutional Assembly, Yugoslavia was officially proclaimed as people's republic, and federation, under the name: Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (FPRY). In the same time, drafting of the new constitution was initiated. On 31 January 1946, Constitution was adopted and promulgated. Solemn proclamation of the new Constitution was officiated by Ivan Ribar, President of the Presidency of the Constitutional Assembly of Yugoslavia.


1946 Yugoslav Constitution, Constitutional provisions
Constitution has defined Yugoslavia as a people's republic, and a federation (Article 1), thus finalizing two main political goals of the People's Front of Yugoslavia (PFY), and the ruling Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY), led by Josip Broz Tito, at that time President of the Yugoslav Government.


1946 Yugoslav Constitution, Constitutional provisions
Under the Article 2 of the Constitution, federal state was defined as union of six federated states, in following constitutional order: the People's Republic of Serbia, the People's Republic of Croatia, the People's Republic of Slovenia, the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the People's Republic of Macedonia, and the People's Republic of Montenegro.


1946 Yugoslav Constitution, Constitutional provisions
Two existing autonomous units were also confirmed, within the People's Republic of Serbia: first being the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, and second being the Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija. Under the Article 44, creation of new autonomous provinces and new autonomous regions was also allowed.


1946 Yugoslav Constitution, Constitutional provisions
Equality of all citizens and all groups was proclaimed and guarantied, but not a single nationality or ethnicity was mentioned by name in the entire text of the Constitution. Also, no official languages was defined.


1946 Yugoslav Constitution, Constitutional provisions
One of the most important characteristics of the Constitution was that it resembled the Constitution of the Soviet Union (1936). Yugoslav constitution promoted dominant position of state property, organization of authority on the principle of unity of authority and dichotomous division of all state authority on state authorities and state administration.


1946 Yugoslav Constitution, Constitutional provisions
The division of jurisdiction existed between the federal state, and six federated states. Distribution of power was based on the principle of "democratic centralism", which was defined by the leading Yugoslav constitutional ideologue of that time: Edvard Kardelj. That actually meant the introduction of the etatistic social models and centralist state regulations, side by side with the nominal federalism. Ideological, political and other forms of pluralism were excluded.


1946 Yugoslav Constitution, Constitutional provisions
This Constitution enabled further consolidation of the communist regime in the country. After the conflict with the Soviet Union broke out in 1948, Yugoslav authorities decided to find their own way to socialism. Legislative reform began with partial changes, in 1950 and 1952, but crucial change will be made by the Yugoslav Constitutional law of 1953.


1946 Yugoslav Constitution, Commentaries
In his address to the Fifth Congress (1948) of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, general secretary Josip Broz Tito referred to several articles of the Constitution to demonstrate its liberal nature.


1946 Yugoslav Constitution, Commentaries
Let us take only Article 1 of the Constitution, which says: "The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is a federal national state of republican structure, a community of peoples enjoying equal rights, who on the basis of the right to self-determination, including the right to secede, have expressed their will to live together in a federated state."


1946 Yugoslav Constitution, Commentaries
There, that is how national equality is settled here, that is how it is codified and put fully into practice. Further, how is the question of power settled in the Constitution and in practice in this country? In Article 6 it is stated: "In the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia all power derives from the people and belongs to the people.


1946 Yugoslav Constitution, Commentaries
The people exercise their power through the freely elected representative bodies of state authority, from the people's committees which, from the local people's committees up to the assemblies of the people's republics and the People's Assembly of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia originated and developed in the People's Liberation War against Fascism and reaction and which are the basic achievements of that struggle."


1946 Yugoslav Constitution, Commentaries
Consequently, the Constitution has only confirmed, or rather codified, what was won during the war, that is to say the power of the people, the power of a real people's democracy.


1946 Yugoslav First Basketball League
The 1946 Yugoslav First Basketball League season is the second season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia.


1946 Yugoslav First Basketball League
The competition was held as an eight-team tournament held in Belgrade.


1946 Yugoslav Women's Basketball League
The 1946 Yugoslav Women's Basketball League is the 2nd season of the Yugoslav Women's Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in Yugoslavia for women's. Championships is played in 1946 in Belgrade and played four teams. Champion for this season is Crvena zvezda.


1946 college football season
The 1946 college football season finished with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish crowned as the national champion in the AP Poll, the Georgia Bulldogs recognized as national champion by the Williamson poll and United States Military Academy named as national champion in various other polls and rankings. The Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens were recognized by the AP as the small college national champion.


1946 college football season
Notre Dame and Army both won all of their games, with the exception of their November 9 meeting at New York's Yankee Stadium, where they had played to a 0–0 tie in a No. 1 vs No. 2 matchup regarded as a "Game of the Century". Neither team played in bowl game that season.


1946 college football season
During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the college football teams that would later be described as "Division I-A". The NCAA did recognize a national champion based upon the final results of the Associated Press poll of sportswriters (the UPI Coaches poll would not start until 1950). The extent of that recognition came in the form of acknowledgment in the annual NCAA Football Guide of the "unofficial" national champions.


1946 college football season
Georgia and UCLA would finish the regular season as the only unbeaten and untied teams. UCLA lost in the Rose Bowl and Georgia was victorious in the Sugar Bowl.


1946 college football season
Several new bowl games would debut, among them the Tangerine Bowl (later known as the Citrus Bowl and currently known as the VRBO Citrus Bowl).


1946 college football season, September
The Associated Press did not poll the writers until the third week of the season. Among the teams that had been ranked highest at the end of 1946, the two service academies—Army and Navy, as well as Alabama, Indiana and Oklahoma State, several had faltered before the first poll. Army beat Villanova 35–0 on September 21, and Oklahoma State beat Denver, 40–7, but Indiana lost to the University of Cincinnati, 15–6. Also on September 21, Houston of the Lone Star Conference played its first ever football game against Louisiana–Lafayette of the Louisiana Intercollegiate Conference, in which Houston was defeated by a score of 13–7.


1946 college football season, September
On September 28, Army beat Oklahoma 21–7, and Navy beat Villanova 7–0. Alabama edged Southern Mississippi in a game at Montgomery, 13–12. Indiana lost again, 21–0 at Michigan, and OK State was tied 21–21 by Arkansas. Notre Dame won at Illinois, 26–6, and UCLA beat Oregon State 50–7.


1946 college football season, October
On October 5, Army beat Cornell 46–21. Navy lost at Columbia and dropped the rest of its games, finishing 1–8–0. Oklahoma State lost 54–6 at Texas and would finish at 3–7–1. Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh 33–0. Michigan beat Iowa 14–7. UCLA won at Washington, 39–13. In the poll that followed, One voter split his first place vote between Texas, Army, and Notre Dame, who received 69⅓, 21⅓ and 15⅓ votes respectively. Michigan and UCLA rounded out the Top Five.


1946 college football season, October
October 12  In Dallas, No. 1 Texas beat Oklahoma 20–13. No. 2 Army and No. 4 Michigan met in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the visiting Cadets won 20–13. No. 3 Notre Dame beat Purdue 49–6. No. 5 UCLA beat No. 17 Stanford 26–6.


1946 college football season, October
October 19 No. 1 Army beat No. 11 Columbia 48–14. No. 2 Notre Dame was idle. No. 3 Texas beat No. 14 Arkansas 20–0. No. 4 UCLA won at California 13–6. No. 5 Michigan and No. 10 Northwestern played to a 14–14 tie. No. 9 Tennessee beat No. 7 Alabama 12–0.


1946 college football season, October
October 26 At the Polo Grounds in New York, No. 1 Army beat No. 13 Duke 19–0. No. 2 Notre Dame won at No. 17 Iowa, 49–6. In Houston, No. 3 Texas lost to No. 16 Rice, 18–13. No. 4 Tennessee lost to unranked Wake Forest, 19–6. No. 5 UCLA beat Santa Clara 33–7. No. 6 Penn beat Navy 32–19 and No. 7 Georgia won at Furman, 70–7


1946 college football season, November
November 2No. 1 Army beat West Virginia, 19–0. In Baltimore, No. 2 Notre Dame defeated Navy 28–0. No. 3 Pennsylvania lost to Princeton, 17–14. No. 5 Georgia beat No. 15 Alabama 14–0. No. 4 UCLA had beaten St. Mary's, 46–20, in a Friday night game. No. 8 Rice beat Texas Tech 41–6.


1946 college football season, November
November 9  A crowd of 74,000 turned out at New York's Yankee Stadium to watch No. 1 Army and No. 2 Notre Dame in a meeting of the nation's two unbeaten and untied teams. Both teams missed scoring opportunities. In the opening quarter, Army recovered a fumble on the Irish 24, but was stopped on fourth down at the 13 yard line. The Irish drove to the Army three yard line in the second quarter but no further.


1946 college football season, November
Army reached the Irish 20 yard line in the third quarter, but Notre Dame's Terry Brennan picked off a pass from Glenn Davis. In the last quarter, a bad punt was returned by Davis to the Irish 39 yard line, but they forced a fumble and stopped any further scoring chances. The game ended in a scoreless tie, 0–0. . In Jacksonville, No. 3 Georgia beat Florida 33-14. In Portland, No. 4 UCLA beat Oregon 14–0. No. 5 Rice lost in Little Rock to Arkansas, 7–0. No. 9 Penn returned to the Top Five after beating Columbia in New York's "other" football game, 41–6.


1946 college football season, November
November 16In its third meeting against a Top Five team, No. 1 Army beat No. 5 Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, 34–7. No. 2 Notre Dame beat Northwestern, 27–0. No. 3 Georgia beat Auburn 41–0 in a neutral site in Columbus, Georgia. No. 4 UCLA beat Montana 61–7. No. 9 Illinois beat No. 13 Ohio State, 16–7.


1946 college football season, November
November 23No. 1 Army was idle. No. 2 Notre Dame beat Tulane in New Orleans, 41–0. No. 3 Georgia won at Chattanooga, 48–27. No. 4 UCLA defeated No. 10 USC 13–6. No. 5 Illinois won at Northwestern, 20–0, to close its season with an 8–1–0 record


1946 college football season, November
November 30No. 1 Army barely beat a 1–7–0 Navy team, 21–18. No. 2 Notre Dame beat No. 16 USC, 26–6 No. 3 Georgia defeated No. 7 Georgia Tech 35–7. No. 4 UCLA beat Nebraska 18–0 and accepted an invitation to face No. 5 Illinois in the Rose Bowl.


1946 in Afghanistan
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in Afghanistan.


1946 in Afghanistan, May 1946
Sardar Shah Mahmud succeeds Sardar Mohammad Hashim as prime minister. This change of government, after a period of 17 years without change, leads to the proclamation of a general amnesty for political prisoners and the setting up of a high court of justice for the trial of future political offenders.


1946 in Afghanistan, June 5, 1946
Afghanistan applies for membership in the United Nations. This is approved on August 29, and Afghanistan is formally admitted as a member by the Assembly on November 19.


1946 in Afghanistan, June 13, 1946
An agreement is signed in Moscow by Vyacheslav Molotov and Sultan Ahmad Khan, Afghan ambassador, reestablishing the frontier which had existed between Afghanistan and imperial Russia; the new treaty concerns the frontier line along the Penj and Oxus rivers and provides for the incorporation in the U.S.S.R. of the Kashka district, ceded to Afghanistan in 1921.


1946 in Afghanistan, 1946
The women's movement in Afghanistan is resumed by the foundation of Women's Welfare Association, the first women's organisation in Afghanistan since the Anjuman-i Himayat-i-Niswan.


1946 in Albania
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in the People's Republic of Albania.


1946 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in Australia.


1946 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1946.


1946 in Australian literature, Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.


1946 in Australian literature, Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1946 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.


1946 in Australian literature, Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1946 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.


1946 in Brazil, Incumbents, Governors
(till 7 February); Pompílio Cylon Fernandes Rosa (from 7 February)


1946 in Brazilian football
The following article presents a summary of the 1946 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 45th season of competitive football in the country.


1946 in Brazilian football, Brazil national team
The following table lists all the games played by the Brazil national football team in official competitions and friendly matches during 1946.


1946 in British music
This is a summary of 1946 in music in the United Kingdom.


1946 in British radio
This is a list of events from British radio in 1946.


1946 in British television
This is a list of British television related events from 1946.


1946 in British television
British television broadcasts resumed this year. They had been suspended during World War II, for fear that the signals would help German bombers.


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Canadian issues in postwar Germany include pacification and recovery, export trade, reparations, and punishment of war crimes


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
British Prime Minister asks PM King not to withdraw occupation forces from Germany, arguing U.K. should not be expected to do all


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
"Purely and simply the extermination of allied airmen" - evidence that captured flyers accused of "terroristic attacks" were murdered


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Testimony against SS physician conducting biological experiments at Dachau concentration camp


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Nazis fought "an intellectual battle, the goal of which was the destruction of Christianity and the church"


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
"A giant quantity of valuables" - testimony that SS profited from clothing, jewellery and other belongings of murdered Jews


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
PM King announces royal commission to report on leaks of secrets, including to "a foreign mission in Ottawa"


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Soviets say PM's announcement tied to "unbridled anti-soviet campaign[... ]in the Canadian press and on[...]radio"


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
"In knowledge, with a sense of proportion" - editorial says there should be no hysteria in hunt for communists


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
In charge to jury at first espionage trial, judge says conspiracy "touches the very nerve centre of our national existence"


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Royal Commission on Espionage final report alleges "spy rings" include federal government employees and military officers


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Parsing reaction to Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, Lester Pearson finds U.S. hardening toward U.S.S.R. "depressing if not dangerous"


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Real possibility that food situation in Europe, India, China and elsewhere will worsen from "low caloric intake" to starvation


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
To help end world crisis, Canadians should conserve food and expect less meat, dairy, beer and spirits


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Canadian Wheat Board supports giving U.K. priority for wheat over UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
"Selective attraction[, not] repulsion" - Senate committee wants end to Immigration Act centred on exclusion ("Asiatic" excepted)


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Once veterans' employment has been seen to, Canadians should expect refugee Poles, Ukrainians, Mennonites and ethnic Germans


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
English woman and baby make voyage with 1,000 other war brides to Halifax and take train to her husband in Calgary


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Canadian citizenship, separate from British subject status, created by act specifying how it can be earned and lost, plus status of aliens


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Head of U.S. atomic research criticizes U.S.A.-U.K.-Canada agreement to jointly develop atomic energy for peace


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
U.S.A. asks that Loran network, useful for navigation, guided missiles and early warning, continue in North (request accepted)


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Responses from several reserves (Nanaimo to Shubenacadie) to Parliament's query about treaty rights, bands, schools, franchise etc.


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Indian residential school principal asks for small tractor to give practical experience to grade 7-9 boys taking mechanics course


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Joey Smallwood advocates Newfoundland entering Confederation by laying out federal government's "New Deal" offer to provinces


1946 in Canada, Historical documents
Film: sleighs loaded and pulled by tractor across Great Slave Lake to Yellowknife


1946 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1946
The WIFU resumed play for the first time since 1942. The IRFU increased their season play from 6 games to 12 games, per team.


1946 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1946
The Montreal Alouettes came into existence. The Regina Roughriders unofficially changed their name to become the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The name change eventually became official on April 1, 1950.


1946 in Canadian football, Canadian Football News in 1946
Air travel was used for the first time as the Toronto Argonauts flew to Winnipeg to play pre-season games against the Blue Bombers.


1946 in Canadian football, Regular season, Final regular season standings
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points


1946 in Canadian football, Grey Cup Championship
34th Annual Grey Cup Game: Varsity Stadium – Toronto, Ontario


1946 in Canadian football, 1946 Eastern (Combined IRFU & ORFU) All-Stars
NOTE: During this time most players played both ways, so the All-Star selections do not distinguish between some offensive and defensive positions.


1946 in Canadian football, 1946 Western (Western Interprovincial Football Union) All-Stars
NOTE: During this time most players played both ways, so the All-Star selections do not distinguish between some offensive and defensive positions.


1946 in Canadian football, 1946 Ontario Rugby Football Union All-Stars
NOTE: During this time most players played both ways, so the All-Star selections do not distinguish between some offensive and defensive positions.


1946 in Cape Verde
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in Cape Verde.


1946 in Chile
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in Chile.


1946 in China
Events in the year 1946 in the Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 35 according to the official Republic of China calendar.


1946 in Estonia
This article lists events that occurred during 1946 in Estonia.


1946 in French Indochina
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in French Indochina.


1946 in Iceland
The following lists events that happened in 1946 in Iceland.


1946 in Indonesia
Events in the year 1946 in Indonesia. The country had an estimated population of  69,973,500 people.


1946 in Iran
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in the Imperial State of Iran.


1946 in Jordan
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in Jordan.


1946 in Luxembourg
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.


1946 in Malaya
This article lists important figures and events in the public affairs of British Malaya during the year 1946, together with births and deaths of prominent Malayans. Malaya remained under British Military Administration until the establishment of the Malayan Union on 1 April.


1946 in Michigan, Top stories
The Associated Press polled editors of its member newspapers in Michigan and ranked the state's top news stories of 1946 as follows:


1946 in Michigan, Top stories
Other stories receiving votes but falling outside the top ten included the following:


1946 in Michigan, Population
In the 1940 United States Census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 5,256,106, ranking as the seventh most populous state in the country. By 1950, Michigan's population had increased by 21.2% to 6,371,766.


1946 in Michigan, Population, Cities
The following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 20,000 based on 1940 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1930 and 1950 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Cities that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.


1946 in Michigan, Population, Counties
The following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 75,000 based on 1940 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1930 and 1950 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases.


1946 in Michigan, Companies
The following is a list of major companies based in Michigan in 1946.


1946 in New Zealand
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in New Zealand.


1946 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government
The 27th New Zealand Parliament concluded, with the Labour Party in government. Labour was re-elected for a fourth term in the election in November, but with a smaller majority.


1946 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Film
See : Category:1946 film awards, 1946 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1946 films


1946 in New Zealand, Sport, Basketball
National Associations are formed for both men and women (now combined as Basketball New Zealand) and the first championship for men under the control of their association is held. (see 1938 and 1939)


1946 in New Zealand, Sport, Lawn bowls
The national outdoor lawn bowls championships are held in Christchurch.


1946 in Norwegian music
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1946 in Norwegian music.


1946 in Portugal, Sport
In association football, for the first-tier league seasons, see 1945–46 Primeira Divisão and 1946–47 Primeira Divisão; for the Taça de Portugal season, see 1945–46 Taça de Portugal.


1946 in South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in South Africa.


1946 in Southern Rhodesia
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in Southern Rhodesia.


1946 in Taiwan
Events in the year 1946 in Taiwan, Republic of China.


1946 in Thailand
The year 1946 was the 165th year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Thailand. It was the twelfth and last year in the reign of King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII), the first year in the reign of Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), and is reckoned as year 2489 in the Buddhist Era.


1946 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1946 to Wales and its people.


1946 in architecture
The year 1946 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.


1946 in association football
The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1946 throughout the world.


1946 in association football, Events
League and Cup competitions resume in the United Kingdom for the first time since the start of the Second World War in 1939.


1946 in baseball
The following are the baseball events of the year 1946  throughout the world.


1946 in comics
Notable events of 1946 in comics. See also List of years in comics.


1946 in country music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1946.


1946 in film
The year 1946 in film involved some significant events. The Best Years of Our Lives, released this year, became the highest-grossing film of the 1940s, and went on to win seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor.


1946 in film, Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1946 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:


1946 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
The year 1946 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian fine arts.


1946 in jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1946.


1946 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1946.


1946 in motorsport
The following is an overview of the events of 1946 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.


1946 in motorsport, Annual events
The calendar includes only annual major non-championship events or annual events that had own significance separate from the championship. For the dates of the championship events see related season articles.


1946 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1946.


1946 in music, Biggest hit songs
The following songs achieved the highest  in the limited set of charts available for 1946.


1946 in music, Classical music, Premieres
1Radio premiere. The Overture was subsequently withdrawn from Britten's catalogue, and it didn't receive its concert premiere until 1983, by the Chicago Symphony conducted by Raymond Leppard.


1946 in paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1946.


1946 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).


1946 in poetry, Events, MacSpaunday
Campbell, in common with much literary journalism of the period, imagines the four as a group of like-minded poets, although they share little but very broadly left-wing views.


1946 in poetry, Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:


1946 in poetry, Works published in other languages
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:


1946 in poetry, Works published in other languages, Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka. And also from the country Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:


1946 in poetry, Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:


1946 in poetry, Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:


1946 in professional wrestling
1946 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.


1946 in radio
The year 1946 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history.


1946 in rail transport
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1946.


1946 in science
The year 1946 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.


1946 in sports
1946 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. Although World War II had ended in 1945, a number of major sporting events were still precluded by planning difficulties, which the war had produced, the 1946 FIFA World Cup being perhaps the best known. However, the year is still notable as several sporting events resumed for the first time since the start of the war.


1946 in sports, Notes
Although Torino's scudetto is considered official, because Serie B teams from southern Italy played it is not usually included in statistics. This is the first of only two instances where a team other than the "Big Three" has won the Primeira Liga.


1946 in television
The year 1946 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1946. The number of television programming was increasing after World War II.


1946 in the Belgian Congo
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in the Belgian Congo.


1946 in the Philippines
1946 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in 1946.


1946 in the Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1946 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW
The 1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW was the killing that year of 79 Polish nationals of Belarusian ethnicity in the area of Bielsk County, north-eastern Poland, by partisans, members of the Polish Extraordinary Special Actions unit of the National Military Union (NZW) (Polish: Pogotowie Akcji Specjalnej Narodowego Zjednoczenia Wojskowego (PAS NZW)). These murders took place in the aftermath of World War II.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW
In January and February 1946, units of the PAS Special Forces burned down the villages of Zaleszany, Wólka Wygonowska, Zanie, Szpaki, and Końcowizna. They also executed 30 coachmen on 30 January 1945 near Puchały Stare, and a similar number of armed resistors in Zanie on 2 February 1946.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW
Since 1995, this mass killing of civilians was the subject of official investigation by the government-affiliated Institute of National Remembrance. The inquiry resulted in the publication of a final report in June 2005, summarizing this case. The Commission interviewed a total of 169 persons, and analysed all documents and testimonies dating back to the 1949 show trial of Polish cursed soldiers: Captain Romuald Rajs of the PAS Special Forces, and his co-conspirator and deputy, Lieutenant Kazimierz Chmielowski from NZW.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW
Among the individuals questioned by IPN were families of victims, as well as former soldiers of the 3rd Brigade of NZW. The IPN closed its official investigation without additional charges filed. Sentences from the Stalinist period had already been carried out. In addition, there had been extrajudicial killings of partisans by governmental authorities during the Polish anti-Communist insurrection. No living perpetrators of the atrocities committed in early 1946 have been identified. These postwar atrocities have continued to receive considerable press coverage by the media.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Background
In November 1944 National Military Union (Narodowe Zjednoczenie Wojskowe, NZW) was formed out of the National Armed Forces (NSZ) and a portion of the National Military Organization (NOW) which left the largest Polish anti-Nazi organization, the Home Army. The Home Army was disbanded entirely by the order of Gen. Leopold Okulicki on 18 January 1945, due to the Soviet takeover of Poland. Thousands of partisans and underground soldiers were arrested by the NKVD and sent to the Soviet Gulag. Okulicki was murdered in Moscow.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Background
The annexation of eastern half of the Second Polish Republic by Joseph Stalin was ratified by the new communist authorities in postwar Poland on 16 August 1945, which was followed by mass expulsions of Poles and Belarusians across the new borders.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Background
Mayor Zygmunt Szendzielarz refused to surrender; and recreated the already disassembled Polish 5th Wilno Brigade of Home Army in order to oppose the Soviet occupation of Podlachia (Podlasie) and the Białystok region. Equipped with machine guns and machine pistols, his brigade fought a successful battle with the advancing Red Army and the pro-Soviet Polish People's Army around Miodusy-Dworaki village in Siemiatycze County on 18 August 1945.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Background
Captain Rajs ("Bury") was active in the area of Wilno during the German occupation of Poland. Since 1943, he led the 1st Company of the 3rd Wilno Brigade of Home Army with the rank of Second Lieutenant. After the dissolution of the 5th Brigade, Rajs made contact with Commandant of the National Military Union Okręg III Białystok, Major Jan Szklarek, and moved his LWP platoon under his command. He was promoted to the rank of Captain and became leader of the PAS Special Forces (Pogotowie Akcji Specjalnej) within NZW Białystok. The process of unification of smaller underground units in the area of Wysokie Mazowieckie County, commanded by Kazimierz Chmielowski ("Rekin"; meaning "Shark", in Polish) until December 1945, resulted in the gathering of the largest anti-Soviet partisan group in the region.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Assaults of January and February 1946
By the end of 1945, the NZW III Białystok consolidated most of the local anti-communist underground by absorbing into its own command scattered units of NSZ and NOW. Many former members of resistance left the forest to begin a new life, although for some the return to civilian life was not possible. Both MO and the NKVD had compiled hit lists of anti-communist conspirators from local sources.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Assaults of January and February 1946
By early 1946, the NZW was the only underground organization still capable of active resistance. Their assaults included destruction of MO outposts and Communist Party bureaus, ambushes on special units of UBP, KBW, WP and NKWD; as well as various retaliatory actions. A few local towns were taken over by PAS NZW temporarily. Some police stations were destroyed repeatedly.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Assaults of January and February 1946
In early January 1946, NZW headquarters called a meeting of local commanders. Rajs was given leadership of partisans enrolled by Chmielowski ("Rekin"). His unit, consisting of 228 soldiers, was renamed as the 3rd Wilno Brigade of the NZW PAS. A decision was made to move the entire force to an area around Bielsk Podlaski for further military training.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Assaults of January and February 1946, Actions in Łozice and Hajnówka
On 27 January 1946 the battalion entered Łozice village and approached a gathering of horse-drawn vehicles organized by the local authorities in need of conscripted labour. The partisans requisitioned around 40 carriages and ordered their drivers to go along. Some coachmen mistakenly believed that the uniformed soldiers have belonged to the communist forces. The battalion boarded the carriages and in the same evening rode to the County of Hajnówka. Rajs ordered the attack on Hajnówka where the Polish communist militia as well as some Red Army soldiers returning to the USSR, were stationing. The takeover of Hajnówka was unsuccessful. The farmers with horse-drawn carriages remained with the battalion throughout January as means of transportation even though several failed attempts were made by PAS NZW to replace them with new carriers.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Assaults of January and February 1946, Actions in Łozice and Hajnówka
Contrary to opinions disseminated by politicized media in today's Belarus, the single criterion used by PAS NZW in the selection of carriages was their durability and strength; it was not the alleged faith of the actual coachmen, nor their purported Belarusian roots, as revealed by research conducted by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance. The coachmen came to Łozice from about a dozen neighbouring villages because they were ordered to do so by the communist authorities attempting to transport nationalized wood to Orla village. Meanwhile, the relocation of the NZW battalion was planned well ahead.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Assaults of January and February 1946, Pacification of Zaleszczany and Wólka Wygonowska
On 29 January 1946 the battalion arrived in Zaleszany, Hajnówka County, to feed the horses. During a routine document check by the partisans, a Red Army soldier and NKVD informer, Aleksander Zielinko was identified, serving as Communist Party secretary in nearby Suchowolce. All inhabitants were ordered to report to a big house of Dymitr Sacharczuk where they were taken hostage. They were questioned on the whereabouts of suspected collaborator, and Sołtys of Zaleszany, Łukasz Demianiuk who vanished. His 16-year-old son Piotr (already a PPR member) was identified and executed together with Zielinko.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Assaults of January and February 1946, Pacification of Zaleszczany and Wólka Wygonowska
Not a single hostage was killed from the gathering at Sacharczuk's house. According to official report released in 2005 by the Institute of National Remembrance, all hostages kept in Sacharczuk's house run out to safety and survived; they were not persecuted, but the PAS NZW set a number of buildings on fire, and 16 people died in Zaleszany while attempting to hide from the soldiers. The final IPN investigation revealed that the later description of what happened there was falsified by the Stalinist functionaries.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Assaults of January and February 1946, Pacification of Zaleszczany and Wólka Wygonowska
The unit led by Rajs ("Bury") departed for the neighbouring village of Wólka Wygonowska. Some farm buildings were set ablaze for refusal to provide assistance. Two local men were shot dead while they were running away from the soldiers: Jan Zinkiewicz and Stefan Babulewicz. Many year later, Zinkiewicz's daughter rationalized that her father ran to save his farm equipment from burning, and that he was not fleeing from them.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Assaults of January and February 1946, Massacre in Puchały Stare
On the following day of 30 January 1945 the command of NZW PAS Brigade arrived in Krasna Wieś village where they arranged the exchange of horse-drawn carriers. Eye-witness Włodzimierz K. from Jagodniki later testified that they arrived in Krasna Wieś ahead of others. Most of the partisan group fell behind. The new coachmen were ordered to wait for them but instead, took their horse-drawn carriages and run away. They were chased through the forest by the platoon led by "Modrzew", caught around Puchały Stare village, arrested, taken away in two groups, and executed as traitors.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Assaults of January and February 1946, Massacre in Puchały Stare
Years later, the exhumations conducted by the authorities in Puchały on 27 April 1951 revealed that 27 farmers have been killed there and buried in two shallow graves. In 1997 the number was raised to 30. The subsequent 2005 investigation by IPN revealed – based on new evidence – that purported eye-witness of the massacre, Prokop Iwacik, lied in his postwar testimonies, because he could not have possibly been there. Officer "Modrzew" ("Larch" in English) was killed on 16 February 1946; and his true identity remains unknown.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Assaults of January and February 1946, Assault on Szpaki–Zanie
At the end of January 1946 the soldiers of the 3rd Brigade came to Zanie, Podlaskie Voivodeship, to requisition food. One of the partisans, Kazimierz Borkowski, was struck with an axe to the head by a farmer who refused to give in. Rajs, who had already received information in Hajnówka, that ethnic Belarusians who lived in Szpaki–Zanie served as Volksdeutsche under Nazi Germany, gave an order for the pacification of the two villages.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Assaults of January and February 1946, Assault on Szpaki–Zanie
During his postwar interrogations Rajs informed that the actual order of burning down Zanie, Szpaki and Końcowizna in retaliation for hostile attitude towards NZW, came from his superior Florian Lewicki nom de guerre "Lis" ("Kotwicz"), regional commandant of NZW (real name, Jan Szklarek). The NZW PAS unit consisting of three platoons of about 30 men led by "Rekin" (Chmielowski), "Wiarus", and "Bitny" (J. Boguszewski), was sent to Szpaki–Zanie on 2 February 1946. Rajs was not present. He went with his command to Końcowizna village, where no-one was killed.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Assaults of January and February 1946, Assault on Szpaki–Zanie
According to postwar interrogation of Kazimierz Chmielowski ("Rekin"), the NZW troops were fired upon by the locals in Zanie. Later report by the Special Commission from Bielsk Podlaski confirmed that a submachine gun with ammunition was found in one of the burned out buildings. A dozen farmhouses were set on fire and 36 men singled out for collaboration with the enemy were executed by the platoon led by "Rekin". The names of the men to be shot have been secretly obtained by the Armia Krajowa Obywatelska from Bielsk County. Subsequently, both "Wiarus" and "Bitny" (along with "Modrzew") were killed in action on 12 February 1946 in Gmina Ełk.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Assaults of January and February 1946, Assault on Szpaki–Zanie
Chmielowski ("Rekin") is said to have attacked other villages in gmina Kleszczele as well, where some farmhouses where burned. According to Rajs, Chmielowski did it on his own accord, although Chmielowski himself insisted during questioning by the communist interrogators that bullets were fired up into the air. Notably, as many as five alleged pacification actions by "Rekin" were fabricated by the UB interrogators, since the village of Mostek never existed in the Bielsk County as revealed by the IPN investigation.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Trial
On 17 November 1948, Romuald Rajs was captured in Karpacz by Urząd Bezpieczeństwa while on vacation. A month later, his co-conspirator Chmielowski was arrested on 13 December 1948. They were tried in a show trial held at the Białystok movie theatre "Ton", and charged with membership in AK and NZW aiming to overthrow the communist government of Poland, coupled with armed assaults on the Polish Army and the Red Army, the assassination of MO functionaries, attacks on the UB security outposts, the railway guard, as well as assassination of civilians during forced requisitions of property, and possession of assault weapons.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Trial
Individually, Romuald Rajs was also charged with desertion from the Polish Army. They were executed on 30 December 1949 without material evidence of alleged civilian atrocities, which were obtained by the communist authorities well over a year later, in the spring of 1951. Rajs denied his guilt of the massacres. He was executed on 30 December 1949 in the Białystok prison at the age of 36 along with Lieutenant Kazimierz Chmielowski.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Commemoration
In 1970, a memorial plate was installed in Zanie to commemorate the victims of the massacre. The burial place of most of the victims were not confirmed until the 1951 exhumations. Three more bodies were identified by the IPN pathologists in 1997. After the fall of communism, a Committee of the murdered coachmen family members was created, the victims' remains were reburied in Bielsk Podlaski.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Commemoration
Official commemoration ceremonies are being held at anniversaries of the tragedy in Zaleszczany and Bielsk Podlaski. Leaders of the Belarusian minority in Poland view the 1946 massacre as an important traumatic event in post-war history. According to Oleg Latyszonek, a Polish historian of Belarusian ancestry, the massacre led to the Belarusian minority growing more loyal to the Polish communist regime of that time. Some journalists have commented that Polish nationalists attempt to rehabilitate Romuald Rajs as a part of promotion of suppression and continuous abuse of Human Rights, by the right-wing governments, of the Kaczynski brothers.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Commemoration
In 1995, the Military Court of Warsaw nullified the 1948 death penalty given to Rajs. His family received a compensation from the Polish state. On February 2, 2012, on the anniversary of the 1946 massacre, the Polish Sejm has introduced a Day of Commemoration of the Cursed soldiers on 1 March. The families of the victims of the massacre have not received any compensations.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Commemoration
A thriller by Polish novelist, Katarzyna Bonda (pl) – who has Belarusian roots – titled Okularnik ("Specky"), part of her detective series about a fictional profiler Sasza Załuska in today's Poland, is inspired by the 1946 Massacres of villages in Podlachia. The book received considerable coverage by the media in Belarus without being translated into Belarusian.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Commemoration
In 2012, the Monument to Orthodox inhabitants of Białystok who were killed and went missing in the years 1939–1956 was erected in Białystok to commemorate Orthodox Christians of the Białystok region who perished during the anticommunist insurrection in 1946.


1946 pacification of villages by PAS NZW, Commemoration
In 2020, all victims of the massacres were canonised by the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church in a ceremony in Zaleszany, at a monastery whose hegumenia came from a family of survivors. The Divine Liturgy was attended by Archbishops Abel (Popławski), Grzegorz (Charkiewicz) and Bishop Paweł (Tokajuk).


1946 Úrvalsdeild, Overview
It was contested by 6 teams, and Fram won the championship. Fram's Valtýr Guðmundsson was the top scorer with 6 goals.


1946/47 NTFL season
The 1946/47 NTFL season was the 26th season of the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL).


1946/47 NTFL season
Waratah have won their seventh premiership title while defeating the Buffaloes in the grand final by 29 points.


1946–1947 Moyen-Congo Representative Council election
The first elections to the Representative Council of Moyen-Congo (the French colony of present-day Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville) were held between December 1946 and January 1947. A government decree, issued on 26 October 1946, had called for the holding of elections for Representative Councils in each of the territories of French Equatorial Africa.


1946–1947 Moyen-Congo Representative Council election
The Representative Councils were divided into two segments, one elected by common law citizens (first college, i.e. French citizens) and one elected by citizens of professional stature (second college, i.e. Africans who were 21 years and above, and qualified as a member of one of twelve specified categories; civil servants, notables, soldiers and veterans, heads of native collectivities, members of native courts, etc.) In Moyen-Congo, the first college had 12 seats and the second college had 18 seats.


1946–1947 Moyen-Congo Representative Council election
As of November 1946 (the time of the French National Assembly election) the second college had 23,119 registered voters (out of a population of 684,000). The Congolese member of the French National Assembly, Jean-Félix Tchicaya (also the founder of the Congolese Progressive Party), had been the sole voice from French Equatorial Africa to condemn the separate electoral college system during the debates in the National Assembly in the run-up to the elections.


1946–1947 Moyen-Congo Representative Council election
The Congolese Progressive Party (PPC) won the election, obtaining 15 of the seats. Their main rival, the socialist SFIO (led by Jacques Opangault) got nine seats.


1946–47 A.C. Torino season
During the 1946-1947 Associazione Calcio Torino competed in Serie A.


1946–47 A.C. Torino season, Summary
After winning the championship last season, the team clinched again the title with a great performance in the second part of the season with a format of sole group. Valentino Mazzola scored a massive 29 goals to help Torino reached a back-to-back championship.


1946–47 A.C. Torino season, Summary
The wounds of war were healing and football returned to a single-round system. The league, due to the immediate difficulties to find the sixteen best teams, was played with a huge tournament of twenty teams, then occupying 38 days, from September to July 1947. Torino did not make substantial changes to its team, but had strengthened the park of players. Along with the return of Romeo Menti, came the midfielder Danilo Martelli from Brescia, the back-stopper Francesco Rosetta of Novara, the goalkeeper Dante Piani, the Vercellese Guido Tieghi.


1946–47 A.C. Torino season, Summary
From the 21st round the Granata returned to the lead, gradually strengthening their position and subsequently winning the tournament, with a ten-point lead over Juventus. Torino, after a last misstep with Sampdoria (the only team in the tournament to take away three points out of four from Torino) put together a sixteen match unbeaten run, of which fourteen were victories, beginning with the derby won by Guglielmo Gabetto, to go to other successes such as the five goals against Inter and Atalanta, the six against Vicenza, Genoa and Milan. That attack ended with 104 goals scored, an average of nearly three per game, and with Valentino Mazzola Serie A top-scorer.


1946–47 A.C. Torino season, Squad
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1946–47 AHL season
The 1946–47 AHL season was the 11th season of the American Hockey League. Ten teams played 64 games each in the schedule. The Cleveland Barons won their fifth F. G. "Teddy" Oke Trophy as West Division champions. The Hershey Bears won their first Calder Cup.


1946–47 AHL season, Final standings
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points;


1946–47 AHL season, Scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes


1946–47 Aberdeen F.C. season
The 1946–47 season was Aberdeen's 35th season in the top flight of Scottish football and their 37th season overall. Aberdeen competed in the Scottish League Division One, Scottish League Cup, and the Scottish Cup.


1946–47 Allsvenskan, Overview
The league was contested by 12 teams, with IFK Norrköping winning the championship.


1946–47 Allsvenskan (men's handball)
The 1946–47 Allsvenskan was the 13th season of the top division of Swedish handball. 10 teams competed in the league. Redbergslids IK won the league, but the title of Swedish Champions was awarded to the winner of Svenska mästerskapet. SoIK Hellas and IK Göta were relegated.


1946–47 Arsenal F.C. season
In 1946 the Football League in the United Kingdom fully resumed on a national basis following the disruption caused by World War II. In the club's first post-war First Division match, on 31 August 1946; Arsenal lost 6–1 to Wolves, their biggest League defeat in nearly twenty years. Although the Gunners had been the dominant force in English football in the 1930s, they struggled in their first season after the war, only finishing 13th.


1946–47 Arsenal F.C. season, Players
Players returning after the break included Cliff Bastin, Bryn Jones, Reg Lewis, Jimmy Logie, George Male, David Nelson and Laurie Scott. George Swindin established himself as Arsenal's undisputed No. 1, a position he would hold for the next six seasons. The squad included brothers Leslie Compton and Denis Compton both of whom also played Cricket for Middlesex. Ian McPherson made his Arsenal debut in the opening match against Wolves. He played 40 times that season on the right wing.


1946–47 Arsenal F.C. season, Players
Dr. Kevin O'Flanagan made 14 First Division appearances and scored three goals. He made his first-class league debut against Blackburn Rovers on 4 September and his last appearance for the senior team came on 28 December 1946 against Wolves. Bernard Joy played the first half of the 1946–47 season before deciding that his age (35) was counting against him; he retired from top-flight football in December 1946. George Curtis played 12 times in the 1946–47 season, but was sold to Southampton in part-exchange for Don Roper in summer 1947.


1946–47 Arsenal F.C. season, Players
Joe Mercer made his Arsenal debut against Bolton Wanderers on 30 November 1946 and soon after became club captain. Everton boss Theo Kelly had brought Mercer's boots to the transfer negotiations to prevent Mercer having a reason to go back to say goodbye to the other players at Everton. His transfer fee was set at £9,000 (2015: £337,000).


1946–47 Arsenal F.C. season, Players
Arsenal were unsuccessful in their attempts to land Archie Macaulay, who signed with Brentford F.C. in October 1946.


1946–47 Arsenal F.C. season, Players
Despite being nearly 35 and having never played in the top flight, Ronnie Rooke was signed by Arsenal (Cyril Grant going in the other direction). The move was surprising, but Rooke immediately made an impact, scoring the winner on his debut against Charlton Athletic on 14 December. He scored 21 goals in just 24 League matches that season.


1946–47 Arsenal F.C. season, Matches
On 21 September 63,000 attended Highbury to see Arsenal beaten by Derby County. Czech Champions, AC Sparta opened their tour of Britain with a 2–2 draw against Arsenal on 2 October with Albert Guðmundsson, later Iceland's Minister of Finance, playing inside forward for The Gunners.


1946–47 Arsenal F.C. season, Matches
Despite leading at half time, Arsenal lost to Sheffield United in early November. Six changes were made for the match against Preston North End the following week: Walley Barnes replaced Joy at left back. With Jones still injured, Lewis was moved  to inside forward and Cyril Grant made his Arsenal debut as centre forward. However, the poor form continued and Arsenal lost 2–0.


1946–47 Arsenal F.C. season, Matches
Each November between 1930 and 1962, Racing Club de Paris hosted a prestige game with Arsenal. In 1946 The London club were beaten 2–1 at Colombes Stadium. In mid November they beat Oxford University 6–0 with goals by Doug Farquhar, Morgan (2) and Whalley (3).


1946–47 Ashes series
The 1946–47 Ashes series consisted of five cricket Test matches, each of six days with five hours play each day and eight ball overs. Unlike pre-war Tests in Australia, matches were not timeless and played to a finish. It formed part of the MCC tour of Australia in 1946–47 and England played its matches outside the Tests in the name of the Marylebone Cricket Club.


1946–47 Ashes series
The England team was led by the veteran Wally Hammond and his vice-captain Norman Yardley with the strong batting line up of Len Hutton, Cyril Washbrook, Bill Edrich, Denis Compton and Joe Hardstaff, but a weak bowling attack that relied on pre-war bowlers like the 37-year-old Bill Voce of Bodyline fame and the mercurial leg-spinner Doug Wright. The two successes of the tour were the newly capped Alec Bedser, who would carry the England bowling attack until 1955, and Godfrey Evans who would be England's first choice wicketkeeper until 1959.


1946–47 Ashes series
England had drawn the Victory Tests 2–2 in 1945 and were thought to be equal in strength, but Hammond lost 3–0 to Don Bradman's Australian team which had only two other pre-war players – Lindsay Hassett and Sid Barnes, who had played 5 Tests between them – and was packed with fresh talent in the shape of Arthur Morris, Keith Miller, Ray Lindwall, Colin McCool, Ernie Toshack and Don Tallon. There were several controversial umpiring decisions which assumed greater significance as they favoured Australia and in particular Don Bradman.


1946–47 Ashes series
"Few seasons have created so much advance interest as 1946–47", a tour had been planned for 1940–41, but this was cancelled due to the Second World War. The Australian Board of Control asked for a rapid resumption of Test cricket to revive the sport in Australia, which had not hosted a Test match since 1937. Their case was made in person by the Attorney-General of Australia Dr. H.V. Evatt and the Marylebone Cricket Club reluctantly agreed as it wanted to re-establish cricketing relations and needed money to rebuild cricket in post-war Britain.


1946–47 Ashes series
The MCC asked Hammond to lead a "Goodwill Tour" and he was told that good sportsmanship was more important than winning the series, which could be seriously contested later in the 1948 Ashes series. As a result, he looked on the tour as an extended holiday, a view not shared by Don Bradman, who was determined to win, and this led to a strained relationship between the two captains. The tour itself was a great success as crowds flocked to see the matches – more than in any series in Australia since – and it made a record £50,000 profit for the MCC.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Preliminaries
Cause of the dead Brisbane wicket when Australia batted was the drought which had been suffered in Queensland for such a long period...People who were praying for water were among those to give the tourists a tremendous Brisbane welcome. Rain had fallen in every match in which the Englishmen had played and the record was maintained until the end of the tour, and the Test storm at Brisbane, the second of the match, was the worst I have ever witnessed.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Preliminaries
Due to the war this was the first Test to be played in Australia since 3 March 1937 and there were eight Australian debutants; Ian Johnson, Ray Lindwall, Colin McCool, Keith Miller, Arthur Morris, Don Tallon, Ernie Toshack and George Tribe. However, Johnson, Lindwall, McCool, Miller, Tallon and Toshack had played in an Australia vs New Zealand match the previous season which was belatedly recognised as a Test, the only game between the two countries treated as such before 1973.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Preliminaries
As a result, only Morris and Tribe are now seen as debutants with vice-captain Lindsay Hassett having played only four Tests before the war and Sid Barnes one. Don Bradman made himself available for selection at the last moment against the advice of his doctor due to the severe attack of fibrositis during the war, an ailment from which the England captain Wally Hammond also suffered.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Preliminaries
There were no English debutants; Hammond, Len Hutton, Cyril Washbrook, Bill Edrich, Denis Compton, Paul Gibb, Bill Voce and Doug Wright were all pre-war players, vice-captain Norman Yardley had played one Test before the war and Alec Bedser and Jack Ikin had debuted against India in 1946. The vaunted England batting line up had done well so far on the tour, with Hutton making 522 runs (87.00), Washbrook 461 runs (51.22), Edrich 221 runs (44.20), Compton 423 runs (60.43) and Hammond 277 runs (55.40), but their bowling had been weakened by injuries.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Preliminaries
Gibbs was preferred as wicketkeeper over Godfrey Evans because of his batting form in South Africa in 1938–39. There had been a drought in Queensland since 1941 and the curator had tried boring for water without success. The Woolloongabba wicket, traditionally green and helpful to fast bowlers, was a dry, lifeless brown and good for runs. Bradman won the toss and had no difficulty in choosing to bat first.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Australia – First Innings
Bradman had only made 28, when he played Bill Voce into the slips. Jack Ikin caught the ball and threw it high in the air in joy. He had caught the great Bradman, and Australia, he thought, were three down for under a hundred on a good wicket. That was how it looked to Ikin, to some of the other English players and some of the crowd, and that was how it looked to me sitting watching from the dressing room. Bradman, however, thought it was a bump ball and he stayed, as he was fully entitled to do if there was any doubt in his mind... the umpire gave him not out and he went on to make 187 of Australia's total of 645.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Australia – First Innings
The innings began well for England as Wally Hammond caught Arthur Morris in the slips and Alec Bedser had Don Bradman struggling in his third over, the Australian captain twice edging the ball to the close fielders. He was protected by Sid Barnes who controlled the strike and hooked the England bowlers until "Big Al" jumped up like a goalkeeper, knocked up the ball and took the catch on the rebound. Barnes (31) was officially reprimanded for using the hook and eliminated this stroke from his repertoire for the rest of the series.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Australia – First Innings
At 72/2 Bradman was still struggling on 28 after an hour at the crease when he gave his famous catch to Jack Ikin off Bill Voce. The England players were so sure it was out (along with half the Australian team in the dressing room) that they did not immediately appeal and did so only after Bradman refused to walk.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Australia – First Innings
In a controversial umpiring decision Umpire Borwick gave him not out and Bradman later said he thought he had jammed the ball into the ground before it went to Ikin and that he was willing to let the umpire be the judge. Hammond was furious at what he saw as gamesmanship that only spoke to the Australian captain when calling the toss for the rest of the series. After this incident Bradman recovered his confidence and with Bedser off the field due to a stomach ailment (a legacy of his service in Italy) made 159 runs in 160 minutes.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Australia – First Innings
His vice-captain Lindsay Hassett dug himself in for 128 and they added 274 for the third wicket. Hassett's brother was getting married that day and agreed to wait until he was out before they began the service. They gave up when he was 97 and he was still on 98 when they finished. Bradman was bowled by Bill Edrich (3/107) early on the second day and Hassett added another 106 runs with his fellow-Victorian Keith Miller who hit 6 fours and a six in his 79.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Australia – First Innings
Hassett also hit a six, but was dropped three times before he was caught by Norman Yardley off Bedser (2/159). The English leg-spinner Doug Wright (5/167) had Miller lbw, but the wicketkeeper Paul Gibb dropped Colin McCool off Bedser for 1 and McCool (95) and Ian Johnson (47) took the score to 595/5 by the end of the second day. Most of the third day was lost to heavy rain and bad light. When play resumed it was thought that Australia would declare, but Bradman gave 'a crooked little smile...


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Australia – First Innings
"I remember when England made 900 against us and kept us in the field for three days"' and 10 minutes before play he told Hammond that he was going to bat on. "Bradman adopted his grim Napoleonic pose, as if the fate of his country rested on the retention of 'the Ashes'" and as the batting captain told the ground staff not to cut the grass on the pitch and had a three-ton roller pulled over the wicket to draw up the moisture.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Australia – First Innings
Australia would not be batting for long and this increased the pace of the wicket for his fast bowlers, but a former Australian player called it "kicking a beaten opponent when he is down". The last 5 Australian wickets fell for 50 runs, mostly from Ray Lindwall who hit 3 fours and 2 sixes in his 31. Australia's 645 was their highest total at home, overtaking the 604 made in their previous home Test at Melbourne in 1936–37.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, England – First Innings
... hailstones fell the size of golf-balls, and the trim field was swiftly reduced to a lake whereon floated the stumps. What was equally extraordinary was the strength of the tropical Queensland sun which next morning sucked away the moisture, so against all prediction, and thanks also to the sandy soil perfect for drainage, play was possible sharp at time. I recall broadcasting home from the ground... describing the scene of desolation with part of the playing arena still under a foot of water... English listeners who had gone to bed with this comforting information had to be told when they woke up next morning that fifteen English wickets had fallen and the game was over.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, England – First Innings
Len Hutton and Cyril Washbrook went out to bat with thunder in the air and Hutton never settled down to the short-pitched bowling of Lindwall and Miller and was bowled for 7 in "a real shock attack...Miller's success was gained by one ball of perfection mixed with many of faulty direction which had England's record holder twisting and turning in a most unbatsmanlike fashion". Soon after Bill Edrich came out play was stopped for bad light as a thunderstorm broke over the ground. Play resumed only 10 minutes late the next day, but "England were twice caught on sticky wickets.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, England – First Innings
They stood no chance. On a typical Brisbane sticky the good length ball and the half-volley became almost unplayable. Sometimes it rose chest high. At others it skidded along the ground." In their "opening blitz" Keith Miller dug the ball in short and "nearly every ball from Lindwall rose head high". "Edrich batted for 105 minutes. He suffered more than 40 body blows with a nonchalant contempt for danger and seemed content to be battered black and blue rather than lose his wicket.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, England – First Innings
It was grim concentration and unflinching courage of the type rarely seen in Australia, and he was undaunted even after a terrific sickener under the ribs from Miller". He was out for 16, but Alan Kippax said it was "one of the best knocks he had ever witnessed" and worthy of a century.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, England – First Innings
Wally Hammond had made his finest innings just such a wicket at Melbourne in 1936–37 while making 32 and here made the same number of runs, which Arthur Morris called it "the most thorough batting lesson he had ever received" Ray Lindwall wrote that Hammond and Edrich "were hit on the body repeatedly. Their concentration never faltered and their skill never waned... This was vintage batting of a kind that probably no Australian could produce".


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, England – First Innings
Miller used a limited leg-trap and an English pressman wrote that this was Bodyline, to the anger of Vic Richardson, Alan Kippax and Clarrie Grimmett who had seen the real thing. Miller slowed his pace as the ball leapt so much that it could hit the batsman, but not get them out and dismissed all five batsman that day, his 7/60 in the innings remaining his best return for Australia for the rest of his career.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, England – First Innings
Only three hours play were allowed that day and just after Hammond and Yardley walked off after appealing for light a second thunderstorm hit Brisbane. "Those who huddled in the pavilion...will never forget (as will the residents of Brisbane, who lost thousands of planes of glass) the darkness that came over the ground and the roar of the storm coming in the distance. This was the day when jagged pieces of hail, as big as cricket balls, plummeted on the ground, and the covers and the stumps went swirling away in the flood".


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, England – First Innings
In 30 minutes the ground was a lake with the water almost reaching the height of the picket fence on the boundary. At any other venue the game would have ended, but the drought-stricken ground soaked up most of the water overnight, the Queensland sun soon dried out the ground and play began on time at noon, much to the surprise to some pressmen and players who arrived late. Ernie Toshack's left-arm medium pace should have won him a hatful of wickets the previous day, but he could not bowl as Bradman suggested.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, England – First Innings
So, before play began Bradman took him down the pitch and showed him exactly where he wanted him to bowl and even make him bowl a practice over alongside to make sure he got it right. Resuming on 117/5 Hammond and Yardley were both out to Toshack (3/17), the Yorkshire vice-captain after a gritty innings of 29 over two hours, and Miller wrapped up the tail to have England out for 141.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, England – Second Innings
Bradman made England follow on 504 runs behind, Hutton was caught by Sid Barnes off Miller's first ball, Washbrook was out the same way and Ernie Toshack had Edrich lbw to leave them 32/3. Only Denis Compton (15) stayed in for over an hour and eight batsmen got into double figures. Wally Hammond hit Toshack for two sixes and played so well on the sticky pitch that the Australians thought he was "bound to make many runs in the series, but from that moment nothing went right for him".


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, England – Second Innings
Under Bradman's guidance Toshack took 6/82, Miller missed out on a 10 wicket haul with 2/17 and George Tribe took his best Test figures of 2/48. Ray Lindwall was taken to hospital  with suspected malaria from his service in the Soloman Islands, but was found to be chickenpox which caused more concern as he may have infected the rest of the team. Lindwall was replaced by twelfth man Ken Meuleman, Colin McCool bowled only one over in the match and Ian Johnson was not used at all. The only real stand was that of 47 between Jack Ikin (32) and Paul Gibb (11) as England were out for 172 having lost 15 wickets in 3+1⁄2 hours.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Result
The First Test at Brisbane taught the Englishmen many things and on the second day one English player summed up those thoughts. He said to me – "We are the first Ambassadors ever embroiled in a war while on a goodwill mission." And war it was, even though it was waged on only one side.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Result
Australia won the First Test by an innings and 332 runs to take a 1–0 lead in the series. It was their first victory over England at Brisbane and was their largest victory in Tests, overtaking their previous best of an innings and 200 runs in the Fifth Test at Melbourne in 1936–37, their last match against England in Australia. This remained a record until Australia beat South Africa by an innings and 360 runs at Johannesburg in 2001–02, but it remains their greatest victory in Australia and against England.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Result
Ironically in their previous Test against England in 1938 Australia lost by an innings and 579 runs, the largest margin of victory in Tests. It was the first time that two sides had won and lost by an innings in successive Tests. Australia's 645 was their highest total at home, beating the 604 they made in the Fifth Test of 1936–37. The win was regarded as a lottery as torrential rain ruined the wicket as England started to bat, but in Brisbane it was ever thus.


1946–47 Ashes series, First Test – Brisbane, Result
On Bradman's Test debut in 1928–29 Australia was caught batting after a rainstorm and were out for 66. They lost by a record 675 runs and Bradman was dropped for the only time in his career. In 1936–37 Australia was caught again on a rain-affected wicket and were out for 58, Bradman made a duck and lost his first Test as captain by 322 runs. In the next Test between Australia and England at the Gabba in 1950–51 20 wickets fell in an afternoon after another rainstorm. 77,344 attended the match with receipts of £14,515.


1946–47 Ashes series, Second Test – Sydney, Preliminaries
From the batsman's viewpoint it looked perfect. It was a rusty brown, but seemed to hold a thousand runs, and both Hammond and Bradman were enthusiastic in their keenness to win the toss. When the England skipper called correctly he smiled with confident pleasure.... Imagine Hammond's surprise when before an hour had passed the wicket, which looked so docile, was in fact a dangerous spin-taking nightmare.


1946–47 Ashes series, Second Test – Sydney, Preliminaries
Arriving in Sydney England tried to put the disastrous Brisbane Test behind them. The wicketkeeper-batsman Paul Gibb was dropped in favour of Godfrey Evans, who was to hold the position for 13 years and who did not concede a bye in the Test. Bill Voce had pulled a muscle and the off-spinner Peter Smith was brought into the team for the traditional spinning wicket at the SCG, but already had a numb spinning finger from an injury on the ship that brought the team to Australia. Ray Lindwall was still ill with chickenpox and was replaced by the tidy fast-medium bowler Fred Freer of Victoria. The pitch looked perfect, Wally Hammond called correctly and chose to bat.


1946–47 Ashes series, Second Test – Sydney, England – First Innings
The game was all but decided in an evil hour Hutton, Compton and Hammond himself – the flower of England's batting – went one by one to the high, slow, teasing spin of Colin McCool and Ian Johnson, each giving the ball more and more air as though trying to discover whether there was any parabola they could not describe without impelling the forward step that would have allowed the ball to be met on the full-pitch or the half-volley.


1946–47 Ashes series, Second Test – Sydney, England – First Innings
Fred Freer (1/25) began his Test career by bowling Cyril Washbrook for 1, but though he kept his line and length Keith Miller was wild and they and Toshack only bowled 23 overs in the innings. The spinners bowled 73 overs as the pitch took spin on the first day, against all expectation. Len Hutton (30) and Bill Edrich (71) added 78 for the second wicket before Ian Johnson removed him with his third ball in Tests, caught behind down the leg side.


1946–47 Ashes series, Second Test – Sydney, England – First Innings
Don Tallon promptly took two more catches off Colin McCool (3/73) to dismiss Hammond and Compton and England were 99/4. Bradman had pulled a thigh muscle in the First Test and was granted permission by Hammond to retire from play, Ken Meuleman taking his place and Hassett taking command. Johnson had not bowled in the First Test, but now had a spell of 11–8–3–1 as the England batsmen remained glued to the wicket.


1946–47 Ashes series, Second Test – Sydney, England – First Innings
Hammond had previously told Compton to stop 'capering about' the wicket and "The oracle was listened to with great respect, and his dictum was largely taken up by those who followed him in the England XIs". Jack Ikin, whose usually played within the crease anyway made a gritty 60 and added 49 with the fighting Edrich. Thereafter wickets fell steadily to Johnson who ended with 6/42 as England was spun out for 255.


1946–47 Ashes series, Second Test – Sydney, Australia – First Innings
We could have played on, but it was a Test match and we just had to win. I realised something drastic had to be done or three wickets might be lost. So I appealed after every second ball. I complained of the people moving about, the light, and, in fact, anything, in an effort to get the appeal upheld. Hammond and Yardley were inspecting the wet pitch. I knew there was a chance of losing valuable wickets so I just kept on appealing until the umpires answered me.


1946–47 Ashes series, Second Test – Sydney, Australia – First Innings
The situation was not yet lost, England had at least played on the spinning wicket first and it could only get worse for Australia. Doug Wright was the terror of the County Championship for running through side on just such wickets and Hammond also had Peter Smith and the part-time spin of Ikin, Compton and Hutton. Sid Barnes and Arthur Morris only batted for 9 minutes when the rain came down and the teams left the field. On their return Bill Edrich (3/71) made the ball kick up with his fast bowling, and Morris was bowled while taking evasive action.


1946–47 Ashes series, Second Test – Sydney, Australia – First Innings
Ian Johnson  came in as a nightwatchman and he and Barnes angered the crowd by launching into a series of bad light appeals – up to 12 were counted – before the umpires gave way and play was ended with an hour to spare. This gamesmanship ensured that Australia would not have to play on a sticky wicket like England at Brisbane and allowed Bradman to rest his leg until play resumed on the Monday.


1946–47 Ashes series, Second Test – Sydney, Australia – First Innings
Clif Cary opined in his radio commentary that the light was bright enough to play by and the umpires had been pressured into a decision by the Australian batsmen, as did the English pressmen. They were labelled "biased, unsportsmanlike squealers" and that Barnes and his captain Bradman would never use such underhand tactics, but at the end of the series Barnes admitted on radio that he had bluffed the umpires into the decision. Sunday was a rest day and the sun dried out the wicket beautifully, it rolled to perfection and produced the flat wicket anticipated on the first day.


1946–47 Ashes series, Second Test – Sydney, Australia – First Innings
Barnes had been reprimanded for hooking the ball in the First Test and as a result denied himself strokeplay and slowly ground his way through the day. Johnson was out for 7, and Barnes added 59 with Lindsay Hassett (34) and 63 with Keith Miller (40). Alec Bedser (1/153)  bowled well and stopped the runs from getting away, but with defensive fields many catches went begging, but Peter Smith (2/172) failed to find his form (he was hospitalised with appendicitis on the tour).