The following events occurred in August 1946: August 1, 1946 (Thursday) The five-member Atomic Energy Commission was established, transferring control of nuclear weapons from military to civilian control. The Fulbright Scholarship program was created. Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) was founded as a consortium of the flag carriers of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Born: Mike Emrick, American sportscaster (The NHL on NBC), in La Fontaine, Indiana Sandi Griffiths, American singer (The Lawrence Welk Show), in Los Angeles August 2, 1946 (Friday) The first sale of radioactive isotopes was completed, when a container of carbon-14 was delivered from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital in St. Louis. What would become known as the "Battle of Athens" took place in Athens, Tennessee, a group of World War II veterans took up arms to keep the McMinn County sheriff and his deputies from counting the ballots in the primary election. Born: Nakagami Kenji, Japanese novelist, in Shingū, Wakayama (d. 1992) Died: Red Army General Andrey Vlasov, 45, was executed in the Soviet Union after being convicted of treason, arising out of his surrender to Germany in 1942. August 3, 1946 (Saturday) Santa Claus Land, credited as the first "theme park" for coordinating amusement park rides with a Christmas time theme, was opened by Louis Koch at Santa Claus, Indiana. Now operating as Holiday World, the park preceded Disneyland by nine years. Born: Jack Straw, British Home Secretary 1997–2001, Foreign Secretary 2001–06; in Buckhurst Hill, Essex August 4, 1946 (Sunday) An 8.0 magnitude earthquake killed more than 100 people in the Dominican Republic. Almost of the victims were killed by a tsunami that washed over the coastal village of Matanza after the shock registered at 1:51 pm local time (1751 UTC). August 5, 1946 (Monday) Neil Armstrong of Wapakoneta, Ohio, who on July 20, 1969, would be the first man to walk on the moon, earned his student pilot's certificate on his 16th birthday, learning on an Aeronca Champion airplane. Born: Shirley Ann Jackson, Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics; in Washington, D.C. August 6, 1946 (Tuesday) Hungary's gold reserve of $32,000,000 was returned to Budapest, from Frankfurt, where it had been stored by the government of Nazi Germany. The return of the gold stabilized the Hungarian economy following the hyperinflation of the prior two months. Martin Luther