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1946 in Luxembourg

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Decades:
  
1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

April – June

  • 17 April – Luxembourg signs a convention with France and Belgium to place the Luxembourg railway network in the hands of the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, in which France and Belgium each take a 24.5% stake.
  • 29 April – The Mayor of Luxembourg City, Gaston Diderich, dies in office and is succeeded by Émile Hamilius.
  • 14 May – Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois is founded.
  • 13 June – Charles Marx dies in a car crash. He was replaced in the government by Dominique Urbany eight days later.
  • July – September

  • 14 July – Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits Luxembourg for two days.
  • 29 August – In a cabinet reshuffle, the independent Guillaume Konsbruck is replaced by the CSV's Lambert Schaus.
  • October – December

  • 28 November – Former Prime Minister Pierre Prüm is sentenced to four years in prison for collaboration with Nazi Germany.
  • Births

  • 2 January – Fernand Diederich, politician
  • 6 January – Victor Gillen, member of the Council of State
  • 17 January – Jean-Jacques Kasel, jurist
  • 18 January – Guy Lenz, soldier
  • 22 February – Marc Fischbach, politician
  • 6 April – Mario Hirsch, journalist
  • 7 April – Léon Krier, architect
  • 4 December – Pierre Even, composer
  • Deaths

  • 29 April – Gaston Diderich, politician
  • 13 June – Charles Marx, politician
  • 24 October – Hubert Loutsch, politician and former Prime Minister
  • References

    1946 in Luxembourg Wikipedia