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Birthday March 6, 1927

• The temperature on March 6, 1927 was between 4.7 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
  • August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
  • August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
  • September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
  • November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Alan Greenspan, American economist and politician
• 1926 » Ann Curtis, American swimmer († 2012)
• 1926 » Ray O'Connor, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Western Australia († 2013)
• 1927 » Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 2014)
• 1927 » Gordon Cooper, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut († 2004)
• 1927 » William J. Bell, American screenwriter and producer († 2005)