Family tree Ham en Dallinga » James Stanley (Jim) Yonker (1928-2020)

Birthday July 28, 1928

• The temperature on July 28, 1928 was between 9.0 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 15.0 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
  • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
  • October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
  • December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Charlie Biddle, American-Canadian bassist († 2003)
• 1927 » John Ashbery, American poet († 2017)
• 1929 » Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist and socialite, 37th First Lady of the United States († 1994)
• 1929 » Shirley Ann Grau, American novelist and short story writer
• 1930 » Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer († 2014)
• 1930 » Junior Kimbrough, American singer and guitarist († 1998)