Editing 1946 (section)

===October===
{{Main|October 1946}}
* [[October 1]] – [[Mensa International|Mensa]], an international organization for people with a high [[intelligence quotient]] (IQ), is founded by [[Roland Berrill]], an Australian-born lawyer, and [[Lancelot Ware]], an English biochemist and lawyer, in [[Oxford]].
* [[October 2]] – Communists establish power in [[Bulgaria]].
* [[October 6]] – Sweden's Prime Minister [[Per Albin Hansson]] dies in office of a heart attack.
* [[October 10]] – The [[Noakhali genocide]] of Hindus in [[Bengal]] begins, at the hands of Muslim mobs.
* [[October 11]] – After a few days of vacancy, the Swedish premiership is taken over by [[Tage Erlander]].
* [[October 13]] – France adopts the constitution of the [[French Fourth Republic|Fourth Republic]].
* [[October 14]] – The [[International Organization for Standardization]] (ISO) is founded.
* [[October 15]] – [[Nuremberg trials]]: [[Hermann Göring]], founder of the [[Gestapo]] and recently convicted [[Nazism|Nazi]] war criminal, poisons himself two hours before his scheduled execution.
* [[October 16]]
** The remaining ten Nazi war criminals sentenced to death at the [[Nuremberg trials]] are executed by hanging, in a gymnasium in the [[Palace of Justice, Nuremberg]].
** The [[United Nations]]' first meeting in [[Long Island]] is held.
* [[October 23]] – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
* [[October 24]]–[[November 11]] – [[1946 Bihar riots]]: Hindu mobs target Muslim families in the Indian state of [[Bihar]], resulting in anywhere between 2,000 and 30,000 deaths.