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Birthday January 11, 1927

• The temperature on January 11, 1927 was between 5.8 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
  • May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
  • May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
  • July 4 » First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
  • 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?"
  • October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1924 » Roger Guillemin, French-American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1924 » Sam B. Hall, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and politician († 1994)
• 1925 » Grant Tinker, American television producer, co-founded MTM Enterprises († 2016)
• 1926 » Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut († 1998)
• 1928 » David L. Wolper, American director and producer († 2010)
• 1929 » Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect and theorist († 2020)