Dagosto/Dimirra/Weckerle/Kuhn Family Tree » Frances M Felten (1927-1982)

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.
  • January 7 » The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
  • April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
  • 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 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
  • November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1928 » Romesh Bhandari, Pakistani-Indian politician, 13th Foreign Secretary of India († 2013)
• 1928 » Vincent Gigante, American boxer and mobster († 2005)