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Birthday February 6, 1927

• The temperature on February 6, 1927 was between 1.0 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 8.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 7 » The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
  • April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
  • May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
  • July 4 » First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
  • August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
  • October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » Walker Edmiston, American actor and puppeteer († 2007)
• 1927 » Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist and astronomer († 1992)
• 1928 » Allan H. Meltzer, American economist and academic († 2017)
• 1929 » Colin Murdoch, New Zealand pharmacist and veterinarian, invented the tranquilliser gun († 2008)
• 1929 » Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan author and critic († 2011)
• 1929 » Valentin Yanin, Russian historian and author († 2020)