When John Schmick was born in 1912, in Russia, his father, John Schmick, was 28 and his mother, Katharina, was 23. He had at least 1 son with Verna Ruth Orr. He died in 1991, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 79, and was buried in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Canada Act is passed. The United Kingdom transfers final legal powers over Canada. The country adopts its new constitution, which includes a charter of rights.
By universal suffrage, Yeltsin elected president of Russian Republic. Last Soviet troops leave Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Gorbachev and leaders of seven Soviet republics sign draft union treaty.
North German: metonymic occupational name for a maker of whips, or a nickname for a harsh person, from Middle Low German smicke ‘whip’.
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