When Amber Philbrook was born on 28 August 1925, in Maine, United States, her father, Charles Ellmore Philbrook, was 38 and her mother, Verna Leagh Rich, was 37. She married Manley George Fuller on 6 December 1952, in Maine, United States. She lived in Belfast, Waldo, Maine, United States for about 22 years. She died on 13 October 2012, in Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 87.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
The citizens of Camden, Maine had voted (in 1896) to establish a free public library in the town. The land for the library to be built on was donated by Mary Louise Curtis Bok in 1916. After years of fundraising and construction, the cornerstone was finally laid on August 17, 1927. The library opened on June 11, 1928. The library remains open to this day, and is now considered a National Historic Landmark.
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.
English: variant of Philbrick .
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