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Birthday December 19, 1928

• The temperature on December 19, 1928 was between -5.1 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
  • September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
  • October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1927 » James Booth, English actor and screenwriter († 2005)
• 1928 » Eve Bunting, Irish-American author and academic
• 1928 » Nathan Oliveira, American painter and sculptor († 2010)
• 1929 » Bob Brookmeyer, American trombonist, pianist, and composer († 2011)
• 1929 » David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish potter
• 1929 » Gregory Carroll, American singer-songwriter and producer († 2013)