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Birthday September 30, 1928

• The temperature on September 30, 1928 was between 3.1 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
  • April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
  • October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
  • October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
  • 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 » W. S. Merwin, American poet and translator († 2019)
• 1928 » Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2016)
• 1928 » Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach († 2013)
• 1929 » Carol Fenner, American author and illustrator († 2002)
• 1929 » Leticia Ramos-Shahani, Filipino politician, diplomat and writer († 2017)
• 1929 » Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist and academic