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Birthday March 12, 1927

• The temperature on March 12, 1927 was between -1.1 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
  • April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
  • September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
  • December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Arthur A. Hartman, American career diplomat († 2015)
• 1926 » George Ariyoshi, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Hawaii
• 1926 » John Clellon Holmes, American author and professor († 1988)
• 1927 » Emmett Leith, professor of electrical engineering and co-inventor of three-dimensional holography († 2005)
• 1927 » Raúl Alfonsín, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 46th President of Argentina († 2009)
• 1927 » Sudharmono, 5th Vice President of Indonesia († 2006)