Rita Gretchen McGinnis
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Parents
John Patrick McGinnis
John Patrick McGinnis
1887 - 1976
Margarita Gretchen Gartner
Margarita G Gartner
1887 - 1969
Spouse
Wilbur A Elslip
Wilbur A Elslip
1915 - 1995
Siblings

1920


Jan 7
Age: 11m
1920 • Bolsheviks increase troops from four divisions to twenty along the Polish border

1930


Age: 10y
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.

1947


Feb 15
Age: 28y
1947 Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day, 4,300 mile, voyage across the Eastern Pacific Ocean, proving that pre-historic peoples could hypothetically have traveled to the Central Pacific islands from South America.

1950


Jan 18
Age: 31y
1950 • December - First five-year plan is tabled in the Parliament by Jawaharlal Nehru. It emphasizes Agricultural and Community development.

1981


Oct 1
Age: 62y

2005


Oct

burial


Shoreline, King, Washington, USA ⇓
Buried at Holyrood Cemetery
2005 Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park in Jackson, New Jersey as the world's tallest and (at the time) fastest roller coaster.

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