ShirekChamove Tree » Judith Marwitz (1938-2007)

Birthday July 27, 1938

• The temperature on July 27, 1938 was between 13.1 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
  • June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
  • July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
  • 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.
  • November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1937 » Anna Dawson, English actress and singer
• 1937 » Don Galloway, American actor († 2009)
• 1937 » Robert Holmes à Court, South African-Australian businessman and lawyer († 1990)
• 1938 » Gary Gygax, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons († 2008)
• 1939 » Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet and academic
• 1939 » William Eggleston, American photographer and academic