Family tree Klavers » Christina Bruggenkamp (1927-< 2024)

Birthday July 18, 1927

• The temperature on July 18, 1927 was between 11.7 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
  • April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
  • July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
  • September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
  • September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.

Source: Wikipedia

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