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Birthday January 6, 1927

• The temperature on January 6, 1927 was between 4.3 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
  • March 29 » Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
  • 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.
  • April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
  • August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1924 » Kim Dae-jung, South Korean soldier and politician, 8th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)
• 1925 » John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company († 2005)
• 1926 » Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder († 2006)
• 1926 » Ralph Branca, American baseball player († 2016)
• 1927 » Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States († 2014)
• 1928 » Capucine, French actress and model († 1990)