When Martha Ellen Rudloff was born on 23 May 1923, in Whitney, Dawes, Nebraska, United States, her father, Henry Herman Rudloff, was 42 and her mother, Anna Christina Henningfeld, was 38. She married Otas Charles Coats on 30 May 1951, in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. She lived in Whitney Election Precinct, Dawes, Nebraska, United States in 1940. She died on 25 August 1992, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Saint John Cemetery, Crawford, Dawes, Nebraska, United States.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Elke, Gerhard, Kurt, Winfried.
German: metathesized form of Rudolf .
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