Mary Margaret McGinnis
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Parents
John Patrick McGinnis
John Patrick McGinnis
1887 - 1976
Margarita Gretchen Gartner
Margarita G Gartner
1887 - 1969
Spouse
Harold Erving Fisher
Harold Erving Fisher
1907 - 1987
Siblings

1914


Jan 4
Age: 8d
1914 • Phi Sigma, a local undergraduate classical club, is founded by a group of students in the Greek Department at the University of Chicago.

1932


Jun 6
Age: 18y

graduation


Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓
Graduated from Holy Angels Academy
1932 • The first Purple Heart was awarded.

1941


Feb 8
Age: 27y

1942


Feb 14
Age: 28y
1942 • WWII: St Nazaire Raid (Operation Chariot) – British Commandos raid Saint-Nazaire on the coast of Western France to put its dockyard facilities out of action.

1943


Apr 21
Age: 29y
1943 • WWII: Battle of Tarawa: United States Marines land on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati from 1979) and take heavy fire from Japanese shore guns.

1945


Apr 5
Age: 31y
1945 • Marshal Josip Broz Tito and the People's Front win a deciding majority (85%) in the Yugoslavian assembly.

1949


Apr 18
Age: 35y
1949 • The first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, conducted by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert (i.e. no scenery or costumes), is telecast by NBC, live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center. The second half is telecast a week later. This is the only complete opera that Toscanini ever conducts on television.

1950


Apr 13
Age: 36y

2005


Aug 13

burial


Shoreline, King, Washington, USA ⇓
Buried at Holyrood Catholic Cemetery
2005 • The Pakistan Army opens fire on insurgents in Baluchistan, in the first armed uprising since General Rahimuddin Khan's stabilization of the province in 1978.

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