Kennedy Family Tree » Frank Walter Peterson (1911-)

Birthday August 28, 1911

• The temperature on August 28, 1911 was between 13.8 °C and 27.8 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
  • April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
  • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  • September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
  • October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
  • December 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1910 » Morris Graves, American painter and academic († 2001)
• 1910 » Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1911 » Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO († 2002)
• 1913 » Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation († 2009)
• 1913 » Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer and sportscaster († 1993)
• 1913 » Robertson Davies, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright († 1995)