up on your persuasive measures.". Bilbo won re-election in the primary and general election, but as a result of his call for violence against African-American voters, the United States Senate refused to let him be sworn in for a new term. The first delivery of the United States mail by jet plane was made by two P-80 Shooting Star planes. The inaugural flight left Schenectady, New York at 12:18 and arrived in Washington, D.C. at 1:07 pm, with an air mail letter delivered to President Truman. Born: Kay Redfield Jamison, American psychiatrist and bipolar disorder specialist June 23, 1946 (Sunday) The Monnet Plan, France's proposal to dismantle 200 factories in the French Zone of Occupation in southeast Germany to offset France's war losses of 4,869,000,000,000 francs (40 billion dollars) was presented. Over the next three years, the machinery from 22 factories in the occupation zone would be moved to France, and another 88 factories would be destroyed. The National Democratic Front won a landslide victory in the municipal elections in French India Born: Ted Shackelford, American television actor known for Knots Landing from 1979 to 1993; in Oklahoma City Died: William S. Hart, 81, American film actor and star of Westerns during silent era June 24, 1946 (Monday) Seven players on the Spokane Indians minor league baseball team, and their manager, were killed when their bus veered through a guard rail on the Snoqualmie Pass Highway and plunged down a 500-foot embankment and into a ravine. The Indians, in fifth place in the Western International League (now the Northwest League) had been on their way to Bremerton, Washington, for a seven-game series against the Bluejackets. Born: Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut; in Kealakekua, Hawaii (killed in the Challenger disaster 1986) Robert Reich, U.S. Secretary of Labor 1993 to 1997; in Scranton, Pennsylvania June 25, 1946 (Tuesday) The World Bank (officially the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) began operations, with Eugene Meyer, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, as the IBRD's first president. Ten middle school students were killed and twenty wounded at Xuzhou (Hsuchow), in China's Jiangsu province, after Nationalist Army officer Feng Yu-xiang Fang Jingxing ordered them to be fired on by machine guns. The massacre followed an angry confrontation between the students and the officer. June 26, 1946 (Wednesday) Taking the Chinese Civil War into a new phase, President Chiang Kai-shek launched a nationwide military campaign