When Ruth Agnes Kimmel was born on 9 April 1927, in Falun, County of Wetaskiwin No. 10, Alberta, Canada, her father, Hans Kimmel, was 67 and her mother, Hilma Sophia Lammi, was 34. She married William Emerson Pettey on 31 December 1950. She lived in San Rafael, Marin, California, United States in 2011. She died on 24 January 2011, in California, United States, at the age of 83.
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13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
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.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The agreement of the alliance is to help defend each other if attacked by an external country. The last country to enter was Montenegro in 2017.
German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and Dutch: from Middle High German kumin, German Kümmel ‘caraway’ (related to Latin cuminum, a word of Oriental origin, like the plant itself), hence a metonymic occupational name for a spicer, literally a supplier of caraway seeds.
English (London): variant of Kemble and Kimble .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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