When John Arthur McKinney was born on 5 August 1938, in Kelso, Cowlitz, Washington, United States, his father, John Edward McKinney, was 33 and his mother, Rea May Clift, was 26. He married Constance Carol Jacobs on 4 July 1957, in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States. He lived in Election Precinct 38 Kalama North, Cowlitz, Washington, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 22 May 2013, in Kalama, Cowlitz, Washington, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Kalama Ioof Cemetery, Kalama, Cowlitz, Washington, United States.
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Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cionaodha or Mac Cionaoith ‘son of ç’, an early Gaelic personal name popular from the ninth century and possibly derived from Pictish.
Irish (northern): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinnigh ‘son of Coinneach’, an Old Irish personal name, borne by a Christian saint and Anglicized in Ireland as Canice, which was treated in Scotland as equivalent to Kenneth . This surname was usually Anglicized in Scotland as McKenzie , but is otherwise hard to distinguish from sense 1 above.
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