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Birthday January 2, 1927

• The temperature on January 2, 1927 was between 4.9 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
  • May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1920 » Isaac Asimov, American writer and professor of biochemistry († 1992)
• 1921 » Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player († 2007)
• 1926 » Gino Marchetti, American football player († 2019)
• 1928 » Dan Rostenkowski, American politician († 2010)
• 1929 » Tellervo Koivisto, Finnish politician, former First Lady of Finland
• 1931 » Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese lawyer and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Japan