Editing 1946 (section)

===May===
{{Main|May 1946}}
* [[May 1]] – At least 800 [[Indigenous Australian]] pastoral workers walk off the job in Northwest Western Australia, starting [[1946 Pilbara strike|one of the longest industrial strikes in Australia]].
* [[May 7]] – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed ''[[Sony]]'') is founded, with about 20 employees.
* [[May 9]] – King [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy]] abdicates, and is succeeded by his son [[Umberto II of Italy|Umberto II]].
* [[May 10]]
** [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] is elected leader of the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]] in India.
** The first [[V-2 rocket]] to be successfully launched in the United States is fired from [[White Sands Missile Range]].
* [[May 21]] – [[Manhattan Project]] physicist [[Louis Slotin]] accidentally triggers a [[fission reaction]] at the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] in the United States and, although saving his coworkers, gives himself a lethal dose of [[ionizing radiation]], making him the second victim of a [[criticality accident]] in history (the incident is initially treated as [[classified information]]).
* [[May 23]]–[[May 24|24]] – [[Tornado outbreak of May 23–24, 1946|A two-day violent tornado outbreak]] occurs across the Central United States, with at least 15 significant tornadoes killing four people and injuring 42 others.
* [[May 25]] – The Emirate of Jordan becomes the [[Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan]] when its parliament makes the ruling [[Abdullah I of Jordan|amir Abdullah]] their king on the day it ratifies the [[Treaty of London (1946)|Treaty of London]].
* [[May 26]] – [[1946 Czechoslovak parliamentary election]]: Communists win with (38%), in the last election before communists take power.
* [[May 31]] – The [[1946 Greek referendum]] supports the return of the [[monarchy of Greece|monarchy]].