Editing 1946

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== Events ==
* January 11 - [[Enver Hoxha]] declares the formation of the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister.
* February 22 to May 3 - The Texarkana Moonlight Murders: five people are [[murder]]ed and three are injured by an unidentified serial killer known as the [[Phantom Killer]] in Texarkana, Texas over a span of three-and-a-half months.
* March 2 - [[Ho Chi Minh]] is elected President of North Vietnam.
* March 15 - The [[NKVD]] is dissolved. The [[MVD]] is subsequently established as the new [[secret police]] of the Soviet Union.
* April 5 - The [[Democrat Party (Thailand)|Democrat Party]] is founded.
* April 21 - The [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]] is founded via a merger of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the [[Communist Party of Germany]] (KPD).
* May 4 - [[SMERSH]] is dissolved.
* May 11 - The [[United Malays National Organisation]] is founded. 
* June 4 - [[Juan Peron]] is elected President of Argentina for the first time.
* July 22 - King David Hotel bombing: the [[Irgun]] bombs the King David Hotel (headquarters of the British civil and military administration) in Jerusalem, killing 90.
* July 25 - In the last mass [[lynching]] in the United States, a mob of [[White Supremacy|white supremacist]]s shoot and kill two African-American couples, near Moore's Ford Bridge in Georgia.
* September 13 - [[Amon Göth]] is hanged by the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland after being found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated in Poland during [[the Holocaust]].
* September 30 to October 1 - Ten high-ranking members of the [[Nazi Party]] are hanged at Nuremberg by the International Military Tribunal for [[war crimes]] and [[crimes against humanity]] committed during [[World War II]].
* October 10 to November 9 - The [[Noakhali riots]] take place in Bengal: the [[Muslim National Guard]] kill Hindus in Bengal en masse, leaving an estimated 5000 people dead.
* October 31 - The British Embassy at Porta Pia in Rome is bombed by [[Irgun]]. No one is harmed.
* December 19 - Beginning of the First Indochina War.
* Unknown - The [[School of the Americas]] is established by the United States Army.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* January 3 - [[Phillip Carl Jablonski]]
* January 8 - [[Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo]]
* January 14 - [[Harold Shipman]]
* January 23 - [[Arnoldo Alemán]]
* February 4 - [[Isaias Afewerki]]
* March 18 - [[José González]]
* March 21 - [[Kenneth McDuff]]
* April - [[Pauline Nyiramasuhuko]]
* April 10 - [[Nebojša Pavković]]
* May 20 - [[Larry Loveless]]
* June 2 - [[Peter Sutcliffe]]
* June 7 - [[Robert Tilton]]
* July 15 - [[Hassanal Bolkiah]]
* August 16 - [[Masoud Barzani]]
* August 22- [[Marcus Wesson]]
* August 27 - [[Peter Tobin]]
* August 29 - [[Jean-Baptiste Bagaza]]
* September 2 - [[Dan White]]
* October 1 - [[John Brennan Crutchley]]
* November 24 - [[Ted Bundy]]
* November 25 - [[Richard Cottingham]]
* Unknown - [[Wenche Behring]]
* Unknown - [[Louis Beam]]
* Unknown - [[Albert Walker]]
* Unknown - [[Thomas Robb]]

=== Victim births ===
* January 22 - Jang Song-thaek
* March 13 - Yonatan Netanyahu
* March 29 - Leona Caires
* June 18 - Frank "Bruiser Brody" Goodish
* December 2 - Gianni Versace 
* December 18 - Steve Biko

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* January 3 - [[William Joyce]]
* January 8 - [[Harold Cole]]
* February 3 - [[Friedrich Jeckeln]]
* February 23 - [[Tomoyuki Yamashita]]
* February 28 - [[Béla Imrédy]]
* March 14 - [[Werner von Blomberg]] & [[Alfons Klein]]
* March 29 - [[László Baky]] & [[László Endre]]
* April 3 - [[Masaharu Homma]]
* April 11 - [[Andor Jaross]]
* May 16 - [[Bruno Tesch]]
* June 1 - [[Ion Antonescu]]
* July 17 - [[Draža Mihailović]]
* July 21 - [[Arthur Greiser]]
* August 20 - [[Vojtech Tuka]]
* August 22 - [[Döme Sztójay]]
* September 13 - [[Amon Göth]]
* October 15 - [[Hermann Göring]]
* October 16 - [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]], [[Hans Frank]], [[Wilhelm Frick]], [[Wilhelm Keitel]], [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]], [[Alfred Rosenberg]], [[Fritz Sauckel]], [[Arthur Seyss-Inquart]], [[Julius Streicher]] and [[Alfred Jodl]]
* October 24 - [[Kurt Daluege]]
* October 26 - [[Otto Georg Thierack]]
* December 21 - [[Eugene Talmadge]]

=== Victim deaths ===