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

1900


Age: 11y
1900 • The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal across Central America in Nicaragua.

1916


Mar 9
Age: 28y
1916 • The British Royal Army Medical Corps first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled.

1919


Jan 11
Age: 31y
1919 6 – British airship R34 makes the first transatlantic flight by dirigible, and the first westbound flight, from RAF East Fortune, Scotland, to Mineola, New York.

1920


Jan 7
Age: 32y
1920 • French and Belgian troops leave the cities they have occupied in Germany.

1930


Age: 41y
1930 • British airship R100 sets out for a successful 78-hour passage to Canada.

1940


Age: 51y
1940 Japan enters French Indochina: an agreement is signed in which Japan promises to station no more than 6,000 troops there, and never have more than 25,000 transiting the colony. Rights were also given for three airfields.

1969


Apr 22
1969 • The Soviet Union returns Gerald Brooke to the United Kingdom in exchange for spies Peter and Helen Kroger (Morris and Lona Cohen).

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