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Birthday March 18, 1927

• The temperature on March 18, 1927 was between 1.7 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
  • April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
  • May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
  • December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Peter Graves, American actor and director († 2010)
• 1927 » George Plimpton, American journalist and actor († 2003)
• 1927 » John Kander, American pianist and composer
• 1927 » Lillian Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company († 2015)
• 1928 » Fidel V. Ramos, Filipino general and politician, 12th President of the Philippines
• 1928 » Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist († 2013)