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Birthday November 24, 1927

• The temperature on November 24, 1927 was between -1.0 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
  • December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
  • December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
  • December 30 » The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)
• 1925 » William F. Buckley, Jr., American publisher and author, founded the National Review († 2008)
• 1926 » Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1927 » Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian-French author and playwright († 2003)
• 1927 » Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor († 1999)
• 1927 » Kevin Skinner, New Zealand rugby player († 2014)