March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
Day of death May 7, 1946
The temperature on May 7, 1946 was between 7.7 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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.
January 3 » Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
January 24 » The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
February 1 » Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary-General.
November 3 » The Constitution of Japan is adopted through Emperor's assent.
November 23 » French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians.
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