1946 - In this Ray Harryhausen stop-motion animated film, Old Mother Hubbard goes on errands for her dog and comes home to find him reading a newspaper and smoking a pipe.
1946 - In this Ray Harryhausen stop-motion animated film, Old Mother Hubbard's dog pretends to die while she's out getting bread, and only stops the joke when she comes home with a coffin.
1946 - In this Ray Harryhausen stop-motion animated film, Old Mother Hubbard goes to the cupboard to get her dog a bone and finds it is bare.
1946 - In this animated film, a chicken gets drunk and cheats on his wife after winning a fight, angering her.
1946 - In this animated film, Herman the mouse frightens of Henry the rooster's abusive wife.
1946 - In this animated film, farm animals perform "Farmer in the Dell" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
1946 - In this animated film, Old MacDonald encourages the audience to sing along with his song.
1946 - In this animated film, Little Lulu wreaks havoc in a department store by skiing down the escalator, and using a vacuum cleaner to pull fish out of a pool on the floor.
1946 - In this animated film, Little Lulu floods a department store and rows away in a canoe with her doll.
1946 - In this animated film, Little Lulu dons an Indian headdress in a department store and makes an ice rink from ice trays to skate on, frustrating the floor manager.
1946 - In this animated film, Little Lulu rides her scooter through traffic and into a department store, where she seeks to exchange her toy doll.
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1946 - Describing politics as the art of the possible and science as the art of the impossible, a scientist urges politicians to exercise their imaginations more freely in light of the atomic bomb.
CHINA AND JAPAN - 1946 - Army chief of staff General Eisenhower meets with George Marshall and Chiang Kai-Shek in China, and Generals MacArthur and Eichelberger in occupied Japan.
USA - 1946 - The newly-invented wrecking ball is used to demolish slums in New York's lower east side to make room for better housing.
KENTUCKY - 1946 - Spectators arrive at Churchill Downs to watch the Kentucky Derby on a track rated slow.
PHILIPPINES - 1946 - Manuel Roxas is elected president of the Philippines.
1946 - Walter Pidgeon reads a statement on behalf of the Screen Actors Guild explaining the need for arbitration in an AFL dispute with Hollywood, with other actors including Ronald Reagan present.
1946 - The NYPD's Police Athletic League provides free activities such as sports and arts and crafts to keep kids and teens off the streets.
1946 - A bust of Booker T. Washington is unveiled at NYU's hall of fame, making him the first African-American honored there.
1946 - American soldiers and newsreel cameramen visit a remote area of Panama to see indigenous people harvest bananas.
1946 - A sheep shearing contest is held in Colorado.
1946 - Aftermath of a deadly plane crash into a New York City skyscraper.
1946 - Thousands of sheep cross the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington.
1946 - Manuel Roxas is elected president of the Philippines.
1946 - King Abdullah I is on hand for the ceremony where Britain grants Jordan its independence.
1946 - President Peron is inaugurated in Buenos Aires, then reviews the troops.
1946 - US Navy rockets are launched at testing sites.
1946 - Canadian goods for UNRRA are loaded onto ships.
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1946 - A chemist hands a tube of plutonium to General Groves, overseer of the Manhattan Project.
1946 - Paul Tibbets, who flew the Enola Gay and bombed Hiroshima, is brought to Bikini Atoll to perform more atomic bomb tests.
1946 - European civilians and servicemen pay their respects at American Military Cemeteries in England, France and Belgium on the second anniversary of D-Day.
1946 - Karl Hermann Frank, the Gestapo officer responsible for the genocide of Lidice in Czechoslovakia, is sentenced to death for his war crimes.
1946 - Film studio laborers go on strike, and movie stars fly to Chicago to address the AFL on the matter.
1946 - Britain's Prime Minister Attlee controversially wants to consider giving independence to India and Egypt, and meets with Indian leaders including Kalam Azad and Jawaharlal Nehru.
LOS ANGELES - 1946 - Street scenes of Los Angeles at night pass movie theaters and other businesses.
1946 - In a banquet speech, a scientist contrasts politics and science.
1946 - The wartime invention of DDT is sprayed in Texas to stop the spread of infantile paralysis.
1946 - Boxers Joe Louis and Billy Conn get physicals and sign contracts for the first heavyweight championship bout since the war.
1946 - Herbert Hoover meets with President Truman after traveling postwar Europe to assess needs related to food shortage.
1946 - Tourists enjoy a boat tour of Georgia's Okefenokee swamp.
1946 - Milk is delivered and checked in the receiving room, then poured into the receiving vat if it passes the operators inspection.
1946 - Georges Bidault, Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Molotov, and James Byrnes meet at the Luxembourg Palace in Paris for a Council of Foreign Ministers.
1946 - People ride trolleys and bicycles through intersections destroyed by the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
1946 - Indigenous people of Panama harvest bananas and load them into canoes to take to market.
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1946 - A woman working at the US Children's Bureau opens filing cabinet drawers on adoption statistics and institutions for dependent children.
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1946 - A woman reads pamphlets about adoption from the US Children's Bureau.
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1946 - A woman takes notes on statistics of foster care for the US Children's Bureau.
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1946 - A physicist sprinkles some humor into a speech about atomic power.