Downs Tree » Murel Margurette Hutchinson (1927-1982)

Birthday April 25, 1927

• The temperature on April 25, 1927 was between 5.0 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
  • May 4 » The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.
  • July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
  • August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
  • December 2 » Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1926 » Patricia Castell, Argentine actress († 2013)
• 1927 » Albert Uderzo, French author and illustrator († 2020)
• 1927 » Corín Tellado, Spanish author († 2009)
• 1928 » Cy Twombly, American-Italian painter and sculptor († 2011)