the casualties are former Prime Minister Frank Forde. This is also the first election contested by the newly formed Liberal Party, which had replaced the United Australia Party as the main centre-right political party in Australia. George II of Greece returns to Athens. October October 1 – Mensa, an international organization for people with a high intelligence quotient (IQ), is founded by Roland Berrill, an Australian-born lawyer, and Dr Lancelot Ware, an English biochemist and lawyer, in Oxford. October 2 – Communists take over in Bulgaria. October 6 – Sweden's Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson dies in office of a heart attack. October 10 – The Noakhali genocide of Hindus in Bengal begins, at the hands of Muslim mobs. October 11 – After a few days of vacancy, the Swedish premiership is taken over by Tage Erlander. October 13 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic. October 14 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded. October 15 – Nuremberg trials: Hermann Göring, founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, poisons himself two hours before his scheduled execution. October 16 The remaining ten Nazi war criminals sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials are executed by hanging, in a gymnasium in the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg. The United Nations' first meeting in Long Island is held. October 23 – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City. October 24 – November 11 – 1946 Bihar riots: Hindu mobs target Muslim families in the Indian state of Bihar, resulting in anywhere between 2,000 and 30,000 deaths. November November 4 – UNESCO is established, as a specialized agency of the United Nations. November 10 – At least 1,400 people are killed in an earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter magnitude scale, in the Ancash Region and Quiches District in Peru. November 12 A truce is declared between Indonesian nationalist troops and the Dutch army, in Indonesia. In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank (now part of the Bank of America) opens the first 10 drive-up teller windows. November 15 – The Netherlands recognizes the Republic of Indonesia. November 19 Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations. 1946 Romanian general election: The Romanian Communist Party wins 79.86% of the vote, through widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud. November 23 Vietnamese riot in Haiphong