Dreyer Tree » Isabella Magrietha Steyn (1928-1957)

Birthday February 16, 1928

• The temperature on February 16, 1928 was between 9.2 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 1928: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
  • January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
  • May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » John Schlesinger, English actor and director († 2003)
• 1926 » Margot Frank, German-Dutch holocaust victim († 1945)
• 1927 » June Brown, English actress
• 1929 » Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer and architect († 1980)
• 1929 » Peter Porter, Australian-English poet and educator († 2010)
• 1931 » Otis Blackwell, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2002)