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Birthday February 15, 1928

• The temperature on February 15, 1928 was between 6.6 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain. 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
  • October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
  • December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1927 » Frank Dunlop, English actor and director
• 1927 » Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian († 2008)
• 1927 » Yehoshua Neuwirth, Israeli rabbi and scholar († 2013)
• 1928 » Joseph Willcox Jenkins, American composer, conductor, and educator († 2014)
• 1928 » Norman Bridwell, American author and illustrator, created Clifford the Big Red Dog († 2014)
• 1929 » Graham Hill, English race car driver and businessman († 1975)