Family tree Diverse » Pieter "Piet" Smits (1912-2001)

Day of marriage August 5, 1937

• The temperature on August 5, 1937 was between 10.7 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
  • January 23 » The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
  • February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
  • May 12 » The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
  • July 7 » The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
  • September 5 » Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
  • October 9 » Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.

Day of death April 11, 2001

• The temperature on April 11, 2001 was between 4.2 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
  • January 20 » President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
  • May 3 » The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
  • May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
  • July 24 » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
  • August 25 » American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
  • October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1997 » Muriel McQueen Fergusson, Canadian lawyer and politician, Canadian Speaker of the Senate (b. 1899)
• 1997 » Wang Xiaobo, contemporary Chinese novelist and essayist (b. 1952)
• 1999 » William H. Armstrong, American author and educator (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Diana Darvey, English actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
• 2001 » Harry Secombe, Welsh-English actor (b. 1921)
• 2003 » Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, founded Texas Instruments (b. 1900)