When Edward J. Nolan was born on 11 June 1926, in Kearny, Hudson, New Jersey, United States, his father, Lewis Nolan Sr., was 28 and his mother, Margaret Mary Rahl, was 23. He married Doris McGill in 1948. He registered for military service in 1944. He died on 30 April 1997, in Reno, Washoe, Nevada, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Santa Nella, Merced, California, United States.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
New Jersey was severely impacted by the Great Depression. In response to the economic woes of the country, President Franklin D Roosevelt issued a series of programs and regulations referred to as the "New Deal". One-tenth of the New Jersey population was already using New Deal programs by 1933.
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, John Patrick, Liam, Cathal, Clancy, Conor, Fergus, Kieran, Seamus, Siobhan, Aileen, Brigid.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Nualláin ‘descendant of Nuallán’, a personal name representing a diminutive of nuall ‘famous, noble’. Compare Nolen and Nowlin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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