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

1940


Age: 23y
1940 Katyn massacre: Members of the Soviet Politburo (Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Mikhail Kalinin, Kliment Voroshilov and Lavrenty Beria) sign an order, prepared by Beria, for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs.

1941


Feb 22
Age: 24y
1941 • WWII: Charles Lindbergh, at an America First Committee rally in Des Moines, Iowa, accuses "the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt administration" of leading the United States toward war. Widespread condemnation of Lindbergh follows.

1942


Feb 4
Age: 25y
1942 • WWII: The German Eleventh Army under Erich von Manstein takes Sevastopol, although fighting rages until July 9.

1946


Mar 16
Age: 30y

1948


Apr 11
Age: 32y
1948 • President Harry S. Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States, amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union (the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President Roosevelt)

1958


May 14
Age: 42y
1958 • A message from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is broadcast from the SCORE satellite.

1960


May 17
Age: 44y
1960 Chad becomes independent from France.

1994


Sep 28
Age: 78y

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