1920 Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts
Name: Arthur Mcgrath
Residence: Gloucester City Part Of Ward 4, Essex, Massachusetts
estimated Birth Year: 1912
Age: 8
birthPlace: Massachusetts
Relationship to Head of Household: Son
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Single
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Film Number: 1820690
Digital Folder Number: 4301086
Image Number: 00242
sheet number: 6
Household Gender Age Birthplace
self John Mcgrath M 52y Canada
wife Lillian Mcgrath F 42y Maine
son Walter Mcgrath M 17y Maine
dau Alice Mcgrath F 14y Maine
dau Louise Mcgrath F 10y Massachusetts
son Arthur Mcgrath M 8y Massachusetts
dau Lillian Mcgrath F 6y Massachusetts
dau Ruth Mcgrath F 3y11m Massachusetts
dau Viola Bradford F 17y Maine
Margaret A Bradford F 9m Massachusetts
Hannah Haskell F 29y Maine
1911 Birth
Name: James A. Mcgrath
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Event Date: 30 Oct 1911
Event Place: Gloucester, Massachusetts
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father: John I. Mcgrath
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mother: Lillian M. Williams
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volume/ page/ certificate number: item 1 p 510
Film Number: 2409218
Digital Folder Number: 4401714
Image Number: 522
'Massachusetts, Births, 1841-1915,' index and images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ pal:/ MM9.1.1/ FXVM-RDF : accessed 26 Nov 2012), James A. Mcgrath, 1911.
1929 - October 29 - Black Tuesday - Stock market crash - The Great Depression Begins - It lasted until 1941 (WW2)
1930 Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts
Name: James Arthur McGrath
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts
Gender: Male
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Marital Status: Single
Race: White
birthPlace: Massachusetts
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Relationship to Head of Household: Son
father's birthPlace: Canada English
mother's birthPlace: Maine
enumeration district number: 0041
family number: 289
Sheet Number and Letter: 14A
Line Number: 11
nara publication: T626, roll 896
Film Number: 2340631
Digital Folder Number: 4606993
Image Number: 00214
Household Gender Age Birthplace
head John I Mc Grath M 64 Canada English
wife Lillian Mc Grath F 55 Maine
son John A Mc Grath M 32 Maine
son Walter E Mc Grath M 28 Maine
daughter Alice Hardy F 24 Maine
daughter Louise Hardy F 21 Massachusetts
son James And? Mc Grath M Massachusetts
daughter Lillian Mc Grath F 16 Massachusetts
daughter Margaret R Mc Grath F 13 Massachusetts
grandson Robert Mc Grath M 8
1934 - The metal beverage can is invented (American Can Co., United States)
1940 - April - 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
The microwave oven was invented accidentally in 1945 by Percy Spencer, a Raytheon engineer. While testing a magnetron, he noticed microwaves melted a candy bar in his pocket. Experimenting further, he discovered microwaves could cook food quickly. Raytheon patented the process, and by 1947, they built the first commercial microwave oven, called the 'Radarange.' Initially used in commercial settings, microwaves becomes affordable for home use by the 1960s and 1970s, revolutionizing cooking.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis was a tense 13-day standoff in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S. coast. The crisis is considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. It began when American spy planes discovered the missiles, leading to a U.S. naval blockade of Cuba and intense negotiations. The crisis ended when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba and secretly agreeing to remove American missiles from Turkey.
1963 - I Have a Dream Speech - Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963.
June 17, 1972 – August 9, 1974 - Watergate Scandal began with the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., in 1972. Members of President Richard Nixon's administration attempted to cover up their involvement. The scandal led to the discovery of multiple abuses of power by the Nixon administration, the resignation of President Nixon in 1974, and the indictment of several administration officials.
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