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Birthday March 9, 1931

• The average temperature on March 9, 1931 was -5.3 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
  • February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
  • March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
  • July 1 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
  • August 24 » France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact.
  • October 17 » Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
  • December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1929 » Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese lawyer, politician and President of Guyana († 2002)
• 1929 » Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 19th President of Bangladesh († 2013)
• 1930 » Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer († 2015)
• 1931 » Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish politician († 2014)
• 1932 » Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter and academic († 2014)
• 1932 » Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican-American astrologer and actor († 2019)