Matilda M Donohue (1909 - 1983)

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Matilda M Donohue & James J Donohue Sr

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James J Donohue Sr

James John Donohue Jr

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James J Donohue Sr

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James John Donohue Jr

Apr 8, 1936 - Mar 7, 2013

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Nancy J Donohue Letter

Nancy J Donohue

Catherine Doyle

Debra A Donohue Hanson

Matilda M.Murphy Donohue

James John Donohue Sr

Neil J Donohue

Thomas Donohue

James J Donohue Jr

Catherine Edna Doyle Donohue Bari Maenner Schneider

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James John Donohue

Wade Donohue and John Friend

George Ellis Donohue age 20

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Debra Hanson

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Hi Grandma,
My Dad passes before I could find him that was sad. I hope all of you are together and I want you to know I think of all of you. I love you xoxo

Nov 22, 2013 · Reply

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In 1909, in the year that Matilda M Donohue was born, explorer Robert Peary, a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy, claimed to have been the first to have reached the geographic North Pole. His claim has been disputed for over a century - some say that he ended up 60 miles from the North Pole. Peary was the only navigator on his team and he didn't submit his records for public review.

In 1934, when she was 25 years old, on June 6th, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was formed as a response to the stock market crash of 1929 and the continuing Great Depression. Previously, the states regulated the offering and sales of stocks - called "blue sky" laws. They were largely ineffective. Roosevelt created a group (one member was Joseph Kennedy, father of the future President Kennedy) who knew Wall Street well and they defined the mission and operating mode for the SEC. The new organization had broad and stringent rules and oversight and restored public confidence in the stock market in the United States.

In 1960, she was 51 years old when on September 26th, the first televised debate for a Presidential campaign in the United States - Kennedy vs Nixon - was held. Seventy million people watched the debate on TV. The debate pre-empted the very popular Andy Griffith Show.

In 1978, she was 69 years old when on July 25th, Louise Brown, the first "test-tube baby", was born at Oldham Hospital in London. Louise was conceived through IVF (in vitro fertilization), a controversial and experimental procedure at the time.

In 1983, in the year of Matilda M Donohue's passing, on August 30th, the Soviet Union claimed that a South Korean Boeing 747 jetliner (Flight 007), bound for Seoul from New York City, had strayed into Soviet airspace. Saying that they believed it to be a U.S. spy plane, the passenger jet was shot down by a Soviet SU-15 fighter - after it had tracked the airliner for two hours. All 269 passengers (including a U.S. Representative from Georgia) and crew were killed.