Genealogy De Vos-Verschuur » dg Suijkerbuijk (1928-1928)

Birthday September 4, 1928

• The temperature on September 4, 1928 was between 8.9 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
  • September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
  • October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
  • November 12 » SSVestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
  • December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » George William Gray, British chemist who developed liquid crystals that made displays possible († 2013)
• 1927 » Ferenc Sánta, Hungarian author and screenwriter († 2008)
• 1927 » John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic († 2011)
• 1928 » Dick York, American actor († 1992)
• 1929 » Robert V. Keeley, Lebanese-American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Greece († 2015)
• 1929 » Thomas Eagleton, American lawyer and politician, 38th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri († 2007)