Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Levenloos Schuiteman (1928-)

Birthday March 29, 1928

• The temperature on March 29, 1928 was between -0.8 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
  • April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
  • November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
  • 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.
  • November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1927 » John McLaughlin, American journalist and producer († 2016)
• 1927 » John Vane, English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1928 » Keith Botsford, Belgian-American journalist, author, and academic († 2018)
• 1928 » Romesh Bhandari, Pakistani-Indian politician, 13th Foreign Secretary of India († 2013)
• 1928 » Vincent Gigante, American boxer and mobster († 2005)
• 1929 » Sheila Kitzinger, English activist, author, and academic († 2015)