Genealogy for
Verl Glen Gainer
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Verl Glen Gainer
1/4/1912 - 6/8/1940
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Verl Glen Gainer was born on January 4, 1912 in Elizabeth, West Virginia and died on June 8, 1940 in Atlanta, Georgia. He lived to be 28 years old.
Married 2/4/1940 Myrtice Eudesse Halley, no children. He died in a car accident in Atlanta, GA. He is buried in Elizabeth, WV. | |
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1914 |
Barrow, Candler, Bacon, and Evans Counties are formed. |
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1917 |
Atkinson and Treutlen Counties are formed. |
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1920 |
Seminole, Lanier, Brantley, Long, and Lamar Counties are formed. |
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1924 |
Peach County is formed. |
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1913 |
Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant |
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1914 |
The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed |
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1923 |
Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id" |
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1923 |
Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes |
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1924 |
Insecticides are used for the first time on crops |
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1926 |
Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket |
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1927 |
The first television transmission was announced in England |
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1928 |
Big bang theory was introduced |
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1936 |
The first regular television broadcast happens in England |
| 26 |
1938 |
Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission |
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1913 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures |
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1917 |
NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism. |
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1919 |
NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty. |
| 26 |
1938 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic. |
| 27 |
1939 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States |
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| 15 |
1927 |
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs. |
| 17 |
1929 |
Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October |
| 18 |
1930 |
Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states. |
| 20 |
1932 |
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered. |
| 21 |
1933 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone! |
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1934 |
Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains. |
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1934 |
Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize. |
| 23 |
1935 |
Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time. |
| 27 |
1939 |
Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color. |
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1914 |
World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days. |
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1917 |
Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes. |
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1919 |
The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I. |
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1920 |
Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made. |
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1938 |
Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia. |
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1939 |
Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun. |
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 | Myrtice Halley
Born on September 5, 1921 and died on January 25, 1999.
They were married 2/4/1940.
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