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Birthday July 27, 1924

• The temperature on July 27, 1924 was between 9.8 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 11.5 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
  • April 15 » Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
  • May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
  • November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
  • November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
  • December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1921 » Garry Davis, American pilot and activist, created the World Passport († 2013)
• 1922 » Adolfo Celi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter († 1986)
• 1922 » Norman Lear, American screenwriter and producer
• 1923 » Mas Oyama, South Korean-Japanese martial artist († 1994)
• 1924 » Otar Taktakishvili, Georgian composer and conductor († 1989)
• 1924 » Vincent Canby, American historian and critic († 2000)