Brief Life History of Richard Dean
When Richard Dean Dominick was born on 23 February 1935, in Du Quoin, Perry, Illinois, United States, his father, Friedrich Dominik, was 35 and his mother, Lela Josephine Williams, was 30. He died on 1 September 2001, in Pickens, Pickens, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Pickens, Pickens, South Carolina, United States.
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- Kankakee County, Illinois Marriage Index, 1889-1962
- Richard D Dominick, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Richard D Dominick, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
1942
On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and a small band of scientists and engineers demonstrated that a simple construction of graphite bricks and uranium lumps could produce controlled heat. The space chosen for the first nuclear fission reactor was a squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago.
1954 · The First McDonald's Opens Its Doors
Ray Kroc opened up the first McDonalds in Des Plaines after the McDonald Brothers gave him the rights to set up restaurants thoughout the country.
Name Meaning
English and German: from a vernacular form of the Late Latin personal name Dominicus, from Latin dominicus ‘of the Lord’, an adjectival derivative of dominus ‘lord, master’. This was borne by a Spanish saint (1170–1221) who founded the Dominican order of friars and whose fame added greatly to the popularity of the name (Domingo in Spanish), already established because of its symbolic value. In medieval England it may have been used as a personal name for a child born on a Sunday, though as an English surname it is comparatively rare. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, especially Italian Domenico (see also 2 below). See also Domingo , compare Dominic .
Americanized form of German, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Dominik and of Croatian Dominić (see Dominic ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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