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Birthday March 8, 1927

• The temperature on March 8, 1927 was between 4.1 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • 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).
  • May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
  • July 4 » First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
  • September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
  • December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
  • December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1924 » Anthony Caro, English sculptor and illustrator († 2013)
• 1924 » Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2010)
• 1925 » Warren Bennis, American scholar, author, and academic († 2014)
• 1926 » Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter († 2001)
• 1927 » Ramon Revilla Sr., Filipino actor and politician († 2020)
• 1929 » Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress and singer († 2012)