Andersen Family Tree » Gordon Bennett Ashby (1928-1928)

Birthday May 22, 1928

• The temperature on May 22, 1928 was between 6.8 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 26.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
  • September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
  • October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
  • October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
  • December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1927 » Michael Constantine, American actor
• 1927 » Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review († 2014)
• 1928 » Hiroshi Sano, Japanese novelist († 2013)
• 1928 » John Mackenzie, Scottish director and producer († 2011)
• 1928 » Serge Doubrovsky, French theorist and author († 2017)
• 1928 » T. Boone Pickens, American businessman († 2019)