Rita Gretchen McGinnis
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Parents
John Patrick McGinnis
John Patrick McGinnis
1887 - 1976
Margarita Gretchen Gartner
Margarita G Gartner
1887 - 1969
Spouse
Wilbur A Elslip
Wilbur A Elslip
1915 - 1995
Siblings

1930


Age: 10y
1930 • British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden long-range flight resulting in the loss of 48 lives.

1940


Age: 20y
1940 • WWII: Appeal of 18 June: General Charles de Gaulle, de facto leader of the Free French Forces, makes his first broadcast appeal over Radio Londres from London rallying French Resistance, calling on all French people to continue the fight against Nazi Germany: "France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war".

1947


Feb 15
Age: 28y
1947 • In Brussels, 15,000 people demonstrate against the relatively short prison sentences of Belgian Nazi criminals.

1950


Jan 18
Age: 31y
1950 • Legendary singer-actor Paul Robeson, whose passport had recently been revoked because of his alleged Communist affiliations, meets with U.S. officials in an effort to get it reinstated. He is unsuccessful, and it is not reinstated until 1958.

1981


Oct 1
Age: 62y
1981 Antonio Tejero, with members of the Guardia Civil, enters the Spanish Congress of Deputies and stops the session where Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo is about to be named president of the government. The coup d'état fails thanks to King Juan Carlos.

2005


Oct

burial


Shoreline, King, Washington, USA ⇓
Buried at Holyrood Cemetery
2005 • The Qinghai-Tibet Railway is completed.

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