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Birthday September 3, 1938

• The temperature on September 3, 1938 was between 5.8 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • March 12 » Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
  • March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
  • July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
  • July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
  • August 20 » Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
  • December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Tunisia († 2019)
• 1938 » Caryl Churchill, English-Canadian playwright
• 1938 » Liliane Ackermann, Jewish-French microbiologist, community leader, writer, and lecturer († 2007)
• 1938 » Richard MacCormac, English architect, founded MJP Architects († 2014)
• 1938 » Ryōji Noyori, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1938 » Sarah Bradford, English historian and author