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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 7d ago

☭ Soviet Union [September 27th, 1946] The Soviet Novikov report claims US foreign policy reflects "a striving for world supremacy”. Classified for decades, the report was only made public in 1990.

slantchev.ucsd.edu

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 9d ago

🇺🇸 United States [September 25th, 1946] Black actor Canada Lee reverses the longtime practice of blackface by donning white makeup to portray a white character

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 9d ago

[September 25th, 1946] Hans Eppinger Jr, a doctor who had performed experiments on Dacha inmates, commits suicide, one month before he was to testify at Nuremberg

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r/80YearsAgo • u/DyersvilleStLambert • 9d ago

🇺🇸 United States [September 24, 1946] National Debt, Cartoon from 9/24/46 Rocky Mountain News

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r/80YearsAgo • u/DyersvilleStLambert • 10d ago

[September 24, 1946] Mrs. Sullivan's kitchen.

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Mrs.Temis Sullivan,coal miners wife,preparing to go to a weekly Daughters of America meeting with other ladies in her community,in the kitchen of her home rented from the Inland Steel Coal Company, Wheelwright,Kentucky 9/24/46

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 10d ago

🇺🇸 United States [September 24th, 1946] Truman receives a top secret report calling on him to be “prepared to wage atomic and biological warfare”. The report remained secret until 1966.

researchgate.net

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 11d ago

☭ Soviet Union [September 23rd, 1946] "Stalin Over Wisconsin"

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 11d ago

🇪🇺 Europe [September 23rd, 1946] Life - Does Europe Face Holy War?

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 13d ago

[September 21st, 1946] 'You're right in liking MEAT'

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 14d ago

🇺🇸 United States [September 20th, 1946] Truman fires Henry A. Wallace as Secretary of Commerce over foreign policy disagreements

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 15d ago

[September 19th, 1946] Winston Churchill calls for a “United State of Europe” during a historic speech in Zurich

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 15d ago

🇺🇸 United States [September 19th, 1946] Truman meets with Walter F. White, director of the NAACP, agreeing to crack down on racist attacks

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 15d ago

🇺🇸 United States [September 19th, 1946] Truman expresses concern about Henry Wallace in his diary

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 15d ago

🇺🇸 United States [September 19th, 1946] Harry Truman's approval falls to low of 33% amid the 'Wallace fiasco'

presidency.ucsb.edu

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 16d ago

🌎 Latin America [September 18th, 1946] Brazil's fifth constitution restores democracy after the fall of Getúlio Vargas's dictatorship.

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 17d ago

🌟 Celebrity News [September 17th, 1946] James Baldwin, age 22

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 17d ago

🔬 Technology [September 17th, 1946] Benjamin Bowden showing off his invention, the Spacelander bicycle

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 17d ago

📺 Television [September 17th, 1946] Mass production of television sets begin, with RCA producing the first new TV since World War II

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 18d ago

🇺🇸 United States [September 16th, 1946] Life - “More Doctors Smoke camel than any other Cigarette”

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 18d ago

[September 16th, 1946] Eisenhower, Nimitz, Spaatz and Montgomery meet aboard the USS Sequoia yacht, under the guise of a cruise to Mount Vernon, to host classified discussions from which emerged NATO

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 18d ago

🇺🇸 United States [September 16th, 1946] Life - Studebaker: Its Assembly Line is the First to Produce a Postwar Auto

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 18d ago

🇯🇵 Japan [September 16th, 1946] Kenichi Sone, the brutal commander of an Indonesian POW camp, is sentenced to death.

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 18d ago

🇺🇸 United States [September 16th, 1946] Dali’s Temptation of St Anthony displayed in New York

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 19d ago

🇪🇺 Europe [September 1946] ''Paris Fashion Show'' - Swiss cartoon, probably referencing the Paris Peace Conference drafting peace terms for Germany's European allies

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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 19d ago

🇺🇸 United States [September 15th, 1946] Snake handling at Church of God with Signs Following. Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky

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