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Birthday April 21, 1936

• The temperature on April 21, 1936 was between -1.0 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • March 1 » The Hoover Dam is completed.
  • March 29 » Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in the 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum.
  • April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
  • June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
  • August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
  • October 1 » Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia dissolves itself, handing control of Catalan defence militias over to the Generalitat.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1935 » Thomas Kean, American academic and politician, 48th Governor of New Jersey
• 1936 » James Dobson, American evangelist, psychologist, and author, founded Focus on the Family
• 1936 » Reg Fleming, Canadian-American ice hockey player († 2009)
• 1937 » Ben Zinn, Israeli-born American academic and former international soccer player
• 1937 » Gary Peters, American baseball player