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Birthday December 16, 1936

• The temperature on December 16, 1936 was between 1.7 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
  • June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
  • June 30 » Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
  • 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.
  • July 23 » In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
  • August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
  • August 31 » Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1936 » Morris Dees, American lawyer and activist, co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center
• 1937 » Edward Ruscha, American painter and photographer
• 1937 » Joyce Bulifant, American actress
• 1938 » Frank Deford, American journalist and author († 2017)
• 1938 » Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1939 » Philip Langridge, English tenor († 2010)