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Birthday November 18, 1928

• The temperature on November 18, 1928 was between 5.7 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). 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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
  • April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • 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 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
  • November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1928 » Sheila Jordan, American singer-songwriter and pianist
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