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Birthday November 5, 1927

• The temperature on November 5, 1927 was between 8.3 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (19%). 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.
  • January 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
  • 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 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
  • December 19 » Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1923 » Rudolf Augstein, German soldier and journalist, co-founded Der Spiegel († 2002)
• 1926 » John Berger, English author, poet, painter, and critic († 2017)
• 1927 » Hirotugu Akaike, Japanese statistician († 2009)
• 1930 » Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic († 2015)
• 1930 » Wim Bleijenberg, Dutch footballer and manager († 2016)
• 1931 » Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic († 2013)