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| Jan 10: United Nations meets for the first time in London 31: Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes 6 constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia). |
Feb 1: The Kingdom of Hungary becomes a republic. 14: The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), an early general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the Univ. of Pennsylvania; it weighs 60,000 pounds (over 27 tons). 15: Canada announces a ring of Canadian communist spies based at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, were passing atomic bomb secrets to Russia. After defecting, Igor Gouzenko revealed the operation. |
Mar 6: Ho Chí Minh signs an agreement with France, which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. |
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Sept The Gouzenko Affair |
| Oct 1: Nuremberg trials, which began on Nov 20 in 1945, end. 16: Hermann Göring commits suicide; 11 other war criminals hanged |
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Dec 19: After the French Navy bombs Haiphong, Ho Chí Minh declared war against the French Union, marking the beginning of the Indochina War. |
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