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Birthday September 18, 1937

• The temperature on September 18, 1937 was between 10.8 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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 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.
  • February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
  • March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
  • May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
  • May 30 » Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
  • August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
  • December 21 » Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1935 » John Spencer, English snooker player and sportscaster († 2006)
• 1935 » Peter Clarke, English cartoonist († 2012)
• 1936 » Big Tom, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2018)
• 1937 » Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, South African politician († 2009)
• 1937 » Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1938 » Billy Robinson, English-American wrestler and trainer († 2014)