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Transportation
Volvo pv60
On september 6th volvo delivered the 50,000th vehicle
Volvo built a number of prototypes
Deliveries, with were due to begin in may 1940, had to be postponed -
Fashion
they wore
Knee length A-line dresses with puffed shoulders in patriotic colors
Plaid A-line skirts with white button down blouses
Victory suits: man-tailored skirt and jackets -
News Event
19 faces of evestan plane crash victims carved into monument
The 21 men who lost their lives in a horrific plane crash near Estevan on sept
The victims, 20 pilots and one crewman, survived the Second World War and returned home only to fly directly into tragedy
About one year after the war ended, the crew was ferrying war planes between Estevan and Minot, North Dakota -
Toys
Ertl 1946 Chevy Suburban DieCast with Original Box
Vintage 1946 Pull Toy Tick Tock Toys Alligator Wooden Articulated
1946 Steel Scooter -
Music
Perry Como
Prisoner Of Love Eddy Howard
To Each His Own Frank Sinatra
Five Minutes More -
Technology
In February , the first programmable, general-purpose electronic digital computer was introduced at the University of Pennsylvania
It was called ENIAC, which stood for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer" and was built by J
Presper Eckert and John Mauchley for the U.S. Government during World War Il -
Actor or Actress
Martha stewart
martha Helen Stewart is an American retail executive business woman, writer, television personality, and former model.
As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, merchandising, and e-commerce
There was speculation that the incident would effectively end her media empire -
TV or Radio Show
The first television show to have a commercial sponsor debuts.
he Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) started issuing television licenses in 1928
The FCC began granting commercial TV licenses in May 1941. -
Sports Figure
Although World War II had ended in 1945, a number of major sporting events were still precluded by planning difficulties
which the war had produced, the 1946 FIFA World Cup being perhaps the best known
Only one team mattered in professional basketball: the Boston Celtics. -
Movie
La Belle et La Bete (1946, Fr.) (aka Beauty and the Beast)
this fanciful and enchanting story has been remade many times, both as short silent and talkie versions, and most memorably as Disney's animated film in 1991T
Writer/director/painter-poet Jean Cocteau produced this first feature film, and asked the audience as the film started: "I ask of you a little . . . childlike simplicity." -
U.S. President
Harry s. truman
May 8th 1884-december 26 1972
He was the 33rd president of the united states
He served from 1945 to 1953