Genealogy Pot en Smit » KORNELIS PUTTEN SMIT (1861-1905)

Day of marriage January 28, 1904

• The temperature on January 28, 1904 was between 3.5 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
  • February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
  • February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
  • April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
  • June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
  • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

Day of death December 26, 1905

• The temperature on December 26, 1905 was between -2.3 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
  • February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
  • April 4 » In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.
  • September 23 » Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
  • October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
  • December 11 » A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1890 » Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1923 » Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
• 1929 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)