Family tree Klavers » Fedde Willem Bakker (1926-< 2025)

Birthday January 29, 1926

• The temperature on January 29, 1926 was between 4.3 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 8.9 mm of rain. 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
  • March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
  • April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
  • May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
  • September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
  • October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1923 » Jack Burke Jr., American golfer
• 1923 » Paddy Chayefsky, American author and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1926 » Abdus Salam, Pakistani-British physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)
• 1926 » Amelita Ramos, 11th First Lady of the Philippines
• 1927 » Edward Abbey, American environmentalist and author († 1989)
• 1929 » Elio Petri, Italian director and screenwriter († 1982)