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Birthday February 25, 1928

• The temperature on February 25, 1928 was between -0.1 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
  • April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • 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).
  • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • November 12 » SSVestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
  • November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, Japanese-Turkish mathematician and academic; developed algebraic number theory († 2003)
• 1927 » Ralph Stanley, American bluegrass singer and banjo player; member of International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame († 2016)
• 1928 » A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., prominent African-American civil rights advocate, author, and federal court judge († 1998)
• 1928 » Larry Gelbart, American author and screenwriter; creator and producer of M*A*S*H TV series († 2009)
• 1928 » Paul Elvstrøm, Danish yachtsman; winner of four Olympic gold medals, 1948–1960 († 2016)
• 1928 » Richard G. Stern, American author and academic († 2013)