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M Muster resigns from pres; charges Communist group dominates exec bd; attacks M Perlow as group's head; certain locals, headed by G Bucher, appt com to conf with P Murray; dispute outlined
Referendum; Vote is heavy; Communist victory with 1-chamber Parliament seen; scattered violence reptd; Warsaw quiet; Vice-Premier Mikolajczyk showing is not clear
PEACE TREATY: pro-Ital mob starts riot in Trieste following news of Big 4 aim to internationalize city; Slavs mobbed; 5 US soldiers hurt as US and Brit soldiers are called in by local police in attempt to establish order; Allied forces take over city; enraged Slovenees stage battle demonstration; casualites reptd; gen strike called by workers organizations to protest riots
GOVT CONTROL: rents frozen at OPA June 30th ceilings; J D McGoldrick takes control as adm; Gov Dewey comments; State law differences from OPA curbs noted; text of freezing order
1946Mick Aston, English archaeologist and academic (died 2013)[†]
Michael Antony Aston was an English archaeologist who specialised in Early Medieval landscape archaeology. Over the course of his career, he lectured at both the University of Bristol and University of Oxford and published fifteen books on archaeological subjects. A keen populariser of the discipline, Aston was widely known for appearing as the resident academic on the Channel 4 television series Time Team from 1994 to 2011.
1946Erkki Tuomioja, Finnish sergeant and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs[†]
Erkki Sakari Tuomioja is a Finnish politician and has previously been a member of the Finnish Parliament. From 2000 to 2007 and 2011 to 2015, he served as the minister for foreign affairs. He was president of the Nordic Council in 2008.
1946Kojo Laing, Ghanaian novelist and poet (died 2017)[†]
B. Kojo Laing or Bernard Kojo Laing was a Ghanaian novelist and poet, whose writing is characterised by its hybridity, whereby he uses Ghanaian Pidgin English and vernacular languages alongside standard English. His first two novels in particular – Search Sweet Country (1986) and Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) – were praised for their linguistic originality, both books including glossaries that feature the author's neologisms as well as Ghanaian words.
1946Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.[†]
Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on July 16, 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on warships.