Family tree Weening » Harm Jan Smits (1891-1961)

Personal data Harm Jan Smits 


Household of Harm Jan Smits

He is married to Jeltje Venema.

They got married on May 15, 1923 at Grootegast (Gr), he was 31 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Jelte Smits  1920-1980
  2. Jan Smits  1925-1975

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Harm Jan Smits

Jan Dirks Smits
1816-1883
Fenne Karstens Pot
1818-1874
Harmen Jans Dijkstra
1814-1887
Aukje Geerts Wiersma
1817-1905
Gerrit Smits
1852-1898

Harm Jan Smits
1891-1961

1923

Jeltje Venema
1900-1956

Jelte Smits
1920-1980
Jan Smits
1925-1975

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Grootegast 1891
  2. Overlijdensregister Grootegast 1961
  3. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/33781/smits
  4. Huwelijksregister Grootegast 1923

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Historical events

Birthday December 22, 1891

  • The temperature on December 22, 1891 was about -5.5 °C. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1891: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 31 » History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
    • May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
    • May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
    • July 26 » France annexes Tahiti.
    • August 18 » Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
    • August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

Day of marriage May 15, 1923

  • The temperature on May 15, 1923 was between 3.3 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (31%). 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
    • March 3 » TIME magazine is published for the first time.
    • April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
    • September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
    • September 9 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
    • September 29 » The First American Track & Field championships for women are held.
    • December 21 » United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816.

Day of death December 13, 1961

  • The temperature on December 13, 1961 was between 5.8 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 10.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
    • February 16 » Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
    • April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
    • April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
    • September 1 » The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
    • October 20 » The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
    • December 15 » Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.


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