Genealogy Pot en Smit » ALIDA SMIT (1924-2013)

Day of marriage August 17, 1944

• The temperature on August 17, 1944 was between 15.2 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
  • March 5 » World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
  • June 26 » World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.
  • November 3 » World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
  • November 16 » World War II: Operation Queen, the costly Allied thrust to the Rur, is launched.
  • December 15 » World War II: a single-engine UC-64A Norseman aeroplane carrying United States Army Air Forces Major Glenn Miller is lost in a flight over the English Channel.
  • December 18 » World War II: Seventy-seven B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.

Day of death November 18, 2013

• The temperature on November 18, 2013 was between 3.8 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • April 18 » A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.
  • May 25 » Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
  • June 7 » A gunman opens fire at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, after setting a house on fire nearby, killing six people, including the suspect.
  • August 21 » Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.
  • October 15 » The 7.2 M_w Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 die.
  • November 21 » Fifty-four people are killed when the roof of a shopping center collapses in Riga, Latvia.

Day of burial November 23, 2013

• The temperature on November 23, 2013 was between 0.4 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • January 10 » More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
  • February 8 » A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
  • April 17 » An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
  • April 29 » National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing seven people.
  • September 6 » Forty one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.
  • November 21 » Massive protests start in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych suspended signing the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2012 » Emilio Aragón Bermúdez, Spanish clown, singer, and accordion player (b. 1929)
• 2012 » Phoebe Hearst Cooke, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1927)
• 2013 » Ljubomir Vračarević, Serbian martial artist, founded Real Aikido (b. 1947)
• 2013 » Peter Wintonick, Canadian director and producer (b. 1953)
• 2013 » S. R. D. Vaidyanathan, Indian nadaswaram player and composer (b. 1929)
• 2013 » Thomas Howard, American football player (b. 1983)