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Birthday January 6, 1927

• The temperature on January 6, 1927 was between 4.5 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
  • January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
  • March 15 » The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
  • April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
  • April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
  • December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1924 » Kim Dae-jung, South Korean soldier and politician, 8th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)
• 1925 » John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company († 2005)
• 1926 » Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder († 2006)
• 1926 » Ralph Branca, American baseball player († 2016)
• 1927 » Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States († 2014)
• 1928 » Capucine, French actress and model († 1990)