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Birthday June 15, 1928

• The temperature on June 15, 1928 was between 8.2 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
  • June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
  • October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
  • November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
  • December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Alfred Duraiappah, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician († 1975)
• 1927 » Hugo Pratt, Italian author and illustrator († 1995)
• 1927 » Ibn-e-Insha, Indian-Pakistani poet and author († 1978)
• 1927 » Ross Andru, American illustrator († 1993)
• 1930 » Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 2015)
• 1930 » Miguel Méndez, American author and academic († 2013)