Noordwijkerhout Van Toen (NoVaTo) » Henriette Adriana van Namen (1928-2000)

Birthday July 24, 1928

• The temperature on July 24, 1928 was between 14.4 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
  • October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
  • November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1927 » Alex Katz, American painter and sculptor
• 1927 » Zara Mints, Russian-Estonian philologist and academic († 1990)
• 1930 » Alfred Balk, American journalist and author († 2010)
• 1930 » Keshubhai Patel, Indian politician, 10th Chief Minister of Gujarat
• 1931 » Éric Tabarly, French commander († 1998)
• 1931 » Ermanno Olmi, Italian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer († 2018)