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Birthday March 12, 1936

• The temperature on March 12, 1936 was between -0.3 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • May 26 » In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.
  • August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
  • September 14 » Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza
  • October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
  • November 30 » In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
  • December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » Francisco J. Ayala, Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher
• 1936 » Eddie Sutton, American basketball player and coach
• 1936 » Michał Heller, Polish professor of philosophy
• 1936 » Virginia Hamilton, American children's books author († 2002)
• 1937 » Zoltán Horvath, Hungarian sabre fencer
• 1937 » Zurab Sotkilava, Georgian operatic tenor († 2017)