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Birthday July 13, 1937

• The temperature on July 13, 1937 was between 8.7 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
  • February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
  • April 30 » The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
  • June 3 » The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
  • July 29 » Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
  • August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1935 » Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian journalist, author, and playwright
• 1935 » Jack Kemp, American football player and politician, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development († 2009)
• 1935 » Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist
• 1936 » Albert Ayler, American saxophonist and composer († 1970)
• 1937 » Ghillean Prance, English botanist and ecologist
• 1939 » Lambert Jackson Woodburne, South African admiral († 2013)