Bikinis and Tupperware! The year? 1946!!!!

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January

• January 6 – A revised and streamlined revival of Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat opens on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre.
• January 10
• The first meeting of the United Nations is held in London.
• Project Diana bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the earth and the moon, and proving that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the space age.
• January 17
• The UN Security Council holds its first session.
• January 29 – The Central Intelligence Group is established (the CIA in 1947).

 February

• February 14
• ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), an early general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.

March

• March 2Ho Chi Minh is elected President of North Vietnam.

April

• April 1A 14-meter high tsunami strikes Hilo and Laupāhoehoe on the Big Island of Hawaii; 173 are killed, thousands injured.
• April 10 – In Japan, women vote for the first time, during elections for the House of Representatives of the 90th Imperial Diet.
• April 18The League of Nations, in its last meeting, transfers its mission to the United Nations and disbands itself.

May

• May 2 – Six inmates unsuccessfully try to escape from Alcatraz Prison. A riot occurs, the so-called "Battle of Alcatraz".
• May 7 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with about 20 employees.

June

• June 6 – The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
• June 17 Laurence Olivier's Henry V opens in the United States nearly 2 years after its release in England. It is the first Shakespeare film in color, and critics hail it as the finest film of a Shakespeare play ever made.

 July

• July 1 – Nuclear testing: Operation Crossroads, a series of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in Micronesia, is initiated by detonation of Able at an altitude of 520 feet (158 m).
• July 5 – Bikinis go on sale in Paris.
• July 25
• Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.
• In the last mass lynching in the United States, a mob of white men shoot and kill two African-American couples near Moore's Ford Bridge in Georgia.

August

• August 1The Atomic Energy Commission is established.
• August 3 – Holiday World, originally called Santa Claus Land, opens to the public. It became the 1st themed park preceding Disneyland by 9 years.

 November

• November 1 – The New York Knicks play against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks win 68–66.
• November 12In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank (now part of the LaSalle Bank) opens the first 10 drive-up teller windows.
• November 19
• Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
• November 27 – Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster."

December

• December 11 – UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund) is founded.
• December 20 Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, featuring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, and Thomas Mitchell, is released in New York.
• December 26 The Flamingo Hotel opens on the Las Vegas Strip.
• December 31 – President Harry Truman delivers Proclamation 2714, which officially ends hostilities in World War II.

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• The first Tupperware is sold in department and hardware stores.
• The NFL team San Francisco 49ers is formed.