page_title: April 1946
section_title: April 21, 1946 (Sunday)
hierarchical_section_title: April 1946 / April 21, 1946 (Sunday)
caption_attribution_description: John Maynard Keynes. Detail of a photograph with Jan Christian Smuts.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in April 1946:
context_section_description: The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands or SED), with one million members, was created in the Soviet zone of Germany (later East Germany by the merger of the Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party.  The SED would govern East Germany from 1946 until 1990.
  The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) made the first successful transmission of its system of color television, in a format that could be received by both black-and-white and color television sets.
  Died: John Maynard Keynes, 62, British economist for whom Keynesian economics is named
caption: Keynes
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