Syria gets its independence from the French occupation. In June 1940, after the Franco-German armistice, the French in Syria announced that they would cease hostilities…
Tag: 1946
3 August 1946
The world’s first themed amusement park, Santa Claus Land, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, USA.
5 March 1946
Sir Winston Churchill first coins the phrase “Iron Curtain” in a lecture at Westminster College, Missouri.
26 February 1946
Observers in Finland report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
9 December 1946
The follow up Nuremberg Trials begin with the “Doctors’ Trial”, in which physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass…