Family tree Weening » Jan van der Laan (± 1925-1927)

Day of death March 25, 1927

• The temperature on March 25, 1927 was between 3.0 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • January 7 » The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
  • January 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
  • May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
  • June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
  • September 5 » The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
  • December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
• 1918 » Peter Martin, Australian footballer and soldier (b. 1875)
• 1927 » Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Palestinian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (b. 1843)
• 1931 » Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1890)
• 1931 » Ida B. Wells, American journalist and activist (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter (b.1845)