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Birthday April 9, 1928

• The temperature on April 9, 1928 was between 4.8 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
  • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
  • October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
  • November 18 » Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
  • November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
  • 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

• 1927 » Tiny Hill, New Zealand rugby player († 2019)
• 1928 » Paul Arizin, American basketball player († 2006)
• 1928 » Tom Lehrer, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and mathematician
• 1929 » Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist († 1993)
• 1929 » Paule Marshall, American author and academic († 2019)
• 1929 » Sharan Rani Backliwal, Indian sarod player and scholar († 2008)