When Gladys Jeanette Friday was born on 27 January 1926, in Chilton, Alabama, United States, her father, Robert Lee Friday, was 23 and her mother, Ida Lee Vines, was 25. She lived in Election Precinct 4 Clanton, Chilton, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. She died on 24 March 2007, in Clanton, Chilton, Alabama, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Clanton, Chilton, Alabama, United States.
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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.
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.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German or Jewish (Ashkenazic) Freitag .
English: nickname from Middle English fridai ‘Friday’, perhaps for one born on a Friday or who paid rent or performed some regular service on a Friday. Compare Mondy . If the 17th-century phrases Friday face ‘gloomy expression’ and Friday food, Friday feast ‘fast-day meal’ go back to the Middle Ages, this might be a nickname for a solemn or gloomy person.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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