1946

a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade.thumb|336x336px|Clockwise from top-left: the Dead Sea Scrolls are discovered; the All-India Muslim League takes direct action on Direct Action Day;First Indochina War between France and the Viet Minh; ENIAC, the first general-purpose computer; the Greek Civil War breaks out between the Kingdom of Greece and the Communist Party of Greece-led Provisional Democratic Government; post-war issues cause a famine in the Soviet Union; Crisis breaks out in Iran, one of the first crises of the Cold War; the Nuremberg trials are held by the Allies against representatives of defeated Nazi Germany.