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Birthday January 1, 1927

• The temperature on January 1, 1927 was between 3.5 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
  • 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.
  • August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
  • August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
  • September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
  • October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Kazys Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach († 2008)
• 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)