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Birthday February 12, 1938

• The temperature on February 12, 1938 was between 1.3 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 9.4 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
  • June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
  • July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
  • July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
  • October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
  • November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1935 » Gene McDaniels, American singer-songwriter and producer († 2011)
• 1936 » Alan Ebringer, Australian immunologist, professor at King's College in the University of London
• 1938 » Judy Blume, Jewish-American author and educator
• 1939 » Leon Kass, American physician, scientist, and educator
• 1939 » Ray Manzarek, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer († 2013)
• 1941 » Hubert Marcoux, Canadian solo sailor and author († 2009)