Database Van Broekhoven » Doodgeboren kind Wilhart (1938)

Birthday March 5, 1938

• The temperature on March 5, 1938 was between -1.9 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
  • June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
  • July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
  • September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
  • September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
  • November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1937 » Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian general and politician, 5th President of Nigeria
• 1938 » Fred Williamson, American football player, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1938 » Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic († 2011)
• 1938 » Paul Evans, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 » Samantha Eggar, English actress
• 1939 » Tony Rundle, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Tasmania