February 14, 1946: ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, begins operation. This photo has been artificially darkened, obscuring details such as the women who were present and the IBM equipment in use.[1]February 1, 1946: Trygve Lie becomes first UN Secretary GeneralFebruary 16, 1946: The S-51, the first commercial helicopter, makes its first flightFebruary 9, 1946: Stalin says that Inter-Capitalist war is inevitable
The following events occurred in February 1946:
^The original photo can be seen in the article: Rose, Allen (April 1946). "Lightning Strikes Mathematics". Popular Science: 83–86. Retrieved 15 April 2012.