Dagosto/Dimirra/Weckerle/Kuhn Family Tree » Donald Wayne Hock (1937-1937)

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.
  • March 18 » Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
  • March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
  • April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
  • April 9 » The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
  • August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
  • August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

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)