Genealogy familie Bos » Nn Snippe (1928-1928)

Birthday March 6, 1928

• The temperature on March 6, 1928 was between -4.6 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
  • January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
  • March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
  • April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
  • November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Ann Curtis, American swimmer († 2012)
• 1927 » Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 2014)
• 1927 » Gordon Cooper, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut († 2004)
• 1927 » William J. Bell, American screenwriter and producer († 2005)
• 1929 » David Sheppard, English cricketer and bishop († 2005)
• 1929 » Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 2013)