When Pauline Marie Rinkenberger was born on 11 December 1900, in York, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joseph Frederick Rinkenberger, was 31 and her mother, Florence Wecker, was 32. She died on 3 December 1952, in York, York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Violet Hill, Spring Garden Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
German: habitational name for someone from Rinkenberg in Carinthia, Austria, Ringenberg in Germany, or any of various places in Switzerland called Ringgenberg.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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