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Birthday December 31, 1936

• The temperature on December 31, 1936 was between -0.5 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 4 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 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.
  • March 5 » First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
  • April 5 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
  • May 9 » Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
  • 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.
  • August 9 » Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
  • August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1934 » Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan, Indian author, poet, and scholar († 2017)
• 1935 » Salman of Saudi Arabia, King of Saudi Arabia
• 1937 » Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor, director, and composer
• 1937 » Avram Hershko, Hungarian-Israeli biochemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 » Barry Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager († 2019)
• 1937 » Tess Jaray, Austrian-English painter and educator