Genealogy Pot en Smit » JACQUELINE HENDRIKA SMIT (1877-1918)

Day of marriage February 10, 1915

• The average temperature on February 10, 1915 was 3.1 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
  • January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
  • 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 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
  • September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
  • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

Day of death November 26, 1918

• The temperature on November 26, 1918 was between 2.1 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 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 Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Finnish Civil War: The Red Guard rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki; members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
  • February 5 » Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
  • July 17 » The RMSCarpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SMU-55; five lives are lost.
  • August 13 » Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
  • October 1 » World War I: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force captures Damascus.
  • December 28 » Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Joachim III of Constantinople (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Elsie Inglis, Scottish surgeon and suffragette (b. 1864)
• 1919 » Felipe Ángeles, Mexican general (b. 1868)
• 1926 » John Browning, American weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company (b. 1855)
• 1928 » Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (b. 1863)
• 1929 » John Cockburn, Scottish-Australian politician, 18th Premier of South Australia († 1929)