Olson's Tree » Katherine “Kay” Winthrop (1914-1997)
Personal data Katherine “Kay” Winthrop
Source 1- Alternative name: Katharine Winthrop
- She was born on July 17, 1914 in Hamilton, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.
- Alternative: She was born on July 7, 1914.
- She died on February 12, 1997 in South Hamilton, Essex, Massachusetts, USA, she was 82 years old.
- Alternative: She died on February 12, 1997, she was 82 years old.
- A child of Frederic Bayard Winthrop and Sarah Barroll Thayer
Household of Katherine “Kay” Winthrop
She is married to Quincy Adams Shaw McKean.
They got married on November 21, 1947 at New York City, New York, USA, she was 33 years old.
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Birthday July 7, 1914
- The temperature on July 7, 1914 was between 8.0 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
- July 23 » Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
- August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
- September 1 » The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
- November 5 » World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
- November 16 » The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
- December 23 » World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
Day of marriage November 21, 1947
- The temperature on November 21, 1947 was between 12.4 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
- January 1 » Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
- February 18 » First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
- April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
- May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
- August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
- November 6 » Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.
Day of death February 12, 1997
- The temperature on February 12, 1997 was between 5.8 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 17.0 mm of rain during 11.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
- February 28 » GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
- March 22 » Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
- April 1 » Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
- July 7 » The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
- September 26 » A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan airport, killing 234.
- December 1 » Heath High School shooting in West Paducah, Kentucky
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