* 1946 – Willy van der Kuijlen, Dutch footballer

* 1946 – Sarel van der Merwe, South African rally driver

Between 1946 and 1951, Mies van der Rohe designed and built the Farnsworth House, a weekend retreat outside Chicago for an independent professional woman, Dr. Edith Farnsworth.

* 1884 – Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer ( d. 1946 )

* Dick van Dijk ( 1946 – 1997 ), famous football player.

* Henk van Kessel ( born 1946 ), Dutch motorcyclist

On 23 March 1946, he co-founded the Partij van de Vrijheid ( PvdV, Freedom Party ), together with some former members of the pre-war Liberale Staatspartij ( LSP, Liberal State Party ).

* Nicholas van Hoogstraten, British property tycoon, was born in Shoreham-by-Sea in 1946 and was educated at a local Jesuit school.

Martin Levi van Creveld ( born 5 March 1946 ) is an Israeli military historian and theorist.

The first Regent was completed on March 13, 1946 ; just ten years after the first twin cylinder van had been built.

* August 2-Cornélie van Zanten, opera singer and teacher ( d. 1946 )

Other Broadway roles included Van van Dorn in High Tor ( 1937 ), Liliom in Liliom ( 1940 ), Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World ( 1946 ), and Adolphus Cusins Major Barbara ( 1957 ).

His father Jacobus Heesters ( 1865 – 1946 ) was a salesman and his mother Geertruida Jacoba van den Heuvel ( 1866 – 1951 ), a homemaker.

The first equation of state for hair was developed by C F van Wyk in 1946.

The institute was founded in 1946 by Johannes van der Corput, David van Dantzig, Jurjen Koksma, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Marcel Minnaert and Jan Arnoldus Schouten.

* Maria van der Holst-Blijlevens ( b. 1946 ), Dutch sprint canoer

Adriaan van Maanen ( March 31, 1884, Sneek – January 26, 1946, Pasadena ) was a Dutch – American astronomer.

* 1946: The Free-minded Democratic League merged into the present-day Labour Party ( Partij van de Arbeid ), a faction joined the ⇒ Freedom Party

Lucien van Impe ( born 20 October 1946 in Mere, Belgium ) was a Belgian cyclist from 1969 to 1987.

Harry Vanda ( born Johannes Hendricus Jacob van den Berg, 22 March 1946, The Hague, Netherlands ), is a Dutch-born Australian popular music singer, guitarist, songwriter and record producer.

* Foreign affairs: Eelco van Kleffens ( no party ) ( June 24, 1945 – March 1, 1946 )

* Herman van Roijen ( no party ) ( March 1, 1946 – July 3, 1946 )

* 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

* 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.

György Sándor was the soloist in the first performance of the Third Piano Concerto on February 8, 1946.

His first two marriages ended in divorce — to June Ernst from 1935 to 1946, and to Norma Anderson from 1946 to 1969.

The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.

The first Blue Angel Flight Demonstration Squadron ( 1946 – 1947 ), assembled in front of one of their F6F Hellcat s ( l to r ): Lt. Al Taddeo, Solo ; Lt.

" The team's first demonstration before Navy officials took place on 10 May 1946 and was met with enthusiastic approval.

After World War II, the French Constitution of 1946 inaugurated the first of a series of reforms that led eventually to complete independence for all French territories in western and equatorial Africa.

The squad included seven future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Browns ' first regular-season game took place September 6, 1946 at Cleveland Municipal Stadium against the Miami Seahawks before a record crowd of 60, 135.

Since these first accounts, Bulgarian authorities had organized several population censuses: 1892, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1920, 1926, 1934, 1946, 1956, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1992, 2001 and 2011.

The first population census after the independence in 1946 was taken in 1952.

* Shirley Chisholm ( 1946 ), first African-American U. S. Congresswoman, 1968 – 1982.

The first native seeds were planted with the publication of The Canadian Unitarian in Ottawa from 1940 to 1946, a small newsletter distributed with the newsletters of Canadian churches.

Atkins made his first appearance at the Opry in 1946 as a member of Foley's band.

Hilbert, the first of two children of Otto and Maria Therese ( Erdtmann ) Hilbert, was born in the Province of Prussia-either in Königsberg ( according to Hilbert's own statement ) or in Wehlau ( known since 1946 as Znamensk ) near Königsberg where his father worked at the time of his birth.

* 1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.

* 1946 – The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.

Although the Period takes its name from the Ediacara Hills where geologist Reg Sprigg first discovered fossils of the eponymous biota in 1946, the type section is located in the bed of the Enorama Creek within Brachina Gorge in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, at.

Although Walter Winterbottom was appointed as England's first ever full-time manager in 1946, the team was still picked by a committee until Alf Ramsey took over in 1963.

The official band logo, designed in 1976 by artist Kosh, was first seen on their 1976 album A New World Record and is based on a 1946 Wurlitzer jukebox model 4008 speaker.

Such films include Wolfgang Staudte's Die Mörder sind unter uns ( The Murderers are among us ) ( 1946 ), the first film made in post-war Germany, and Wolfgang Liebeneiner's Liebe 47 ( Love 47 ) ( 1949 ), an adaptation of Wolfgang Borchert's play Draußen vor der Tür.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).