About the day » Wednesday June 12, 1946Calender converter

• Naamloos van der Lans, Lisse († 1946)
• Gijsbertus Hendrik Sep, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant (Nederland) († 1946)
• Albert Anthonius Edelbroek, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Evert Romkes († 2019)
• Dempsey Leroy Snelson, Colusa County, California, Verenigde Staten († 1999)
• Hendrikus van der Craats, Ede {GE} († 1947)
• Johannes Kalthoff, Zutphen († 1946)
• Johannes Gerardus Adrianus Maria Graafmans, Alphen en Riel († 1981)
• Leo van Oudheusden, Rozenburg († 2017)
• Annigje Grietje Trouw, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)

• Adrianus Marinus STOMPS (81), Utrecht, Nederland
• Arie Vilders (63), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antoinette Johanna Maria Melania Mutsaerts (63), Vught,Gemeente Vught,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Abraham Degeling (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jantina Wubbina Vos (46), Sneek
• Christina Anna Maria Henrica Manders (1), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Bastiaan VERVOORN (74), .........
• Cornelis Johannes Mink (46), Middelburg
• Alida (Aaltje) Cornelia VERLOOP (76), ís-Gravenhage
• Aries Slagter (67), Englewood (USA)

• 1945 » Pat Jennings, Irish footballer and coach
• 1946 » Bobby Gould, English footballer and manager
• 1946 » Catherine Bréchignac, French physicist and academic
• 1946 » Michel Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1948 » Hans Binder, Austrian race car driver
• 1948 » Herbert Meyer, German footballer
• 1948 » Len Wein, American comic book writer and editor († 2017)
• 1949 » Jens Böhrnsen, German judge and politician
• 1949 » John Wetton, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer († 2017)
• 1949 » Marc Tardif, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1932 » Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
• 1937 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian general (b. 1893)
• 1944 » Erich Marcks, German general (b. 1891)
• 1946 » Médéric Martin, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Harry Lawson, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Victoria (b. 1875)
• 1957 » Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (b. 1904)
• 1962 » John Ireland, English composer and educator (b. 1879)
• 1963 » Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (b. 1925)
• 1966 » Hermann Scherchen, German viola player and conductor (b. 1891)
• 1968 » Herbert Read, English poet and critic (b. 1893)

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

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

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
• April 5 » Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.
• May 7 » Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.
• July 7 » Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
• July 25 » The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test.
• August 7 » The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
• December 20 » The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.

The temperature on June 12, 1946 was between 4.6 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.