Family tree Klavers » Jan Schaange Wilting (1927-< 2025)

Birthday March 18, 1927

• The temperature on March 18, 1927 was between 1.7 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
  • 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 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 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
  • December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1926 » Peter Graves, American actor and director († 2010)
• 1927 » George Plimpton, American journalist and actor († 2003)
• 1927 » John Kander, American pianist and composer
• 1927 » Lillian Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company († 2015)
• 1928 » Fidel V. Ramos, Filipino general and politician, 12th President of the Philippines
• 1928 » Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist († 2013)