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Personal data Gerrit Smits 


Household of Gerrit Smits

(1) He is married to Catharina de Bresser.

They got married on September 27, 1915 at Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, he was 29 years old.Source 1


Child(ren):

  1. (Not public)
  3. Adriana Maria Smits  1917-1919


(2) He is married to Adriana van den Bragt.

They got married on October 11, 1920 at Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, he was 34 years old.Source 1


Child(ren):

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  3. (Not public)
  5. Johannes Smits  1926-1971

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Historical events

Birthday March 2, 1886

  • The temperature on March 2, 1886 was about 0.3 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 46 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
    • May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
    • June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
    • June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
    • July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
    • November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.

Day of marriage October 11, 1920

  • The temperature on October 11, 1920 was between 5.6 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
    • February 10 » Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
    • February 14 » The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
    • April 25 » At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
    • August 31 » Polish–Soviet War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
    • October 10 » The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
    • December 19 » King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.

Day of death November 4, 1979

  • The temperature on November 4, 1979 was between 7.4 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 11.1 mm of rain during 8.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
    • March 25 » The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
    • April 4 » Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
    • July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
    • November 3 » Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
    • November 15 » A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
    • November 30 » Pink Floyd's rock opera, The Wall is released.


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