About the day » Tuesday June 18, 1946Calender converter

• Grietus Hekhuis († 2016)
• Doodgeboren kind Raaijmakers, Valkenswaard, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1946)
• Albertus du Pree, Hamersveld (Leusden), Utrecht, Nederland († 2009)
• Helena Keijzer, Maassluis
• Bernardina Alphonsa van ROOIJ, Alem, Maren en Kessel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)
• Bouke Terpstra, Wouterswoude († 1989)
• Bouke TERPSTRA, Wouterswoude, Friesland, Nederland († 1989)
• Bob Johannes Evenwel, Rotterdam
• Everdina-Tecla de Ruiter, Leeuwarden, Gemeente Leeuwarden
• Anna Maria (Anneke) de Graaf, Nederland († 2014)

• Cornelia Maria Jansen (58), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Camilia Roznowska (71)
• Berendina Smidt (43), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Cornelia (Korneliske) Wijma (87), Kollum
• Antoon Willemsen (48), den Haag
• Bernhard Krueger (1934), Waukesha, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States
• Arnold Johann Sondern (91), Dinxperlo
• Beatrice Montie Ganner (37), Colton, San Bernardina County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Bernardus Herrewijn (88), Warnsveld
• Adriana de Laat (89), Mill en Sint Hubert

• 1944 » Bruce DuMont, American broadcaster and political analyst
• 1944 » Sandy Posey, American pop/country singer
• 1946 » Bruiser Brody, American wrestler († 1988)
• 1946 » Fabio Capello, Italian footballer and manager
• 1946 » Maria Bethânia, Brazilian singer
• 1946 » Russell Ash, English journalist and author († 2010)
• 1947 » Bernard Giraudeau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1947 » Ivonne Coll, Puerto Rican-American model and actress, Miss Puerto Rico 1967
• 1947 » Linda Thorson, Canadian actress
• 1948 » Philip Jackson, English actor

• 1936 » Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Gaston Doumergue, French politician, 13th President of France (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Arthur Pryor, American trombonist, bandleader, and politician (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Elias Degiannis, Greek commander (b. 1912)
• 1945 » Florence Bascom, American geologist and educator (b. 1862)
• 1945 » Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (b. 1886)
• 1947 » Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
• 1948 » Edward Brooker, English-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1891)
• 1959 » Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
• 1963 » Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (b. 1912)

• 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.
• February 8 » The People's Republic of Korea is dissolved in the North, establishing the communist-controlled Provisional People's Committee of North Korea.
• March 2 » Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
• July 4 » The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
• September 19 » The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
• October 1 » Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.
• November 3 » The Constitution of Japan is adopted through Emperor's assent.

The temperature on June 18, 1946 was between 9.5 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.