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Personal data Derk Smits 

  • He was born in the year 1877 in Vlagtwedde Groningen Nederland.
  • He died on October 27, 1942 in Vlagtwedde Groningen Nederland, he was 65 years old.
    Tijdstip: 17:30
  • Death registration on October 28, 1942.
    Event shared with Edo Teijen (witness)
  • A child of Geert Smits and Harmke Jansen
  • This information was last updated on July 30, 2010.

Household of Derk Smits

Waarschuwing Attention: Wife (Geertje Meijer) is also his cousin.

He is married to Geertje Meijer.

They got married on June 26, 1915 at Vlagtwedde Groningen Nederland, he was 38 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Jacob Smits  1919-1941
  2. Harm Smits  1922-1943

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Derk Smits

Geert Berends Smits
1810-1887
Hillegien Jan Kremer
1819-????
Dirk Jans Klaassens
1810-1891
Antje Harms Prenger
1814-1860
Geert Smits
1850-1924
Harmke Jansen
1850-1936

Derk Smits
1877-1942

1915

Geertje Meijer
1882-????

Jacob Smits
1919-1941
Harm Smits
1922-1943
Elsiena Harmke Smits
1924-1945

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Historical events

Day of marriage June 26, 1915

  • The temperature on June 26, 1915 was between 10.9 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
    • January 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
    • 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.
    • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
    • May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
    • May 24 » World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.

Day of death October 27, 1942

  • The temperature on October 27, 1942 was between 6.2 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • May 3 » World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
    • July 10 » World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
    • August 7 » World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
    • August 23 » World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
    • August 26 » At Chortkiv, the Ukrainian police and German Schutzpolizei deport two thousand Jews to Bełżec extermination camp. Five hundred of the sick and children are murdered on the spot. This continued until the next day.
    • November 8 » World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.


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