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

1930


Age: 13y
1930 Chicago Tribune journalist Jake Lingle is shot in Chicago, Illinois. Newspapers promise $55,000 reward for information. Lingle is later found to have had contacts with organized crime.

1941


Feb 22
Age: 24y
1941 • WWII and Attack on Pearl Harbor: The code message "Climb Mount Niitaka" is transmitted to the Japanese task force, indicating that negotiations have broken down and that the attack is to be carried out according to plan.

1942


Feb 4
Age: 25y

1944


May 12
Age: 28y
1944 • On the middle front of the Gothic Line, Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after 10 days of fighting.

1946


Mar 16
Age: 30y
1946 Léon Blum founds a government of socialist parties in France.

1948


Apr 11
Age: 32y
1948 • The Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia and the Soviet/Yugoslav split.

1958


May 14
Age: 42y
1958 • The USS Wisconsin is decommissioned, leaving the United States Navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1896 (it is recommissioned October 22, 1988).

1960


May 17
Age: 44y
1960 A.J. Liebling promulgates Liebling's Law in The New Yorker magazine: "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."

1994


Sep 28
Age: 78y
1994 • The population of Nigeria exceeds 100 million making the republic the first African nation to have a population above 100 million.

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