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Birthday February 28, 1928

• The temperature on February 28, 1928 was between 0.7 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
  • October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
  • November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
  • December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1928 » Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and producer († 1976)
• 1928 » Sylvia del Villard, actress, dancer, choreographer and Afro-Puerto Rican activist († 1990)
• 1928 » Tom Aldredge, American actor († 2011)
• 1929 » Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect, designed 8 Spruce Street and Walt Disney Concert Hall
• 1929 » Hayden Fry, American football player and coach († 2019)
• 1929 » John Montague, American-Irish poet and academic († 2016)