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Birthday January 13, 1928

• The temperature on January 13, 1928 was between 4.1 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
  • October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
  • October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
  • October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic († 2003)
• 1926 » Michael Bond, English soldier and author, created Paddington Bear († 2017)
• 1927 » Brock Adams, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Transportation († 2004)
• 1927 » Liz Anderson, American singer-songwriter († 2011)
• 1927 » Sydney Brenner, South African biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2019)
• 1929 » Joe Pass, American guitarist and composer († 1994)