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Birthday November 28, 1926

• The temperature on November 28, 1926 was between 0.2 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
  • March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
  • April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
  • May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
  • July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
  • August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1924 » Dennis Brutus, South African journalist, poet, and academic († 2009)
• 1924 » Johanna Döbereiner, Czech-Brazilian agronomist and academic († 2000)
• 1925 » Gigi Gryce, American saxophonist and composer († 1983)
• 1925 » József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer and manager († 1978)
• 1927 » Abdul Halim of Kedah, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia († 2017)
• 1928 » Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist and academic († 1980)