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Birthday October 21, 1938

• The temperature on October 21, 1938 was between 2.7 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
  • March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
  • June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
  • July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
  • September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
  • December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1937 » Hank Nelson, Australian historian and academic († 2012)
• 1937 » Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, Russian spiritual leader and scholar († 2012)
• 1938 » Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player († 2001)
• 1940 » Frances FitzGerald, American journalist and author
• 1940 » Geoffrey Boycott, English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1940 » Rhoda Gemignani, American actress