Family tree Schackman-Arink-Tel-Keijzer » Joseph Adrianus Marie Schackmann (1937-1937)

Birthday May 21, 1937

• The temperature on May 21, 1937 was between 8.8 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 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 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
  • April 9 » The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
  • May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
  • June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
  • September 5 » Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
  • October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » Bob Northern, American horn player and bandleader
• 1934 » Jocasta Innes, Chinese-English journalist and author († 2013)
• 1935 » Terry Lightfoot, English clarinet player and bandleader († 2013)
• 1936 » Günter Blobel, Polish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)
• 1938 » Lee "Shot" Williams, American singer († 2011)
• 1939 » Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist, composer, and conductor