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Mary Catherine Lamb

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	Joseph Henry Lamb 7/1881 - 1966	Anna Caroline Randolph 10/26/1881 - 3/4/1964

About Mary Catherine Lamb

Mary Catherine Lamb
6/3/1911 - 8/9/1973
(Shown at age 14)

Mary Catherine Lamb was born on June 3, 1911 in Defiance, Pauling County, Ohio and died on August 9, 1973 in Roscommon, Michigan. She lived to be 62 years old.

Her parents are Joseph Henry Lamb (1881-1966) and Anna Caroline Randolph (1881-1964). She had three children with first husband, Alden Green, and one child with second husband, Donald F. Watson.

	Military	1/11/1945		33 yrs old
	Private First Class Alden J. Green, died 1/11/1945 in Belgium. He was buried in the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Plot F, Row 13, Grave 16, in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium. He was awarded the Purple Heart and served in the 320th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division. (Source: World War II Honor Roll).

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Age	Date	Event
1	1912	The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people.
2	1913	Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant
3	1914	The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed
12	1923	Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
12	1923	Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
13	1924	Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
15	1926	Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
16	1927	The first television transmission was announced in England
17	1928	Big bang theory was introduced
25	1936	The first regular television broadcast happens in England
27	1938	Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
35	1946	The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
36	1947	Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
40	1951	The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
41	1952	The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
46	1957	Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
49	1960	The ruby laser was created by Maiman
51	1962	U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
54	1965	The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
60	1971	The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union

Age	Date	Event
1	1912	White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out.
2	1913	NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures
6	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.
8	1919	NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.
27	1938	NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
28	1939	NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
30	1941	NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers.
39	1950	NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
44	1955	NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
49	1960	NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
52	1963	NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
58	1969	NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface.
59	1970	NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest.

Age	Date	Event
17	1928	Construction of the Ford River Rouge Plant is completed; the largest integrated factory complex in the world employs 100,000 people
18	1929	The Ambassador Bridge opens between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. It is the longest bridge in the world when built. The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel would open the next year.
26	1937	Flint Sit-Down Strike ended with official recognition of the United Auto Workers by General Motors.
30	1941	Between 1941-1945 During World War II, Detroit is called the "Arsenal of Democracy" for its wartime industry; Fort Wayne is the largest motor vehicle and parts depot in the world.
32	1943	Riot broke out pitting whites against blacks during wartime.
39	1950	Detroit is the 4th largest city in the U.S., with 1.8 million people
48	1959	Motown music begins recording in Detroit.
49	1960	Census results reveal a 1.45 million increase in state population, the largest in state history.
56	1967	Race riots struck the city of Detroit. After 5 days of rioting, 43 people lay dead, 1,189 injured and over 7,000 people had been arrested. The riot had lasting effects on the entire metro region and is usually cited as one of the reasons the Detroit area is among the most segregated areas in the United States. 1974 Gerald R. Ford

Age	Date	Event
16	1927	Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
18	1929	Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
19	1930	Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
21	1932	Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
22	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!
23	1934	Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
23	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.
24	1935	Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
28	1939	Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
32	1943	Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit.
33	1944	On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
34	1945	President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
43	1954	The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency.
51	1962	The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
55	1966	The Black Panther party is founded.
56	1967	Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad.
60	1971	Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.
61	1972	Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.
62	1973	The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.

Age	Date	Event
3	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.
6	1917	Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.
8	1919	The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
9	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.
27	1938	Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
28	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.
34	1945	World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

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Alden Green
Born on October 29, 1911 and died on January 11, 1945

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The Children of Mary Catherine Lamb

18 years old

John (Jack) Lee Green
Born in Detroit, Michigan on February 15, 1936 and died in Mackinaw Island, Michigan on September 24, 2012. He was 76 years old.

Kenneth Green
Born in Detroit, Michigan about 1937 and died in an unknown location about 2014. He was about 77 years old.

Sharon Green
Born in Detroit, Michigan on August 17, 1939 and died in Roscommon, Michigan on February 6, 2024. She was 84 years old.

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