When Anthony Robert Pann was born on 18 May 1927, in Old Forge, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Antonio Ralph Pann, was 34 and his mother, Rose Meranti, was 31. He died on 27 January 2007, in Old Forge, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 79.
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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.
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Dieter, Juergen.
North German: from Middle Low German pann ‘pan, roof tile’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of either of these items.
Altered form of German Pfann, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of pans, cognate with 1 above, from Middle High German pfanne, phanne ‘pan’, or a topographic name for someone living in low lying terrain, in a pan. Pfann sometimes denoted a salt panner.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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