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Birthday October 6, 1936

• The temperature on October 6, 1936 was between -2.3 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • March 16 » Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
  • 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.
  • June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
  • July 17 » Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
  • July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
  • October 26 » The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1933 » Prince Mukarram Jah, Titular Nizam of Hyderabad State
• 1934 » Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author († 2015)
• 1935 » Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American wrestler and trainer († 2018)
• 1936 » Julius L. Chambers, American lawyer, educator, and activist († 2013)
• 1938 » Serge Nubret, Caribbean-French bodybuilder and actor († 2011)
• 1939 » Melvyn Bragg, English journalist, author, and academic