Family tree Verloop » Dirk SMIT (1872-1946)

Day of marriage July 4, 1907

• The temperature on July 4, 1907 was between 10.0 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1907: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.6 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
  • June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
  • July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
  • August 31 » Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Anglo-Russian Convention, by which the UK recognizes Russian preeminence in northern Persia, while Russia recognizes British preeminence in southeastern Persia and Afghanistan. Both powers pledge not to interfere in Tibet.
  • November 16 » Cunard Line's RMSMauretania, sister ship of RMSLusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • December 8 » King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.

Day of death February 15, 1946

• The temperature on February 15, 1946 was between 5.5 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
  • February 8 » The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
  • April 29 » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
  • May 5 » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
  • July 1 » Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.
  • December 19 » Start of the First Indochina War.
  • December 25 » The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1932 » Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (b. 1865)
• 1933 » Pat Sullivan, Australian animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat (b. 1887)
• 1935 » Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter and author (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French lawyer and politician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)