De bomen van Kreijkes » Antonij Leemhuis (1864-1927)

Day of death November 26, 1927

• The temperature on November 26, 1927 was between -1.5 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
  • April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
  • May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
  • August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
  • September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
  • December 19 » Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Felipe Ángeles, Mexican general (b. 1868)
• 1926 » John Browning, American weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company (b. 1855)
• 1928 » Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (b. 1863)
• 1929 » John Cockburn, Scottish-Australian politician, 18th Premier of South Australia († 1929)
• 1934 » Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and politician (b. 1866)
• 1936 » Şükrü Naili Gökberk, Turkish general (b. 1876)