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Birthday August 22, 1927

• The temperature on August 22, 1927 was between 13.1 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
  • May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
  • May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
  • July 4 » First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
  • October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
  • December 30 » The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » Honor Blackman, English actress and republican († 2020)
• 1926 » Bob Flanigan, American pop singer († 2011)
• 1928 » Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer and academic († 2007)
• 1928 » Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean academic and diplomat (d.2015)
• 1929 » Ulrich Wegener, German police officer and general († 2017)
• 1929 » Valery Alekseyev, Russian anthropologist and author († 1991)