Helen Rose McGinnis
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Parents
John Patrick McGinnis
John Patrick McGinnis
1887 - 1976
Margarita Gretchen Gartner
Margarita G Gartner
1887 - 1969
Spouse
Verner Harley Day
Verner Harley Day
1904 - 1981
Siblings

1916


Mar 9
1916 • WWI – Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle, which started on July 1.

1940


Age: 23y
1940 • WWII: Winter War – Russian forces launch a major assault on Finnish troops occupying the Karelian Isthmus.

1941


Feb 22
Age: 24y
1941 • WWII: The Soviet government moves to Kuibyshev (modern Samara), but Stalin remains in Moscow.

1942


Feb 4
Age: 25y
1942 • WWII: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.

1944


May 12
Age: 28y
1944 Kurt Gerron begins shooting the Nazi propaganda film Theresienstadt in Theresienstadt concentration camp. He and many others who feature in it are transferred to Auschwitz and gassed on its completion.

1946


Mar 16
Age: 30y
1946 • The NFL team San Francisco 49ers is formed.

1948


Apr 11
Age: 32y
1948 • In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.

1958


May 14
Age: 42y
1958 Brojen Das from East Pakistan swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bangali as well as the first Asian to ever do it. He is first among 39 competitors.

1960


May 17
Age: 44y
1960 Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches the satellite Sputnik 5, with the dogs Belka and Strelka (the Russian for "Squirrel" and "Little Arrow"), 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants. This satellite returns to earth the next day and all animals are recovered safely.

1994


Sep 28
Age: 78y
1994 Online service America Online offers gateway to World Wide Web for the first time. This marked the beginning of easy accessibility of the Web to the average person.

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