FutureHistory » Marie-Louise "Wis" (Marie-Louise "Wis") Peeters (1946-2023)

Birthday December 10, 1946

• The temperature on December 10, 1946 was between -0.8 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
  • March 5 » Cold War: Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
  • March 29 » Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded.
  • April 5 » A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.
  • May 25 » The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
  • November 19 » Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
  • December 31 » President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1944 » Steve Renko, American baseball player
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• 1947 » Rasul Guliyev, Azerbaijani engineer and politician, 22nd Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan
• 1948 » Dušan Bajević, Bosnian-Greek footballer and manager