Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Bos (1936-1936)

Birthday February 22, 1936

• The temperature on February 22, 1936 was between 4.4 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • February 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
  • April 27 » The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
  • May 5 » Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • October 4 » The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
  • December 5 » The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
  • December 13 » An annular solar eclipse occurred and was visible from Australia, New Zealand on December 14th (Monday), and Oeno Island in Pitcairn Islands on December 13th (Sunday).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » Sparky Anderson, American baseball player and manager († 2010)
• 1936 » J. Michael Bishop, American microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 » Joanna Russ, American author and activist († 2011)
• 1937 » Tommy Aaron, American golfer
• 1938 » Steve Barber, American baseball player († 2007)
• 1938 » Tony Macedo, Gibraltarian born English footballer, goalkeeper