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Birthday March 5, 1927

• The temperature on March 5, 1927 was between 5.7 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 15 » The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
  • 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 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
  • July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
  • November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1924 » Roger Marche, French footballer († 1997)
• 1927 » Jack Cassidy, American actor and singer († 1976)
• 1927 » Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, Scottish businessman and politician
• 1928 » J. Hillis Miller, American academic and critic
• 1929 » Erik Carlsson, Swedish race car driver († 2015)
• 1929 » J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1967)