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Birthday January 12, 1927

• The temperature on January 12, 1927 was between 4.0 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (58%). 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.
  • January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
  • 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.
  • May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
  • July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
  • September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
  • October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1926 » Morton Feldman, American composer and academic († 1987)
• 1926 » Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2013)
• 1928 » Ruth Brown, American R&B singer-songwriter and actress († 2006)
• 1929 » Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish-American philosopher and academic
• 1929 » Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician († 2015)