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Birthday February 25, 1927

• The temperature on February 25, 1927 was between 0.9 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
  • February 23 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
  • April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
  • August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
  • September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
  • September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, Japanese-Turkish mathematician and academic; developed algebraic number theory († 2003)
• 1927 » Ralph Stanley, American bluegrass singer and banjo player; member of International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame († 2016)
• 1928 » A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., prominent African-American civil rights advocate, author, and federal court judge († 1998)
• 1928 » Larry Gelbart, American author and screenwriter; creator and producer of M*A*S*H TV series († 2009)
• 1928 » Paul Elvstrøm, Danish yachtsman; winner of four Olympic gold medals, 1948–1960 († 2016)
• 1928 » Richard G. Stern, American author and academic († 2013)