Genealogy Pot en Smit » GRIETJE SMIT (1894-1968)

Day of marriage October 29, 1915

• The temperature on October 29, 1915 was between 3.7 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
  • April 25 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
  • May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
  • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
  • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).

Day of death June 21, 1968

• The temperature on June 21, 1968 was between 10.7 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 10.0 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • July 20 » The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
  • July 23 » Glenville shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
  • September 30 » The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
  • October 12 » Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
  • November 27 » Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.
  • December 25 » Kilvenmani massacre: Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) are burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1964 » Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
• 1964 » James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
• 1967 » Theodore Sizer, American professor of the history of art (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
• 1970 » Piers Courage, English race car driver (b. 1942)
• 1970 » Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (b. 1901)