Nationwide, 54 million people watch the performance, setting a new record. 1956: Elvis Presley appears on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town, where he performs "Hound Dog" and "Love Me Tender" before a mostly female audience.1951: Six western European nations form the European Coal and Steel Community, forerunner of the European Economic Community and the later European Union.1946: Building of the first true electronic computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC).1946: At the Nuremberg trials, twelve Nazi leaders are sentenced to death, and seven others to prison.1946: Three months after the first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in London in January, the allbut-defunct League of Nations is officially dissolved.1946: Winston Churchill warns of an "Iron Curtain" spreading across Eastern Europe.Combined with the attack on the Soviet Union, which makes Stalin an unlikely ally of the Western democracies, the events of 1941 will ultimately turn the tide of the war. 1941: Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on 7 December brings the United States into the war against the Axis.The Spanish Civil War will prove to be a lightning rod for the world's tensions, with the Nazis and fascists supporting the Nationalists, and the Soviets the Loyalists. Over the next three years, war will rage between the Loyalists and Franco's Nationalists. 1936: The election of a leftist Popular Front government in Spain in February precipitates an uprising by rightists under the leadership of Francisco Franco.In London, armies of the unemployed riot. 1931: Financial crisis widens in the United States and Europe, which reel from bank failures and climbing unemployment levels.1926: Britain paralyzed by a general strike.
Among its provisions was a ban on secondary or "sympathy" strikes that essentially outlawed general strikes. The success of these general strikes, combined with the thousands of other work stoppages in 1946, led to a backlash against labor that culminated in the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947. In the longest general strike, 100,000 workers in Oakland, California, essentially shut the city down from 2 to 5 December 1946.
The action forced the city of Rochester to meet most of the strikers' demands and prevented management from firing those who had gone out on strike. In Rochester, New York, municipal workers enlisted the help of approximately 35,000 members of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations for a general strike on.
In Stamford, Connecticut, workers poured into the city on 3 January 1946 to show their support for strikers at the Yale and Towne metal works the show of solidarity helped to force the company to enter into collective bargaining with International Association of Machinists. In some cities the strikes even led to general strikes as workers protested for union recognition and wage and benefit increases. history occurred when two million workers walked off their jobs at different times during the year.
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