Stambos van Wijk-Soomers » Deonijsius de Wit (1928-< 2005)

Birthday March 13, 1928

• The temperature on March 13, 1928 was between -6.1 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • 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.
  • September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
  • October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
  • November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
  • November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1923 » Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek general († 2010)
• 1925 » Roy Haynes, American drummer and composer
• 1926 » Carlos Roberto Reina, Honduran lawyer and politician, President of Honduras († 2003)
• 1929 » Zbigniew Messner, Polish economist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland († 2014)
• 1933 » Gero von Wilpert, German author and academic († 2009)
• 1933 » Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist († 2014)