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Day of marriage January 24, 1938

• The temperature on January 24, 1938 was between 6.6 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 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.
  • January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
  • February 4 » Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
  • February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
  • April 30 » The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit, an early version of Bugs Bunny.
  • August 18 » The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.

Day of death July 13, 1941

• The temperature on July 13, 1941 was between 17.2 °C and 29.2 °C and averaged 21.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1941: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
  • May 10 » World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
  • September 28 » World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
  • October 30 » President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
  • December 1 » World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
  • December 6 » World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War. Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied Secret Agents for the War.
  • December 11 » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during the Battle of Wake Island.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and academic (b. 1849)
• 1936 » Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and politician (b. 1887)
• 1941 » Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (b. 1913)
• 1945 » Alla Nazimova, Russian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
• 1946 » Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator (b. 1864)
• 1949 » Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (b. 1877)