Margarita Gretchen Gartner
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Parents
Frederic Gartner
Frederic Gartner
1860 - 1934
Helena Roetzheim
Helena Roetzheim
1863 - 1951
Spouse
John Patrick McGinnis
John Patrick McGinnis
1887 - 1976
Children
Siblings

1887


Dec 21
1887 Dorr Eugene Felt receives the first U.S. patent for his comptometer.[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=-FxEAAAAEBAJ U.S. Patent No. 366,945], filed July 6, 1886; second patent granted October 11, 1887: [http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=TptMAAAAEBAJ U.S. Patent No. 371,496], filed March 12, 1887.

1910


May 5
Age: 22y

1911


Age: 22y
1911 • The theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered in the Louvre.

1916


Mar 9
Age: 28y
1916 Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control in the United States.

1919


Jan 11
Age: 31y
1919 Pancho Villa attacks Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. When the bullets begin to fly to the American side of the border, two units of the 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States) cross the border to repulse Villa's forces away from American territory.

1920


Jan 7
Age: 32y
1920 Hydrocodone, a narcotic analgesic closely related to codeine is first synthesized in Germany by Carl Mannich and Helene Löwenheim.

1930


Age: 41y
1930 • The Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops opens. This conference approves the use of birth control in limited circumstances, a move away from the Christian views on contraception expressed by the Sixth Conference a decade earlier.

1940


Age: 51y
1940 Winston Churchill tells the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, "We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight on the beaches... on the landing grounds... in the fields and the streets.... We shall never surrender."

1969


Apr 19
Age: 81y

1969


Apr 22
1969 • The very last Warner Bros. cartoon of the original theatrical Looney Tunes series is released: Injun Trouble.

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