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Birthday January 20, 1927

• The temperature on January 20, 1927 was between -1.2 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
  • April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
  • May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
  • September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
  • September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet, and politician († 2020)
• 1925 » Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic († 2015)
• 1926 » David Tudor, American pianist and composer († 1996)
• 1926 » Patricia Neal, American actress († 2010)
• 1927 » Qurratulain Hyder, Indian-Pakistani journalist and academic († 2007)
• 1928 » Antonio de Almeida, French conductor and musicologist († 1997)