The world's first electronic computer weighed 30 tons, had 18,000 vacuum tubes, and was tall, deep, and long. One of the computer's first tests was computing trajectories for rocket launching, "completing in ten days a job which would have required three months of concentrated effort by a mathematician". Born: Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru, 1989–1995, in the Ubenide Constituency (d. 2003) Gregory Hines, American dancer and actor, in New York (d. 2003) February 15, 1946 (Friday) Twenty-two current and former Canadian government employees were arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, after Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko had provided a list of 1,700 North American informants who were providing classified information to the U.S.S.R. The United Steel Workers of America and the United States Steel Corporation brought an end to the strike that had begun on January 21, with 130,000 employees returning to work on February 18 in return for an cent per hour wage increase. Died: Cornelius Johnson, 32, American high jump record holder and 1936 Olympic gold medalist, died of pneumonia February 16, 1946 (Saturday) The first UN Security Council veto was made, as the Soviet Union killed a resolution concerning the withdrawal of British and French forces from Syria and Lebanon. Frozen french fries were introduced. Pre-fried by Maxson Food Systems of Long Island, New York, and made to be baked in the oven, the product was first sold at Macy's in New York, but were not immediately popular. American per-capita potato consumption had declined since 1910, and was not measured at previous levels until 1962, when french fries were a fast-food restaurant staple. The Sikorsky S-51, the first helicopter sold for commercial rather than military use, was flown for the first time. February 17, 1946 (Sunday) In a policy of preventing Jewish immigration to Palestine, British authorities intercepted the ship Enzo Sereni, with 915 refugees on board. The Zionist group Palmach retaliated three days later with the destruction of a British Coast Guard station. Ismail Sidky is prime minister of Egypt after Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha, who returns in December. Died: Dorothy Gibson, 56, American silent film star February 18, 1946 (Monday) The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny began at at the port of Colaba near Bombay (now Mumbai). In the first mutiny in British India since 1857, a group of 1,600 sailors ("ratings") from HMIS Talwar walked out of the mess hall because of inadequate food, and