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

1920


Jan 7
Age: 3y
1920 Mexican Revolution: Álvaro Obregón flees from Mexico City during a trial intended to ruin his reputation; he flees to Guerrero where he joins Fortunato Maycotte.

1930


Age: 13y
1930 • Building of the Boulder Dam (later known as the Hoover Dam) is started on the Colorado River in the United States.

1940


Age: 23y
1940 • The Soviet Union and Finland sign a peace treaty in Moscow ending the Winter War; Finns, along with the world at large, are shocked by the harsh terms.

1941


Feb 22
Age: 24y
1941 • WWII: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, proclaims an "unlimited national emergency."

1942


Feb 4
Age: 25y
1942 • WWII: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.

1944


May 12
Age: 28y
1944 • The first complete U.S. production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is presented in San Francisco, choreographed by William Christensen. It will become an annual tradition there, and for the next ten years, the San Francisco Ballet will be the only company in the United States performing the complete work until George Balanchine premieres his version in New York in 1954.

1946


Mar 16
Age: 30y
1946 • Iranian troops recapture the Azerbaijan province and the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad, both of which had seceded earlier in the year.

1948


Apr 11
Age: 32y

1958


May 14
Age: 42y
1958 Denatonium, the bitterest substance known, is discovered. It is used as an aversive agent in products such as bleach to reduce the risk of children drinking them.

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