About the day » Monday June 21, 1948Calender converter

• johanna petronella maria engelen, helden-grashoek
• NN Wijnholds, Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland
• levenloos Venderink, Epe († 1948)
• Gerdina Reiniera Boerstoel, Gorssel († 2007)
• Jan Post († 1966)
• Hermann Schulte, Schöninghsdorf, Twist, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1993)
• Lilliane Maria Amsen, Saint Gobain (F) († 1951)
• Peter Oudejans, Purmerend, Nederland
• Edward Knight, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin († 1955)
• Dorothy Francis Bodecker († 2024)

• Berendina Pleij (69), Vriezenveen
• Andreas van Oers (80), Heeze, NL
• Catharina Mom (76), Nijmegen
• Anna Loth (52), Makassar
• Anthony Hurt Wolley (post Wolley-Dod) (86), Mayfield, East Sussex, England
• Anna Berendina van Baarlen (83), Rotterdams
• Charles Henry DEAN (33), Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia
• Cornelis Kamper (74), Zaandam,Gemeente Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Hendriks Bos (44), Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Koster, Heinenoord

• 1947 » Fernando Savater, Spanish philosopher and author
• 1947 » Joey Molland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 » Meredith Baxter, American actress
• 1947 » Michael Gross, American actor
• 1947 » Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, judge, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1947 » Wade Phillips, American football coach
• 1948 » Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish author and translator
• 1948 » Ian McEwan, British novelist and screenwriter
• 1948 » Jovan Aćimović, Serbian footballer and manager
• 1948 » Philippe Sarde, French composer and conductor

• 1934 » Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
• 1940 » Édouard Vuillard, French painter (b. 1868)
• 1940 » Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
• 1951 » Gustave Sandras, French gymnast (b. 1872)
• 1952 » Wop May, Canadian captain and pilot (b. 1896)
• 1954 » Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer, developed the zipper (b. 1880)
• 1957 » Claude Farrère, French captain and author (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1964 » James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Robert
10. Peter
11. Adrianus
12. Jacobus
13. John
14. Gerardus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Jacob

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Petronella
10. Adriana
11. Margaretha
12. Geertruida
13. Jacoba
14. Aaltje
15. Linda
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
• January 30 » British South American Airways' Tudor IV Star Tiger disappears over the Bermuda Triangle.
• May 18 » The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
• July 8 » The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
• July 31 » At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
• September 13 » Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
• October 28 » Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.

The temperature on June 21, 1948 was between 4.1 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.