Belling Line Family Tree » Vernon Elmer Ellingson (1927-2000)

Birthday March 29, 1927

• The temperature on March 29, 1927 was between 0.1 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
  • April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
  • 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.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
  • August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
  • September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Moshe Sanbar, Hungarian-Israeli banker and economist († 2012)
• 1927 » John McLaughlin, American journalist and producer († 2016)
• 1927 » John Vane, English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1928 » Keith Botsford, Belgian-American journalist, author, and academic († 2018)
• 1928 » Romesh Bhandari, Pakistani-Indian politician, 13th Foreign Secretary of India († 2013)
• 1928 » Vincent Gigante, American boxer and mobster († 2005)