Family tree Van Walleghem Huyghe (België) » Lucien Maurice Mandeville (1928-2019)

Birthday May 11, 1928

• The temperature on May 11, 1928 was between -1.4 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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.
  • 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.
  • September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
  • September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
  • October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
  • 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

• 1924 » Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1925 » Edward J. King, American football player and politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts († 2006)
• 1927 » Bernard Fox, British actor († 2016)
• 1927 » Gene Savoy, American explorer, author, and scholar († 2007)
• 1930 » Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic († 2002)
• 1930 » Stanley Elkin, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist († 1995)