Thomas " Tommy" Barth was born on 30 June 1924, in Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States. He died on 22 February 2007, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 82.
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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.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: German Otto, Hans, Kurt, Franz, Erwin, Florian, Gerhard, Gunther, Klaus, Manfred, Armin, Arno.
German and Swiss German: nickname for a bearded man, from Middle High German bart ‘beard’. This name, which can not be always distinguished from 2 and 4 below, is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Slovenia, in the last four countries sometimes as a German translation of Slavic surnames meaning ‘beard’ or ‘bearded man’ (see Bart 1). See also Beard 1.
German: habitational name from a place so named in Pomerania.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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