Jump on our Virtual Newsstand as we journey back to 1946. See and read the comic books on sale month by month, and find out the major news of the day.

January: United Nations General Assembly first meets in The Methodist Central Hall Westminster. 51 nations are represented.

February: Trygve Lie elected first Secretary General of the United Nations, a result of a compromise between the major powers.

March: Agreement recognizing Vietnam as autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation & French Union signed by Ho Chi Minh.

April: John Maynard Keynes one of the founders of modern macroeconomics & the most influential economist of the 20th century dies.

May: Dr. Louis Slotin working at the Los Alamos Laboratory, accidentally begins a fission reaction receiving a fatal dose of radiation.

June: A referendum held in Italy declares the country a republic. King Humbert II leaves the country for exile in Portugal.

July: Modern bikinis go on sale in Paris. The swimsuit is named after Bikini Atoll, where atomic bomb testing had taken place.

August: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission is established. Beginning the transfer of the control of atomic energy from military to civilian.

September: Cathay Pacific founded in Hong Kong by American Roy Farrell & Australian Sydney de Kantzow. Cathay is the ancient name for China.

October: 10 Nazi War criminals are executed. Hermann Goering commits suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule the night before.

November: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) a specialized agency of the U.N. is formed.

December: It's a Wonderful Life produced & directed by Frank Capra is released. The film will eventually be regarded a classic.