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Birthday February 15, 1927

• The temperature on February 15, 1927 was between -1.0 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
  • January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
  • March 15 » The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
  • May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
  • July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
  • September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » Angella D. Ferguson, American pediatrician
• 1927 » Frank Dunlop, English actor and director
• 1927 » Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian († 2008)
• 1927 » Yehoshua Neuwirth, Israeli rabbi and scholar († 2013)
• 1928 » Joseph Willcox Jenkins, American composer, conductor, and educator († 2014)
• 1928 » Norman Bridwell, American author and illustrator, created Clifford the Big Red Dog († 2014)