Timeline February 1946

Events in February 1946 8

• 1868 – 1946 George Arliss (1868-1946) English actor, the first British winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, for Disraeli.
• 1946 First United Nations General Assembly Convenes Fifty-one member states meet in London The United Nations General Assembly held its inaugural session at Central Hall Westminster in London. Delegates from the fifty-one founding member states elected Trygve Lie of Norway as the first Secretary-General and chose New York City as the future permanent headquarters.
• 1946 George Arliss dies in London George Arliss dies aged 77.
• 1946 – 2003 Gregory Hines (1946-2003) Died 9 August 2003, aged 57 Gregory Hines was a tap dancer and actor credited with helping revive tap as a popular art form. He starred on Broadway and in films including 'The Cotton Club' and 'White Nights', and won a Tony Award for 'Jelly's Last Jam'.
• 1946 – present Shahrnush Parsipur Iranian Novelist Iranian novelist, short-story writer and translator whose magical realist fiction about women's lives under patriarchal oppression made her one of the most important and persecuted writers in modern Persian literature. Imprisoned four times under both the Shah and the Islamic Republic for her writing and political dissent, she lived the last 32 years of her life in exile in California. Her most celebrated work, Women Without Men (1990), was banned in Iran, adapted into a Venice Film Festival award-winning film, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize in the year of her death.
• 1946 Shahrnush Parsipur born in Tehran Born Shahrnush Parsipur in Tehran, Iran, the daughter of Ali Parsipur, a judge and lawyer, and Fakhr al-Moluk Vala, an educated homemaker. She began writing at the age of thirteen.
• 1946 – 2016 Alan Rickman (1946-2016) Died 14 January 2016, aged 69 Rickman was an English actor known for roles including Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films and Hans Gruber in Die Hard. He built a distinguished career on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company before his film breakthrough. He died of pancreatic cancer.
• 1946 Juan Peron Elected President of Argentina Populist leader wins Argentina's first postwar election Juan Domingo Peron won Argentina's presidential election with the backing of labor unions and the working class. His presidency would reshape Argentine politics for decades through the movement that came to bear his name, Peronism.