World Historical Timeline

1. World Historical Timeline

2. My name is AlgisRatnikas and I was born in a refugee camp in Munich, Germany, in 1947 to Lithuanian parents. Our family emigrated to the United States in 1950. I remember waking up to the sound of an engine and looking out an airplane window. Below me I distinctly remember seeing the statue of a large woman. I had just turned 3 years old. My father had a arranged for a job picking tobacco in North Carolina. The job did not wait, but he was quickly able to contact a school friend, already settled in Detroit, to act as a sponsor. I grew up on the West side of Detroit and attended McCarrow public grade school through the 3rd grade and then transferred to St. Cecilia's through the 6th grade, where I also took piano lessons for 3 years.

3. We moved to Dearborn in 1959, where my father had advanced to work as a draftsman for the Ford Motor Company. In Dearborn my mother enrolled her 4 school-age children at Sacred Heart School, which was taught by the same IHM Sisters as we had at St .Cecilia. I soon began playing the accordion because our old piano had been left behind on Tuxedo St. In Dearborn we lived only a mile or so from the Greenfield Village Museum. One summer I happened upon the deserted Ford Fairlane mansion, while hiking in the woods along the Rouge River. I graduated from Sacred Heart High in 1965 and was accepted to the Univ. of Michigan with a small state scholarship. There I pursued a 4 year pre-med program and concentrated in cell biology. I was very interested in immunology and had spent 2 summers working for Dr. Poulik, a family friend, at the Children's Medical Center on Detroit's near East Side in the electrophoresis laboratory.

4. Timelines of World History contains numerous files arranged first in universal files by date, then by country, then by assorted subjects as listed on the main page. Also included are Today in History files. The local search engine is a powerful tool..  Clicking on the time period, when known, of a subject and then using the browser search tool works very well for phrases.  Films and quotes are best searched in the film and proverbs-quote files. Most all the information listed is referenced as to the source from which I got the information. The reference list is posted under references at the bottom of the front page. Dates are sometimes contradictory and when a valid choice is not clear I list the contradictions with references to the alternatives. Also books published specific to a given period are listed in that period, e.g. a biography on Whitman published in 1999 will be listed with others on the date of Whitman's death. Many dates are not specific as to month or day. If the year is given I list the event in the specific generic order indicated below [Schemata]. This arrangement is pretty consistent throughout all the files and serves as an aid both to entering information and finding information, e.g. it helps to know that undated US political events of 1776 will be in the middle of undated 1776 events between art events and deaths, to be followed by events in foreign countries in alphabetical order. Read more www.timelines.ws