Minnie C Hughes (1910 - 1989)

Minnie's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Hughes family tree.

Minnie's Family

Add a parent

Add a parent

Minnie C Hughes Add a partner Add a child Add a partner Add a child

Add a sibling

We currently do not have photos of Minnie C Hughes. Below are potential family photos that share Minnie's last name or surname. Pictures really do say a thousand words. Add photos of Minnie during various points of her life

Rosalie Cotich Hughes

Rosalie Cotich Hughes

Rosalie Cotich Hughes

Rosalie Cotich Hughes, 1930s

Edward Francis Hughes

Edward Francis Hughes

Four Generations

Baby Boy Hughes

Eva Faye Douglas McCcoy

Eldred Eugene Hughes

Eldred Eugene Hughes

Lester Hughes Sr relatives

Florence Hughes- Wasler

Frederick Leonard Hughes

Cecile Hughes

Add photo

What do you remember about Minnie C Hughes? Share your memories of special moments and stories you have heard about her. Or just leave a comment to show the world that Minnie is remembered.

Post

Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Minnie's lifetime

In 1910, in the year that Minnie C Hughes was born, the Mexican revolution began. Dictator Porfirio Díaz had ruled for 35 years and was nationally unpopular. When elections were held in 1910 and a rigged election kept Diaz in office. The uprising began - and lasted for another 10 years.

In 1922, she was just 12 years old when on November 4th, British Egyptologists George Carnarvon and Howard Carter unearthed the first step leading to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. By the end of the month they had unearthed the steps and broken through the door into the intact tomb. This was the only tomb that had remained unlooted that had been found (and is, to date). Filled with gold, jewels, and ancient everyday items, the find was priceless - in terms of money and history.

In 1943, Minnie was 33 years old when on March 31st, the Broadway musical Oklahoma! opened. Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (the first of their string of successful collaborations), audiences loved it. The musical ran for 2,212 performances originally and was made into a movie in 1954.

In 1961, by the time she was 51 years old, on May 5th, Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., made the first manned Project Mercury flight, MR-3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. He was the second man to go into space, the first was Yuri Gagarin - a Soviet cosmonaut.

In 1989, in the year of Minnie C Hughes's passing, on November 9th, the Berlin Wall fell. The Wall was built by the East Germans to keep East Berliners from escaping into West Berlin, separating families and friends. When the head of the East German Communist Party announced that day that East Berliners could cross whenever they pleased, happy crowds surged across the border. People brought tools and took parts of the hated wall.