When Raymond Francis Jungwirth was born on 12 April 1926, in South Dakota, United States, his father, Aloys R Jungwirth, was 30 and his mother, Ida Puettmann, was 28. He married Theresa Delores Grose about 1953. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1954 and Bloomington, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States for about 7 years. He died on 18 January 2009, in Minnesota, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
The Minnesota Woman was the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old found near Pelican Rapids. The bones were brought to the University of Minnesota for more study. Later, Dr. Albert Jenks identified them as the bones of a 15 or 16 year old woman. Scientists now recognize the girl as someone whose ancestors were Paleo-Indian and now her skeletal remains have been reburied in South Dakota, not available for further study.
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.
German: distinguishing name, from Middle High German junc ‘young’ + wirt ‘husband, master of the house’, for a son or son-in-law. Wirt also came to mean ‘innkeeper’ and in some cases may have been applied in this sense.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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