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Day of death April 11, 1938

• The temperature on April 11, 1938 was between -0.6 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
  • July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
  • October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
  • October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
  • 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 1 » Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
  • December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Otto Wagner, Austrian architect and urban planner (b. 1841)
• 1926 » Luther Burbank, American botanist and academic (b. 1849)
• 1939 » Kurtdereli Mehmet, Turkish wrestler (b. 1864)
• 1953 » Kid Nichols, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
• 1954 » Paul Specht, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1895)
• 1958 » Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter and educator (b. 1875)