Genealogy Peters - Bruce & Beverley nee Cropper » Susan Alice Mander (1937-1974)

Birthday December 26, 1937

• The average temperature on December 26, 1937 was 2.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
  • April 9 » The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
  • June 3 » The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
  • August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
  • September 5 » Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
  • December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Peep Jänes, Estonian architect
• 1936 » Trevor Taylor, English race car driver († 2010)
• 1937 » John Horton Conway, English mathematician, known for Conway's Game of Life († 2020)
• 1938 » Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter († 1989)
• 1938 » Bahram Beyzai, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1938 » Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, scholar, and author († 2013)