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Birthday February 3, 1938

• The temperature on February 3, 1938 was between 2.7 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
  • March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
  • May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
  • September 5 » Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
  • December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Bob Simpson, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1936 » Elizabeth Peer, American journalist († 1984)
• 1937 » Billy Meier, Swiss author and photographer
• 1938 » Emile Griffith, American boxer and trainer († 2013)
• 1938 » Victor Buono, American actor († 1982)
• 1939 » Michael Cimino, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2016)