Genealogy Harssema » (Stillborn) POTZE (1936-1936)

Birthday September 5, 1936

• The temperature on September 5, 1936 was between 12.9 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 18.6 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • March 29 » Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in the 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum.
  • April 5 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
  • June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
  • July 19 » Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain - mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
  • July 21 » Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia is constituted, establishing an anarcho-syndicalist economy in Catalonia.
  • December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1935 » Werner Erhard, American author and philanthropist, founded Werner Erhard and Associates and The Hunger Project
• 1936 » Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player and coach
• 1936 » John Danforth, American politician and diplomat, 24th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1936 » Jonathan Kozol, American sociologist, author, and educator
• 1936 » Knuts Skujenieks, Latvian poet, journalist, and translator
• 1936 » Robert Burns, Canadian lawyer and politician († 2014)