Brief Life History of Raymond Arthur
When Raymond Arthur Ciszek was born on 21 May 1924, in Hobart Township, Lake, Indiana, United States, his father, Joseph Ciszek, was 36 and his mother, Minnie Piornack, was 32. He lived in Hobart, Ross Township, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1930 and Bellingham, Whatcom, Washington, United States in 1950. He died in 2014, in Reston, Fairfax, Virginia, United States, at the age of 90.
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- Raymond A Ciszek, "United States 1950 Census"
- Raymond Arthur Ciszek, "Indiana, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
- Raymond Ciszek, "United States Census, 1940"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1940
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.
1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Polish Ignatius, Stanislaw, Jaroslaw, Piotr, Wieslaw.
Polish: nickname from cichy ‘quiet, calm’, or ciszyć ‘to appease, to calm down’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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