Editing 1946 (section)

===December===
{{Main|December 1946}}
* [[December 1]] – [[Miguel Alemán Valdés]] takes office as [[President of Mexico]].
* [[December 2]] – The [[International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling]] is signed in Washington, D.C., to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry" through establishment of the [[International Whaling Commission]].
* [[December 7]] – The [[Winecoff Hotel fire]] in [[Atlanta]], United States, kills 119.
* [[December 10]] – [[John Peters Humphrey]] becomes director of the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]
* [[December 11]] – [[UNICEF]] (the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) is founded.
* [[December 12]]
** The [[United Nations]] severs relations with [[Francoist Spain]] and recommends that member countries sever diplomatic relations.
** [[Léon Blum]] founds a government of socialist parties in France.
** [[Iran crisis of 1946]]: Iranian troops recapture the [[Azerbaijan (Iran)|Azerbaijan]] province.
* [[December 14]]
** The [[International Labour Organization]] becomes a specialized agency of the [[United Nations]].
** [[Proposed United States purchase of Greenland#1946|Proposed United States purchase of Greenland]] from Denmark: An offer is made through diplomatic channels.
** [[Aspen Skiing Company]] opens [[Aspen Mountain (ski area)]] in Colorado with [[Ski Lift No. 1]], at {{convert|7980|ft|km|abbr=on}} the world's longest [[chairlift]] at this time.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lund|first=Morten|author2=Hayes, Mary|title=Skiing Comes to Aspen: Visionaries and Teachers|journal=Skiing Heritage Journal|year=1997|issue=2|page=18|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oVgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18}}</ref>
* [[December 15]]
** The first [[1946 French India Representative Assembly election|French India Representative Assembly election]] is held.
** [[Iran crisis of 1946]]: Iranian troops recapture the Kurdish [[Republic of Mahabad]].
* [[December 16]] – [[Thailand|Siam]] joins the [[United Nations]] (changes its name to [[Thailand]] in [[1949]]).
* [[December 19]] – [[Viet Minh]] forces begin a [[First Indochina War|war against French occupying forces]] in [[Vietnam]], succeeding in 1954 with France's surrender at the [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu]].
* [[December 21]] – [[1946 Nankai earthquake]]; At least 1,362 people are killed in an earthquake and associated tsunami in Japan.
* [[December 22]] – The [[Havana Conference]] begins between U.S. [[organized crime]] bosses in [[Havana]], [[Cuba]].
* [[December 24]] – The [[French Fourth Republic]] is founded.
* [[December 25]] – The first artificial, self-sustaining [[nuclear chain reaction]] in Europe is initiated, within the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] (Russian) [[nuclear reactor]] [[F-1 (nuclear reactor)|F-1]].
* [[December 31]] – U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]] delivers [[Proclamation 2714]], which officially ends hostilities in World War II.