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Birthday January 26, 1928

• The temperature on January 26, 1928 was between 4.6 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
  • January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
  • April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • 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.
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani linguist and scholar († 2013)
• 1927 » Bob Nieman, American baseball player and scout († 1985)
• 1927 » Hubert Schieth, German footballer and manager († 2013)
• 1927 » José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran businessman and politician, President of Honduras († 2005)
• 1928 » Roger Vadim, French actor and director († 2000)
• 1929 » Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, and educator