Ancestry Project

World History

World War I begins

07/28/1914

Treaty of Versailles ending WWI signed in France

06/28/1919

Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor

1/30/1933

Nazi Germany invades Austria

3/12/1938

WWII begins

09/01/1939

WWII ends in Europe

5/8/1945

Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan

08/06/1945

WWII ends

08/14/1945

North Korea invades South Korea

06/25/1950

North Korea & UN sign armistice

07/27/1953

Berlin Wall constructed

08/13/1961

first woman in space

06/19/1963

Berlin Wall falls

11/10/1989

Family History

Arthur Wink's birth

09/15/1905

Ella Kruse's birth

12/18/1908

Orville Osick's birth

11/16/1915

Ida Foster's birth

06/01/1918

Herman Mehrtens' birth

12/21/1922

Lucille Doerr's birth

2/2/1924

Arthur & Ella's wedding

9/11/1932

Orville & Ida's wedding

1/1/1935

Lawrence Osick's birth

08/16/1937

Carol Wink's birth

09/25/1940

Herman & Lucille's wedding

09/16/1945

Paul Kimpel's birth

12/20/1946

Ruth Ann Mehrten's birth

10/15/1949

Lawrence & Carol's wedding

11/28/1959

Paul & Ruth Ann's wedding

11/30/1968

Scott Osick's birth

05/8/1970

Shanon Kimpel's birth

09/12/1971

Ruth Ann Kimpel's death

01/11/1972

Paul & Rhonda's wedding

09/21/1973

Arthur Wink's death

7/23/1976

Robert Kimpel's death

03/15/1988

Ella Wink's death

7/18/1991

Lucille Mehrtens' death

2/14/1994

Scott & Shanon's wedding

08/06/1994

Herman Mehrtens' death

08/20/1997

Alex Osick's Birth

04/16/1998

Ida Osick's death

7/19/2007

Orville Osick's death

1/30/2010

US History

Wright brothers patent the first aeroplane

05/22/1906

US enters WWI

4/6/1917

Franklin Roosevelt inaugrated as 32nd president

3/4/1933

21st amendment ratified

12/5/1933

FDR declares US neutrality in WWII

09/05/1939

Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

12/7/1941

US enters WWII

12/8/1941

Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus

12/1/1955

John F. Kennedy becomes president

11/08/1960

JFK assassinated

11/22/1963

Richard Nixon becomes president

11/6/1968

Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon

07/21/1969

Watergate scandal begins

07/17/1972

President Nixon resigns

8/9/1974

Microsft is founded

4/4/1975

AIDS epidemic begins

06/05/1981