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December 20, 1946

On December 20, 1946, it's a Wonderful Life premieres at the Globe Theatre in New York to mixed reviews. Hayley Mills, Tim Curry, Steven L. Bennett would arrive in the same year.

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1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade.

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On December 20, 1946

  1. 1946 It's a Wonderful Life premieres at the Globe Theatre in New York to mixed reviews.

    1946 film by Frank Capra

    It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift", self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol.

  2. 1946 An earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan causes a tsunami which kills at least one thousand people and destroys 36,000 homes.

    Magnitude 8.1–8.4 earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan

    The 1946 Nankai earthquake was a great earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan. It occurred on December 21, 1946, at 04:19 JST. 4 on the moment magnitude scale, and was felt from Northern Honshū to Kyūshū.

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The class of 1946

Others born in 1946

Hayley Mills 1946– English actress
Tim Curry 1946– English actor and singer
Steven L. Bennett 1946– American captain and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1972)
Paul Davies 1946– English physicist and author
Louise Harel 1946– Canadian lawyer and politician
Archy Kirkwood 1946– Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope, Scottish lawyer and politician

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