More like a forest than a tree! » Lancelot Ronald COLE (1928-< 2021)

Birthday January 8, 1928

• The temperature on January 8, 1928 was between 1.9 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
  • October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
  • October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
  • October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
  • December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano († 2012)
• 1927 » Charles Tomlinson, English poet and academic († 2015)
• 1928 » Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and author († 1996)
• 1928 » Luther Perkins, American country guitarist († 1968)
• 1928 » Slade Gorton, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 14th Attorney General of Washington
• 1929 » Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor († 2015)