Bartlett - Poltock - van Doorne family forebears » Betty Alexandra Rolfe (1927-2022)

Birthday June 23, 1927

• The temperature on June 23, 1927 was between 6.7 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 9.2 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 4 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.
  • February 23 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
  • April 23 » Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
  • July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
  • August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
  • October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
  • November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Annette Mbaye d'Erneville, Senegalese writer
• 1926 » Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor
• 1926 » Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, English microbiologist and parasitologist († 2017)
• 1926 » Magda Herzberger, Romanian author, poet and composer, survivor of the Holocaust
• 1927 » Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director († 1987)
• 1927 » John Habgood, Baron Habgood, English archbishop († 2019)