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Personal data Millard Leroy Smith 

Source 1
  • He was born on October 29, 1886 in Medina, Medina County, Ohio, United States of America.Source 1
  • He died on May 24, 1978 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, United States of America, he was 91 years old.Source 1
  • He is buried in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, United States of America.Source 1

Household of Millard Leroy Smith

He has/had a relationship with Adelaide Pearl Frost.

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Sources

  1. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

Historical events

  • The temperature on October 29, 1886 was about 14.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
    • June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
    • June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
    • July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
    • October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
    • November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
  • The temperature on May 24, 1978 was between 9.0 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
    • March 16 » Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
    • July 30 » The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
    • September 8 » Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 700–3000 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran.
    • October 16 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
    • November 27 » In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
    • December 22 » The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1879 » Alva B. Adams, American lawyer and politician († 1941)
  • 1880 » Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic († 1960)
  • 1881 » John DeWitt, American football player and hammer thrower († 1930)
  • 1882 » Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright († 1944)
  • 1883 » Victor Hochepied, French swimmer and water polo player († 1966)
  • 1891 » Fanny Brice, American actress and singer († 1951)

Source: Wikipedia


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