Family tree Klavers » Johanna Drenth (1928-< 2024)

Birthday January 9, 1928

• The temperature on January 9, 1928 was between 2.7 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
  • April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • 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).
  • October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
  • October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » Len Quested, English footballer defender and manager († 2012)
• 1926 » Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian lawyer and politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 2002)
• 1928 » Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and politician († 1994)
• 1928 » Judith Krantz, American novelist († 2019)
• 1929 » Brian Friel, Irish author, playwright, and director († 2015)
• 1929 » Heiner Müller, German poet, playwright, and director († 1995)