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Birthday September 18, 1928

• The temperature on September 18, 1928 was between 4.8 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
  • May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
  • October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Bud Greenspan, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1926 » Joe Kubert, American author and illustrator, founded The Kubert School († 2012)
• 1927 » Muriel Turner, Baroness Turner of Camden, English politician († 2018)
• 1927 » Phyllis Kirk, American actress († 2006)
• 1929 » Nancy Littlefield, American director and producer († 2007)
• 1929 » Teddi King, American singer († 1977)