When Nancy Louise Gloor was born on 8 October 1925, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States, her father, Emil Ernest Gloor Jr., was 41 and her mother, Louise Dorothea Stein, was 26. She married Capt. William Gibson Magrath on 7 August 1947, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States in 1930 and Walnut Creek, Contra Costa, California, United States in 2013. She died on 14 December 2013, in Diablo, Contra Costa, California, United States, at the age of 88.
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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.
The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.
Swiss German: from a vernacular form of the Latin personal name Hilarius (see Hillary ).
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