Todd's of Scotland » Ann Kaigler Banks (1927-2019)

Birthday June 8, 1927

• The temperature on June 8, 1927 was between 7.1 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 12.6 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
  • May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
  • May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
  • May 18 » After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
  • August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1924 » Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player and manager († 2013)
• 1924 » Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist and academic († 2013)
• 1925 » Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States († 2018)
• 1927 » Jerry Stiller, American actor, comedian and producer († 2020)
• 1929 » Nada Inada, Japanese psychiatrist and author († 2013)
• 1930 » Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate