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Birthday January 10, 1938

• The temperature on January 10, 1938 was between 1.7 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
  • March 18 » Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
  • June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
  • July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
  • 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 » Daniel Walker Howe, American historian and academic
• 1937 » Thomas Penfield Jackson, American soldier, lawyer, and judge († 2013)
• 1938 » Donald Knuth, American computer scientist and mathematician
• 1938 » Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
• 1938 » Willie McCovey, American baseball player († 2018)
• 1939 » Jared Carter, American poet and author