Family tree Decloedt » Julien Etienne (Julien, Etienne) VANDE POPULIERE (1928-2019)

Birthday May 6, 1928

• The temperature on May 6, 1928 was between 5.8 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
  • 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 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
  • October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
  • November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Gilles Grégoire, Canadian politician, co-founded the Parti Québécois († 2006)
• 1929 » John Taylor, English bishop and theologian († 2016)
• 1929 » Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2007)
• 1929 » Rosemary Cramp, English archaeologist and academic
• 1931 » Louis Gambaccini, American government official († 2018)
• 1931 » Willie Mays, American baseball player and coach