Genealogy Pot en Smit » JENNY CORNELIA SMIT (1900-1991)

Day of marriage March 15, 1921

• The temperature on March 15, 1921 was between 1.0 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • March 15 » Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
  • March 21 » The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
  • August 23 » British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
  • October 19 » The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.
  • October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
  • November 14 » The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.

Day of death December 6, 1991

• The temperature on December 6, 1991 was between -3.9 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1991: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
  • March 31 » Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
  • August 19 » Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.
  • August 21 » Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940.
  • October 30 » The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.
  • November 28 » South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
  • December 2 » Canada and Poland become the first nations to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1989 » Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1989 » Sammy Fain, American pianist and composer (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 1990 » Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1903)
• 1991 » Mimi Smith, English nurse (b. 1906)
• 1991 » Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)