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Birthday January 11, 1927

• The temperature on January 11, 1927 was between 5.8 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
  • 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.
  • May 18 » After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
  • August 1 » The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
  • August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"

Source: Wikipedia

• 1924 » Roger Guillemin, French-American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1924 » Sam B. Hall, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and politician († 1994)
• 1925 » Grant Tinker, American television producer, co-founded MTM Enterprises († 2016)
• 1926 » Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut († 1998)
• 1928 » David L. Wolper, American director and producer († 2010)
• 1929 » Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect and theorist († 2020)