Family tree Klavers » Hermann Heinrich Pragt (1928-< 2024)

Birthday January 6, 1928

• The temperature on January 6, 1928 was between 1.7 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 8.9 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
  • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
  • October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
  • November 12 » SSVestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
  • November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company († 2005)
• 1926 » Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder († 2006)
• 1926 » Ralph Branca, American baseball player († 2016)
• 1927 » Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States († 2014)
• 1928 » Capucine, French actress and model († 1990)
• 1931 » E. L. Doctorow, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer († 2015)