Dreyer Tree » Johan Diederick Smit (1874-1947)

Personal data Johan Diederick Smit 

  • He was born in the year 1874.
  • He died on September 3, 1947 in Kimberley Cape South Africa, he was 73 years old.

Household of Johan Diederick Smit

He is married to Maria Petronella Uys.

They got married on March 21, 1921 at Kimberley Cape South Africa, he was 47 years old.

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Historical events

Day of death September 3, 1947

  • The temperature on September 3, 1947 was between 10.7 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
    • April 9 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to Corfu Channel incident is adopted.
    • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
    • August 15 » India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
    • November 13 » The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
    • November 17 » American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
    • December 2 » Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.


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