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Birthday January 27, 1928

• The temperature on January 27, 1928 was between -0.7 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (52%). 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
  • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
  • October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
  • October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
  • November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Fritz Spiegl, Austrian flute player and journalist († 2003)
• 1926 » Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress († 2004)
• 1928 » Hans Modrow, Polish-German lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of East Germany
• 1928 » Michael Craig, Indian-English actor and screenwriter
• 1929 » Gastón Suárez, Bolivian author and playwright († 1984)
• 1929 » Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian-Swiss businessman