Keen, Benjamin
Context
Parents
| Father | Date of Birth | Mother | Date of Birth |
|---|
Partners & Children
| Partners | Date of Birth | Children |
|---|---|---|
Woszczynski, Victoria D.
|
07 November 1898 |
Events
| Event Type | Date | Place | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 15 December 1892 | Chesterton, Porter, Indiana | USA | |
| Death | 12 February 1971 | Lansing, Cook, Illinois | USA | |
| Burial | 15 February 1971 | Holy Cross Cemetery, Calumet City | Illinois |
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Notes
Burial: Holy Cross Cemetery, Section 21, Lot 1993.
His WW II registration card describes him as 5' 8" tall, 200 pounds with blue eyes, brown hair and a ruddy complexion.
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Kinships
| Name | Degree of Kinship | Date of Birth | Place of Birth | Date of Death | Place of Death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partners | |||||
Woszczynski, Victoria D. | Wife | 07 November 1898 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA | 04 January 1986 | Dolton, Cook, Illinois, USA |
| Parents | |||||
Woszczynski, John C. | Father-in-law | 24 June 1873 | German Poland | 04 December 1939 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA |
Szafranski, Ludwika | Mother-in-law | 24 August 1878 | Retkowo, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland | 29 October 1943 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA |
| Brothers & Sisters-in-law | |||||
Woszczynski, Stanislawa | Sister-in-law | 20 April 1897 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA | 22 August 1897 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA |
Woszczynski, John J. | Brother-in-law | 12 March 1901 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA | 04 March 1954 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA |
Woszczynski, Czeslaw Ludwik | Brother-in-law | 09 May 1904 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA | 10 November 1936 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA |
Woszczynski, Martha | Sister-in-law | 04 August 1905 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA | 01 September 1906 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA |
Woszczynski, Felix Andrew | Brother-in-law | 02 November 1907 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA | 26 August 1909 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA |
Woszczynski, Helena | Sister-in-law | 12 May 1909 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA | 25 May 1909 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA |
Woszczynski, Alexander Casimir | Brother-in-law | 16 July 1912 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA | 20 March 1988 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA |
Woszczynski, Kathryn | Sister-in-law | 17 April 1916 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA | 26 June 1998 | LaPorte, LaPorte, Indiana |
Woszczynski, Loraine Louise | Sister-in-law | 06 August 1919 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA | Aug 1992 | Cook, Illinois, USA |
World History
| Date | Age | Event | Category |
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| 12/15/1832 - 12/27/1923 | (-60.0) - 31.0 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
| 3/17/1834 - 3/6/1900 | (-58.8) - 7.2 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
| 7/8/1838 - 3/8/1917 | (-54.5) - 24.2 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
| 12/11/1843 - 5/27/1910 | (-49.0) - 17.5 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
| 11/25/1844 - 4/4/1929 | (-48.1) - 36.3 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| 2/11/1847 - 10/18/1931 | (-45.9) - 38.9 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| 3/3/1847 - 8/1/1922 | (-45.8) - 29.6 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
| 5/6/1856 - 9/23/1939 | (-36.6) - 46.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| 9/23/1861 - 3/12/1942 | (-31.2) - 49.3 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| 7/30/1863 - 4/7/1947 | (-29.4) - 54.3 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| 10/16/1863 - 3/17/1937 | (-29.2) - 44.3 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| 4/22/1870 - 1/21/1924 | (-22.7) - 31.1 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
| 11/30/1874 - 1/24/1965 | (-18.1) - 72.2 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| 1/5/1876 - 4/19/1967 | (-17.0) - 74.4 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| 3/14/1879 - 4/18/1955 | (-13.8) - 62.4 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| 8/6/1881 - 3/11/1955 | (-11.4) - 62.3 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| 1/21/1884 - 12/12/1963 | (-8.9) - 71.0 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| 6/15/1888 - 11/9/1918 | (-4.5) - 25.9 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
| 3/4/1889 - 3/4/1893 | (-3.8) - 0.2 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
| 4/20/1889 - 4/30/1945 | (-3.7) - 52.4 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| 10/14/1890 - 3/28/1969 | (-2.2) - 76.3 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| 3/4/1893 - 3/4/1897 | 0.2 - 4.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1896 | 3.0 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 | 3.0 - 4.0 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3/4/1897 - 9/14/1901 | 4.2 - 8.8 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
| 10/11/1899 - 5/31/1902 | 6.8 - 9.5 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9/8/1900 | 7.7 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
| 9/14/1901 - 3/4/1909 | 8.8 - 16.2 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 10/19/1901 | 8.8 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| 12/5/1901 - 12/15/1966 | 9.0 - 74.0 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| 6/16/1903 | 10.5 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
| 12/16/1903 | 11.0 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 | 11.0 - 15.1 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4/18/1906 | 13.3 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
| 1907 | 14.1 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
| 9/16/1908 | 15.8 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
| 9/27/1908 | 15.8 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
| 1909 | 16.1 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
| 3/4/1909 - 3/4/1913 | 16.2 - 20.2 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
| 5/30/1911 | 18.5 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
| 5/30/1911 | 18.5 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
| 10/23/1911 | 18.9 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
| 3/4/1913 - 3/4/1921 | 20.2 - 28.2 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
| 6/14/1914 - 6/15/1914 | 21.5 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
| 6/28/1914 - 11/11/1918 | 21.5 - 25.9 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8/6/1914 - 11/25/1918 | 21.7 - 26.0 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9/13/1914 - 7/9/1915 | 21.8 - 22.6 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 10/14/1914 - 10/24/1914 | 21.8 - 21.9 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1916 | 23.1 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
| 4/24/1916 - 4/30/1916 | 23.4 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
| 1917 - 1923 | 24.1 - 30.1 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3/8/1917 - 3/12/1917 | 24.2 - 24.3 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
| 5/29/1917 - 11/22/1963 | 24.5 - 71.0 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| 11/7/1917 | 24.9 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
| 11/9/1918 | 25.9 | German Revolution | Germany |
| 1919 | 26.1 | First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| 2/11/1919 - 2/28/1925 | 26.2 - 32.2 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
| 2/13/1919 - 6/20/1919 | 26.2 - 26.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
| 5/6/1919 - 8/8/1919 | 26.4 - 26.7 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8/11/1919 | 26.7 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
| 9/10/1919 | 26.8 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
| 3/4/1921 - 8/2/1923 | 28.2 - 30.6 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
| 12/6/1921 | 29.0 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
| 10/28/1922 | 29.9 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
| 8/2/1923 - 3/4/1929 | 30.6 - 36.2 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
| 8/13/1923 - 11/23/1923 | 30.7 - 31.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| 9/13/1923 | 30.8 | Establishing of the military dictatorship | Spain |
| 5/12/1925 - 8/2/1934 | 32.4 - 41.7 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| 1928 | 35.1 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
| 6/14/1928 - 10/9/1967 | 35.5 - 74.9 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| 1/15/1929 - 4/4/1968 | 36.1 - 75.4 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| 3/4/1929 - 3/4/1933 | 36.2 - 40.2 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| 10/25/1929 | 36.9 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
| 1/22/1930 - 5/1/1931 | 37.1 - 38.4 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| 3/30/1930 - 5/30/1932 | 37.3 - 39.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning | Germany |
| 8/5/1930 - Today | 37.7 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| 1931 | 38.1 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| 4/14/1931 | 38.4 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| 12/11/1931 | 39.0 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| 6/1/1932 - 11/17/1932 | 39.5 - 39.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| 12/3/1932 - 1/28/1933 | 40.0 - 40.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| 1/30/1933 - 4/30/1945 | 40.2 - 52.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| 2/28/1933 - 3/23/1933 | 40.2 - 40.3 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship | Germany |
| 3/4/1933 - 4/12/1945 | 40.2 - 52.4 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 42.1 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| 12/11/1936 - 2/6/1952 | 44.0 - 59.2 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| 1937 | 44.1 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| 5/6/1937 | 44.4 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 8/27/1939 | 46.7 | First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane | Aviation History |
| 9/1/1939 - 1945 | 46.7 - 52.1 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 5/14/1940 | 47.4 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| 12/7/1941 | 49.0 | Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| 4/12/1945 - 1/20/1953 | 52.4 - 60.1 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| 4/25/1945 | 52.4 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| 5/8/1945 | 52.4 | Unconditional Surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| 8/6/1945 - 8/9/1945 | 52.7 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| 10/14/1946 | 53.9 | Begin of the 4th French Republic | France |
| 10/14/1947 | 54.9 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| 12/21/1948 | 56.1 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| 1949 | 56.1 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| 5/23/1949 | 56.5 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 9/15/1949 - 10/16/1963 | 56.8 - 70.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| 10/7/1949 | 56.8 | Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic | Germany |
| 10/11/1949 - 9/7/1960 | 56.9 - 67.8 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| 1950 - 1953 | 57.1 - 60.1 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6/17/1950 | 57.5 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1/22/1952 | 59.1 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| 2/6/1952 - Today | 59.2 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| 1/20/1953 - 1/20/1961 | 60.1 - 68.1 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| 6/17/1953 | 60.5 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| 2/24/1955 - Today | 62.2 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| 10/4/1957 | 64.8 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| 10/5/1958 | 65.8 | Begin of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - 4/30/1975 | 66.1 - 82.4 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 | 67.1 - 80.1 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| 1/20/1961 - 11/22/1963 | 68.1 - 71.0 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
| 4/12/1961 | 68.4 | First human in space | Technology |
| 5/25/1961 - 7/24/1975 | 68.5 - 82.7 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
| 8/13/1961 | 68.7 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
| 10/11/1962 - 12/8/1965 | 69.9 - 73.0 | Second Vatican Council | World |
| 10/16/1962 - 10/28/1962 | 69.9 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
| 10/16/1963 - 12/1/1966 | 70.9 - 74.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
| 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969 | 71.0 - 76.1 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 | 73.1 - 80.1 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
| 12/1/1966 - 10/21/1969 | 74.0 - 76.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 | 74.1 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | Europian Union |
| 1/20/1969 - 8/9/1974 | 76.1 - 81.7 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
| 7/20/1969 | 76.6 | First Man on the Moon | Technology |
| 10/21/1969 - 5/7/1974 | 76.9 - 81.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
| 10/31/1969 | 76.9 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Woszczynski, Victoria D.