Dagosto/Dimirra/Weckerle/Kuhn Family Tree » Dorothy Louise Spreitler (1927-1984)

Birthday May 2, 1927

• The temperature on May 2, 1927 was between 3.1 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
  • September 5 » The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
  • September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1927 » Michael Broadbent, British wine critic and writer († 2020)
• 1927 » Ray Barrett, Australian actor and singer († 2009)
• 1928 » Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, French writer and translator of German origin
• 1928 » Hans Trass, Estonian ecologist and botanist († 2017)