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Birthday February 25, 1932

• The temperature on February 25, 1932 was between -1.1 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1932: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
  • February 25 » Hitler, having been stateless for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a Brunswick state official by Dietrich Klagges, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for Reichspräsident in the 1932 election.
  • May 21 » Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • May 23 » In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.
  • September 10 » The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
  • November 3 » Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
  • November 8 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the United States, defeating incumbent president Herbert Hoover.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1928 » A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., prominent African-American civil rights advocate, author, and federal court judge († 1998)
• 1928 » Paul Elvstrøm, Danish yachtsman; winner of four Olympic gold medals, 1948–1960 († 2016)
• 1932 » Faron Young, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist; member of Country Music Hall of Fame († 1996)
• 1932 » Tony Brooks, English racing driver; six Formula One victories, second in 1959 World Championship
• 1934 » Tony Lema, American golfer; winner of the 1964 Open Championship († 1966)
• 1935 » Oktay Sinanoglu, Turkish physical chemist and molecular biophysicist; two-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry († 2015)