Olson's Tree » Peter Bryant Godwin (1927-1927)

Birthday December 22, 1927

• The temperature on December 22, 1927 was between 0.7 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 16.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
  • May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
  • June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
  • July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
  • August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
  • September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1925 » Lewis Glucksman, American businessman and philanthropist († 2006)
• 1926 » Alcides Ghiggia, Italian-Uruguayan footballer and manager († 2015)
• 1926 » Roberta Leigh (Rita Shulman Lewin), British writer, artist and TV producer († 2014)
• 1928 » Fredrik Barth, German-Norwegian anthropologist and academic († 2016)
• 1929 » Wazir Mohammad, Indian-Pakistani cricketer