When Ward Newschwander was born in 1927, in New York, United States, his father, Raymond William Newschwander, was 28 and his mother, Elva May Freiberg, was 24. He lived in Binghamton, Broome, New York, United States for about 10 years. He died in 2005, in Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 78.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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.
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.
South German and Swiss German:
topographic name denoting someone farming or occupying newly cleared land, from Middle High German niuwe ‘new’ + swant ‘land cleared (of forest)’.
variant or an altered form of Swiss German Neuenschwander , a cognate of 1 above. See also Neuschwanger .
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