October 1946

Tuesday 01:

Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.

Sunday 13:

France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.

Tuesday 15:

Nuremberg Trials: Founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, Hermann Göring, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution.

Wednesday 16:

Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials hanged.

Sunday 27:

First commercially-sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers).