Family tree Kaper » Johanna Hendrika Everdina de Wit (1946-1946)

Day of death April 5, 1946

• The temperature on April 5, 1946 was between 6.0 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
• 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.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • February 14 » The Bank of England is nationalized.
  • February 18 » Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
  • March 6 » Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
  • May 10 » First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
  • July 4 » The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
  • October 13 » France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.

Source: Wikipedia

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