When Donovan Wayne Daggy was born on 27 February 1937, in Humboldt, Humboldt, Iowa, United States, his father, Floyd Everett Daggy, was 27 and his mother, Marjorie Flora Hasty, was 25. He lived in Corinth Township, Humboldt, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He died on 1 February 1992, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Moses Lake, Grant, Washington, United States.
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Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
Americanized form of German Däge, which is probably from a short form of any of the ancient Germanic personal names based on tac ‘day’, or of North German Dagge, which is from Middle Low German dagge ‘dagger, long knife’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of those.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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