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Personal data Johannes Smits 


Household of Johannes Smits

(1) He is married to Elisabeth Spanbroek.

They got married on May 4, 1894 at Beuningen, he was 27 years old.


Child(ren):

  3. Petrus Hendrikus Smits  1898-1951 
  4. Hendrikus Smits  1900-1971
  5. Lambertus Smits  1901-1902
  6. Lambertus Smits  1902-1950
  7. Jacobus Smits  1906-1954
  8. Johannes Smits  1908-1959


(2) He is married to Mathilda Pauwels.

They got married on February 21, 1938 at Nijmegen, he was 70 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday April 29, 1867

  • The temperature on April 29, 1867 was about 10.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
  • In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
    • June 8 » Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
    • June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
    • August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
    • December 4 » Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
    • December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.

Day of marriage February 21, 1938

  • The temperature on February 21, 1938 was between -3.2 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
    • July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
    • August 18 » The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
    • October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
    • October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
    • October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
    • November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

Day of death November 24, 1938

  • The temperature on November 24, 1938 was between 2.4 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
    • February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
    • May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
    • July 3 » World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58km/h).
    • October 1 » Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
    • November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
    • December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.


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