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Birthday October 30, 1937

• The temperature on October 30, 1937 was between 6.6 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
  • August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
  • October 9 » Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
  • November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
  • December 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
  • December 29 » The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

Source: Wikipedia

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