Family tree Schepers-Bergmans » Christianus Petrus "Sjaan" Verdult (1924-2022)

Birthday January 28, 1924

• The temperature on January 28, 1924 was between -0.8 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
  • February 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
  • June 26 » The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
  • July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
  • August 4 » Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1921 » Vytautas Norkus, Lithuanian–American basketball player († 2014)
• 1922 » Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer, co-founded Anna Records († 2014)
• 1922 » Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1993)
• 1924 » Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet († 1976)
• 1925 » Raja Ramanna, Indian physicist and politician († 2004)
• 1926 » Jimmy Bryan, American race car driver († 1960)