What happened onApril 23, 1946Tuesday Week 17

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The World in 1946 the year the shops filled up again

ENIAC weighed about 30 tons, roughly as much as twenty family cars, and filled a room you could play basketball in. It could add five thousand numbers in a second, which no machine had ever done before.

Life back then

Car dealers had new models to sell for the first time since 1942, and buyers signed waiting lists months long. The same went for refrigerators, washing machines and tires. In Britain it went the other way, and bread went on ration in July, something that had not happened even at the worst of the war. New parents bought a cheap paperback by a doctor named Benjamin Spock, Baby and Child Care, which told them to trust their own judgement. Millions of veterans took government tuition money and enrolled in college.

The year in 8 events

• 🕊️Jan 10 The United Nations General Assembly meets for the first time, in a hall in London.
• 💻Feb 14 The ENIAC computer is shown to reporters in Philadelphia. It works out shell paths in seconds.
• 🎙️Mar 5 Winston Churchill says an iron curtain has come down across Europe, in a speech in Missouri.
• 🗳️Jun 2 Italians vote to end the monarchy and make their country a republic.
• 🌏Jul 4 The Philippines becomes independent after almost fifty years of American rule.
• 🎬Sep 20 The first Cannes Film Festival opens in the south of France.
• 🏀Nov 1 The league that becomes the NBA plays its first game, in Toronto.
• 📜Nov 3 Japan's new constitution is published. It gives up the right to go to war and leaves the emperor without power.

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