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Birthday May 27, 1929

• The temperature on May 27, 1929 was between 14.2 °C and 28.7 °C and averaged 21.4 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
  • February 14 » Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
  • August 23 » Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
  • October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
  • November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
  • December 3 » President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1927 » Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist († 1996)
• 1928 » Thea Musgrave, Scottish-American composer and educator
• 1930 » Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer and educator († 2010)
• 1930 » John Barth, American novelist and short story writer
• 1930 » William S. Sessions, American civil servant and judge, 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 1931 » André Barbeau, French-Canadian neurologist († 1986)