When Howard Andrew Rackham was born on 1 January 1926, in Salmon, Lemhi, Idaho, United States, his father, Henry Frederick Rackham Jr., was 32 and his mother, Dorothy Lucetta Brown, was 19. He married Helen Ruth Haan on 19 May 1945, in Clark, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Carmen, Lemhi, Idaho, United States in 1950 and Mackay, Custer, Idaho, United States in 2007. He died on 16 March 2007, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 81.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.
English (Norfolk and Suffolk): habitational name from Rackham (Sussex), recorded as Rakham in 1295 and Regham in 1370, so named from Old English hrēac ‘rick, hay stack, mound’ (probably the name of a nearby hill) + hamm ‘water meadow’ or hām ‘village, homestead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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