Descendants Heeres » NN Eilander (1927)

Birthday June 13, 1927

• The temperature on June 13, 1927 was between 11.4 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
  • May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
  • August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
  • October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
  • December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
  • December 30 » The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist († 1994)
• 1926 » Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian († 1982)
• 1927 » Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2003)
• 1928 » Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal († 2015)
• 1928 » John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2015)
• 1928 » Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist († 2009)