Genealogy Pot en Smit » JOHANNA SMIT (1911-1997)

Day of marriage August 7, 1970

• The temperature on August 7, 1970 was between 14.1 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1970: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
  • August 24 » Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
  • September 4 » Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
  • September 7 » Fighting begins between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Jordan.
  • October 8 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
  • October 26 » Muhammad Ali boxes for the first time after Ali's three-year hiatus due to draft evasion.
  • November 4 » Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.

Day of death December 26, 1997

• The temperature on December 26, 1997 was between 6.2 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
  • February 4 » En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
  • July 20 » The fully restored USSConstitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
  • July 27 » About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
  • October 25 » After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
  • December 22 » Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.

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• 1996 » JonBenét Ramsey, American child beauty queen and prominent unsolved murder victim (b. 1990)
• 1997 » Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1910)
• 1997 » Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek economist and philosopher (b. 1922)
• 1998 » Ram Swarup, Indian writer on Hindu philosophy and religion (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
• 1999 » Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian academic and politician, 9th President of India (b. 1918)