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Birthday January 3, 1938

• The temperature on January 3, 1938 was between -11.2 °C and -1.5 °C and averaged -6.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 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.
  • June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
  • June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
  • July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
  • August 18 » The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1937 » Glen A. Larson, American director, producer, and screenwriter, created Battlestar Galactica († 2014)
• 1938 » K. Ganeshalingam, Sri Lankan accountant and politician, Mayor of Colombo († 2006)
• 1938 » Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, English academic and politician
• 1939 » Arik Einstein, Israeli singer-songwriter and actor († 2013)
• 1939 » Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940 » Leo de Berardinis, Italian actor and director († 2008)