When David Earl McCormick was born on 12 April 1896, in Connellsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Peter McCormick, was 37 and his mother, Jennie Winning, was 33. He lived in Cooperstown, Derry Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died in September 1978, in Clarksburg, Harrison, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 82.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cormaic ‘son of Cormac’, a personal name based on corb ‘raven’ + mac ‘son’.
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