Genealogy Pot en Smit » NEELTJE SMIT (1882-1957)

Day of marriage September 7, 1911

• The temperature on September 7, 1911 was between 8.7 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
  • April 6 » During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
  • April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
  • May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  • July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".

Day of death September 3, 1957

• The temperature on September 3, 1957 was between 5.8 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
  • March 4 » The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
  • March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
  • July 29 » The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
  • August 28 » U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
  • September 24 » President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
  • October 14 » At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1948 » Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
• 1954 » Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
• 1962 » E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright (b. 1907)
• 1967 » Francis Ouimet, American golfer and banker (b. 1893)