Family tree Weening » Frank Smits (1917-1999)
Personal data Frank Smits
- He was born on March 29, 1917 in Des Moines Township, Jasper County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten.
- He died on October 25, 1999 in Colorado, Verenigde Staten, he was 82 years old.Source 1
- A child of Goris Smits and Sytske Merkus
- This information was last updated on February 8, 2023.
Household of Frank Smits
He is married to Esther.
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Birthday March 29, 1917
- The temperature on March 29, 1917 was between 0.4 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
- March 16 » World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
- April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
- November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
- November 20 » World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
- November 26 » The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
- December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.
Day of death October 25, 1999
- The temperature on October 25, 1999 was between 10.9 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1999: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
- January 19 » British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
- April 14 » NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
- April 23 » NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia, as part of their aerial campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- May 6 » The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
- November 8 » Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.
- December 3 » NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
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- 1999 » Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957)
- 2000 » Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander (b. 1909)
- 2002 » Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician (b. 1944)
- 2002 » René Thom, French mathematician and biologist (b. 1923)
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