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Birthday February 16, 1927

• The temperature on February 16, 1927 was between -1.8 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
  • March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
  • 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).
  • May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
  • June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
  • November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1923 » Samuel Willenberg, Polish-Israeli sculptor and painter († 2016)
• 1926 » John Schlesinger, English actor and director († 2003)
• 1926 » Margot Frank, German-Dutch holocaust victim († 1945)
• 1927 » June Brown, English actress
• 1929 » Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer and architect († 1980)
• 1929 » Peter Porter, Australian-English poet and educator († 2010)