When Oneida Marie Harder was born on 12 July 1900, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States, her father, Herman Carl Harder, was 26 and her mother, Amanda Maria Magdelene Thiemke, was 30. She died on 2 December 1993, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
English: occupational name from an agent noun derived from Middle English hardenen ‘to make hard’ (Old English heardian), denoting a hardener of metals (used by Chaucer) and elsewhere a baker who hardened dough with heat.
North German and Danish: from the ancient Germanic personal name Harther, composed of the elements hard ‘strong, hard’+ heri ‘army’.
South German: topographic name from Middle High German hart ‘woodland used as pasture’, or a habitational name for someone from any of the places called with this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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