Eijsermans family tree » Wilhelmus Johannes van Gestel (1927-)

Birthday August 8, 1927

• The temperature on August 8, 1927 was between 14.7 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
  • April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
  • May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
  • June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
  • 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 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » Alija Izetbegović, Bosnian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina († 2003)
• 1925 » Aziz Sattar, Malaysian actor, comedian, singer and director († 2014)
• 1926 » Richard Anderson, American actor and producer († 2017)
• 1927 » Johnny Temple, American baseball player and coach († 1994)
• 1927 » Maia Wojciechowska, Polish-American author († 2002)
• 1928 » Don Burrows, Australian saxophonist, clarinet player, and flute player († 2020)