| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1946, June 2 | |
| The United States and Great Britain returned the bases they had held in the Azores during the war. | 1 |
| 1949, Feb. 13 | |
| President Antonio Carmona, 79, was reelected after the single opposition candidate withdrew. | 2 |
| April 4 | |
| Portugal signed the North Atlantic Treaty. It still was excluded from the United Nations, however, by Soviet veto. | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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