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Birthday October 11, 1927

• The temperature on October 11, 1927 was between 2.8 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
  • April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
  • May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
  • August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
  • December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Earle Hyman, American actor († 2017)
• 1926 » Jean Alexander, English actress († 2016)
• 1926 » Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese monk, author, and poet
• 1926 » Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician († 2017)
• 1927 » Jim Prior, Baron Prior, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland († 2016)
• 1927 » Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium († 2005)