Database Van Broekhoven » Doodgeboren kind Goorts (1938)

Birthday December 15, 1938

• The temperature on December 15, 1938 was between 2.3 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
  • July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
  • August 18 » The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
  • September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Joe D'Amato, Italian director and producer († 1999)
• 1938 » Billy Shaw, American football player
• 1938 » Bob Foster, American boxer and police officer († 2015)
• 1938 » Michael Bogdanov, Welsh director and screenwriter († 2017)
• 1939 » Cindy Birdsong, American singer-songwriter
• 1940 » Nick Buoniconti, American football player and sportscaster († 2019)