Bißmeyer-Bissmeyer-Bismeyer-Bismeijer Family » No Name Ligtenberg (1927)

Birthday January 13, 1927

• The temperature on January 13, 1927 was between 1.1 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
  • April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
  • May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
  • September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
  • October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
  • December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
  • December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic († 2003)
• 1926 » Melba Liston, American trombonist and composer († 1999)
• 1926 » Michael Bond, English soldier and author, created Paddington Bear († 2017)
• 1927 » Brock Adams, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Transportation († 2004)
• 1927 » Liz Anderson, American singer-songwriter († 2011)
• 1927 » Sydney Brenner, South African biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2019)