Davis Family Tree » Daniel A Owen (1858-1936)

Day of death December 11, 1936

• The average temperature on December 11, 1936 was -0.7 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • August 3 » Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
  • September 7 » The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
  • October 4 » The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
  • October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
  • October 26 » The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
  • November 25 » In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1937 » Jaan Anvelt, Estonian theorist and politician (b. 1884)
• 1938 » Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1941 » Émile Picard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1941 » John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American pilot and poet (b. 1922)