Genealogy Pot en Smit » PAULUS de SNOO (1888-1933)

Day of marriage April 28, 1915

• The temperature on April 28, 1915 was between 5.7 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • January 13 » The 6.7 M_w  Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978–32,610.
  • March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
  • March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).
  • September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

Day of death January 15, 1933

• The temperature on January 15, 1933 was between -6.7 °C and -2.3 °C and averaged -4.5 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
  • March 23 » The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
  • April 1 » The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
  • May 17 » Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
  • October 14 » Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.
  • November 7 » Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1929 » George Cope, American painter (b. 1855)
• 1936 » Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, English cricketer and politician, 7th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)
• 1937 » Anton Holban, Romanian author, theoretician, and educator (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (b. 1865)