Family tree Klavers » Gerhardus Kampman (1927-< 2024)

Birthday May 22, 1927

• The temperature on May 22, 1927 was between 7.4 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
  • January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
  • May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
  • September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
  • October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1927 » George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2017)
• 1927 » Michael Constantine, American actor
• 1927 » Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review († 2014)
• 1928 » John Mackenzie, Scottish director and producer († 2011)
• 1928 » Serge Doubrovsky, French theorist and author († 2017)
• 1928 » T. Boone Pickens, American businessman († 2019)