Family tree Klavers » Gerrit Lanting (1928-< 2024)

Birthday January 21, 1928

• The temperature on January 21, 1928 was between 3.4 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. 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 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.
  • May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
  • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
  • October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Clive Donner, British director († 2010)
• 1926 » Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer († 1980)
• 1927 » Rudolf Kraus, German footballer († 2003)
• 1928 » Gene Sharp, American political scientist and academic, founded the Albert Einstein Institution († 2018)
• 1928 » Reynaldo Bignone, Argentinian general and politician, 41st President of Argentina († 2018)
• 1929 » Radley Metzger, American filmmaker († 2017)