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Birthday October 27, 1927

• The temperature on October 27, 1927 was between 13.3 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • January 11 » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
  • March 29 » Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
  • 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).
  • April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
  • May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
  • June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Boris Chetkov, Russian painter († 2010)
• 1926 » H. R. Haldeman, American businessman and diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff († 1993)
• 1926 » Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter († 1943).
• 1926 » Takumi Shibano, Japanese author and translator († 2010)
• 1927 » Dominick Argento, American composer and educator († 2019)
• 1928 » Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet