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Birthday January 1, 1928

• The average temperature on January 1, 1928 was -1.6 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
  • April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
  • November 12 » SSVestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
  • December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1927 » Doak Walker, American football player and businessman († 1998)
• 1927 » James Reeb, American clergyman and political activist († 1965)
• 1927 » Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director († 2007)
• 1927 » Vernon L. Smith, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1928 » Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1928 » Gerhard Weinberg, German-American historian, author, and academic