Olson's Tree » Elizabeth Beatrice Whitney (1921-1976)
Personal data Elizabeth Beatrice Whitney
Source 1- She was born on March 28, 1921 in New York City, New York, New York.
- She died on November 20, 1976 in Boca Grande, Lee, Florida, USA, she was 55 years old.
- A child of George Whitney and Martha Beatrix Bacon
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Birthday March 28, 1921
- The temperature on March 28, 1921 was between 1.7 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (13%). 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
- February 15 » Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.
- March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
- August 14 » Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
- September 8 » Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
- October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
- November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
Day of death November 20, 1976
- The temperature on November 20, 1976 was between -0.1 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
- January 15 » Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
- January 18 » Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.
- June 29 » The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.
- July 21 » Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
- July 28 » The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
- September 16 » Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
Same birth/death day
- 1921 » Dirk Bogarde, English actor and author († 1999)
- 1921 » Harold Agnew, American physicist and academic († 2013)
- 1921 » Herschel Grynszpan, German assassin of Ernst vom Rath († 1960)
- 1921 » Walter Neugebauer, Croatian-German author and illustrator († 1992)
- 1922 » Grace Hartigan, American painter and educator († 2008)
- 1922 » Neville Bonner, Australian politician († 1999)
- 1972 » Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer and journalist (b. 1910)
- 1973 » Allan Sherman, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1924)
- 1975 » Francisco Franco, Spanish Fascist dictator (b. 1892)
- 1976 » Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (b. 1898)
- 1978 » Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1888)
- 1978 » Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian soldier and poet (b. 1890)
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Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P26332.php : accessed January 6, 2026), "Elizabeth Beatrice Whitney (1921-1976)".