Winning 11 Oscars, it was the first film to gross over a billion dollars and eventually grossed over $2 billion. In 1998, in the year of Margaret A Koch's passing, on December 19th, the movie Titanic - based on the 1912 sinking of the ship and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet - was released. Beginning in Hong Kong then spreading to Europe, the crash then hit the United States. In 1987, at the age of 52 years old, Margaret was alive when on October 19th, stock exchanges around the world crashed. James Earl Ray was apprehended and plead guilty to shooting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader, was shot and killed by an assassin in Memphis. In 1968, by the time she was 33 years old, on April 4th, Dr. The shooter was tried, convicted, and hung in November 1949. The man, Nathuram Godse, shot Gandhi 3 times. In 1948, she was only 13 years old when on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. The Act survived many Supreme Court challenges and the Administration continues until today. Many black and white illustrations, including historic photographs, contemporary art, and a few more modern photos. Hardbound, about 11.25 inches tall, 254 pages. The law established the Social Security Administration whose primary focus was to 'provide aid for the elderly, the unemployed, and children'. Fresno, California: Valley Publishers, 1973.

The purpose was to 'provide federal assistance to those unable to work'. In 1935, in the year that Margaret A Koch was born, on August 14, the Social Security Act was signed into law. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Margaret's lifetime.

Santa Cruz County by Margaret Koch