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.
- January 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
- June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
- September 5 » Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
- 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.
- December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
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 18 » Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.
- February 4 » In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
- February 9 » Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.
- February 19 » Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.
- October 11 » George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.
- December 3 » An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley in Kingston, Jamaica just two days before the "Smile Jamaica", a free concert.
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 13, 2026), "Elizabeth Beatrice Whitney (1921-1976)".