Genealogy Waardenburg » Edwin Eddy Buitenman (1927-1990)

Birthday November 24, 1927

• The temperature on November 24, 1927 was between -1.0 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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.
  • January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
  • January 11 » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
  • May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
  • May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
  • June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)
• 1925 » William F. Buckley, Jr., American publisher and author, founded the National Review († 2008)
• 1926 » Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1927 » Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian-French author and playwright († 2003)
• 1927 » Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor († 1999)
• 1927 » Kevin Skinner, New Zealand rugby player († 2014)