Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Kuik (1938-1938)

Birthday September 6, 1938

• The temperature on September 6, 1938 was between 6.7 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • February 4 » Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
  • February 18 » Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
  • April 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
  • July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
  • September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
  • October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1937 » Janusz Kurczab, Polish fencer and mountaineer († 2015)
• 1937 » Jo Anne Worley, American actress, comedian, and singer
• 1937 » Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-Mexican author and illustrator
• 1938 » Joan Tower, American pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1939 » Brigid Berlin, American actress, painter, and photographer
• 1939 » David Allan Coe, American outlaw country music singer-songwriter and guitarist