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Day of death March 21, 1938

• The temperature on March 21, 1938 was between 4.1 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • 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 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
  • June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
  • July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
  • 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.
  • December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » Franz Schreker, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1878)
• 1934 » Lilyan Tashman, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1936 » Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1939 » Ali Hikmet Ayerdem, Turkish general and politician (b. 1877)
• 1939 » Evald Aav, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1900)
• 1943 » Cornelia Fort, American soldier and pilot (b. 1919)