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Birthday December 24, 1927

• The temperature on December 24, 1927 was between 1.2 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
  • March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
  • April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
  • May 20 » Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1924 » Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somalian soldier and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Somalia († 2014)
• 1924 » Lee Dorsey, American singer-songwriter († 1986)
• 1927 » Mary Higgins Clark, American author († 2020)
• 1928 » Lev Vlassenko, Georgian-Australian pianist and educator († 1996)
• 1929 » Lennart Skoglund, Swedish footballer († 1975)
• 1929 » Philip Ziegler, English historian and author