Family tree Janssen-Oliemans-Schoenmaker-Sprong » Johannes Franciscus Marie Sprong (1926-1976)

Birthday August 30, 1926

• The temperature on August 30, 1926 was between 10.8 °C and 25.9 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
  • May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
  • June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
  • June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
  • July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
  • August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » Donald Symington, American actor († 2013)
• 1925 » Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator
• 1926 » Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program († 2010)
• 1927 » Bill Daily, American actor and comedian († 2018)
• 1927 » Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer († 2004)
• 1927 » Piet Kee, Dutch organist and composer (d.2018)