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Birthday August 24, 1926

• The temperature on August 24, 1926 was between 12.4 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
  • May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
  • June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
  • August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
  • August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
  • October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime

Source: Wikipedia

• 1924 » Alyn Ainsworth, English singer and conductor († 1990)
• 1924 » Louis Teicher, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher) († 2008)
• 1926 » Nancy Spero, American painter and academic († 2009)
• 1927 » Anjali Devi, Indian actress and producer († 2014)
• 1927 » David Ireland, Australian author and playwright
• 1927 » Harry Markowitz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate