John and Margrietje deKraai Fennema family » Fayeanne Bruhn (1932-1932)

Birthday August 17, 1932

• The temperature on August 17, 1932 was between 16.9 °C and 27.3 °C and averaged 21.2 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1932: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
  • February 4 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
  • March 19 » The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
  • May 23 » In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.
  • July 1 » Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed.
  • October 15 » Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
  • December 27 » Radio City Music Hall, "Showplace of the Nation", opens in New York City.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1932 » Duke Pearson, American pianist and composer († 1980)
• 1932 » Jean-Jacques Sempé, French cartoonist
• 1932 » V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-English novelist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)
• 1933 » Mark Dinning, American pop singer († 1986)