Editing 1946 (section)

===February===
{{Main|February 1946}}
* [[February 1]]
** [[Trygve Lie]] of Norway is selected as the first [[United Nations Secretary-General]].
** The [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)|Kingdom of Hungary]] becomes a [[Second Hungarian Republic|republic]], heavily influenced by the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[February 14]] – [[ENIAC]] (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), an early general-purpose electronic [[computer]], is unveiled at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]; it weighs 60,000 pounds (over 27 tons), and occupies a big room.
* [[February 15]] – The [[Gouzenko Affair]]: Canada announces the shocking discovery of a ring of Canadian communist spies based at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, passing [[atomic bomb]] secrets to Russia.
* [[February 20]] – An explosion kills more than 400 coal miners in [[Bergkamen]], West Germany.<ref>{{cite book|author=F. S. V. Donnison|title=Civil Affairs and Military Government: North-west Europe, 1944-1946.|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|year=1961|page=416}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] – [[Juan Perón]] is elected [[president of Argentina]].