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Birthday December 31, 1927

• The temperature on December 31, 1927 was between -8.9 °C and -2.4 °C and averaged -5.1 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 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.
  • January 11 » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
  • April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • 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.
  • June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Billy Snedden, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Attorney-General for Australia († 1987)
• 1926 » Valerie Pearl, English historian and academic († 2016)
• 1928 » Ross Barbour, American pop singer († 2011)
• 1928 » Siné, French cartoonist († 2016)
• 1928 » Tatyana Shmyga, Russian actress and singer († 2011)
• 1928 » Veijo Meri, Finnish author and translator († 2015)