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Personal data Roderick "Roddy" Tower 

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Household of Roderick "Roddy" Tower

He is married to Flora Payne Whitney.

They got married on April 19, 1920 at Manhattan, New York, USA, he was 27 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Pamela Tower  1921-2013
  2. Whitney Tower  1923-1999

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Roderick "Roddy" Tower

Roderick "Roddy" Tower
1892-1961

1920

Flora Payne Whitney
1897-1986

Pamela Tower
1921-2013
Whitney Tower
1923-1999

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Birthday October 21, 1892

  • The temperature on October 21, 1892 was about 5.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 15 » James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
    • February 29 » St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
    • March 18 » Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.
    • July 6 » Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
    • July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
    • September 9 » Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.

Day of marriage April 19, 1920

  • The temperature on April 19, 1920 was between 8.7 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
    • January 19 » The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
    • March 12 » The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
    • May 7 » Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
    • May 9 » Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
    • August 10 » World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
    • October 10 » The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.

Day of death September 25, 1961

  • The temperature on September 25, 1961 was between 12.2 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
    • January 8 » In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
    • January 17 » Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
    • February 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
    • April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
    • May 14 » Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.
    • June 23 » The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.


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