Family tree Morseld-Ten Cate » Gerrit Wijnand Timmer (1928-2008)

Birthday February 20, 1928

• The temperature on February 20, 1928 was between 4.2 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
  • 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).
  • December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1927 » Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer and musician († 2005)
• 1927 » Roy Cohn, American lawyer and political activist († 1986)
• 1927 » Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat
• 1928 » Jean Kennedy Smith, American diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to Ireland
• 1928 » Roy Face, American baseball player and carpenter
• 1929 » Amanda Blake, American actress († 1989)