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Personal data John Hay Whitney 


Household of John Hay Whitney

He is married to Betsey Maria Cushing.

They got married on March 1, 1942, he was 37 years old.


Notes about John Hay Whitney

U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom Publisher of the New York Herald Tribune. President of the Museum of Modern Art.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of John Hay Whitney

William Collins Whitney
1841-1904
Flora Payne
1842-1893
John Milton Hay
1838-1905
Clara Louise Stone
1849-1914

John Hay Whitney
1904-1982

1942

Betsey Maria Cushing
1907-1998


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Birthday August 17, 1904

  • The temperature on August 17, 1904 was between 10.2 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
    • February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
    • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
    • April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
    • May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
    • June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
    • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.

Day of marriage March 1, 1942

  • The temperature on March 1, 1942 was between -1.3 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
    • January 23 » World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea.
    • April 26 » Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
    • May 9 » Holocaust: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
    • May 12 » World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarineU-507.
    • 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.
    • December 10 » World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations.

Day of death February 8, 1982

  • The temperature on February 8, 1982 was between 2.2 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1982: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
    • May 1 » Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
    • May 24 » Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
    • May 30 » Cold War: Spain joins NATO.
    • June 13 » Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.
    • July 9 » Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
    • August 29 » The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1900 » Vivienne de Watteville, British travel writer and adventurer († 1957)
  • 1904 » Leopold Nowak, Austrian composer and musicologist († 1991)
  • 1904 » Mary Cain, American journalist and politician († 1984)
  • 1909 » Larry Clinton, American trumpet player and bandleader († 1985)
  • 1909 » Wilf Copping, English footballer († 1980)

Source: Wikipedia


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