It was a great day with my parents and my mom's family. I was especially pleased to enjoy a piece of delicious red velvet cake from The Chocolate Season for dessert. Yum!
For the sake of this blog, I decided to do some investigating about the headlines and highlights of 1946, the year my grandparents were married.
- The president was Harry Truman
- The U.S. population was 141.3 million (The population in 2015 was 321.8 million)
- Life expectancy was 66.7 years
- It's A Wonderful Life hit theaters
- In January was the first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly
- The Philippines gained independence from the United States
- Winston Churchill presented his Iron Curtain speech
- The Saint Louis Cardinals won the World Series
- North Carolina got defeated (again) in the NCAA championship by Oklahoma A&M
- Cannes Film Festival debuted in France
- Tupperware, credit cards and waterproof diapers were invented