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Paterson Surname

Paterson history and meaning

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Paterson coat of arms



3 events in 1961, when my father was born:

Berlin Wall**

On 12th August 1961, the Berlin Wall was built, enclosing West Berlin and completely separating West and East Berlin. At the end of the second world war, Germany was fighting a lot of different countries such as the Russians and the Allies. The Russians invaded Germany from the East, meanwhile the Allies invaded Germany from the West. Russia and the Allies met halfway while invading and made a deal to divide Germany up. The deal that was stuck composed of Russia having all of Germany apart from West Berlin.

Berlin, however was in the middle of East Germany which made access difficult for the Allies to West Berlin.

Another issue being East Germany, which was controlled by the Russians was a communist country, meanwhile West Berlin was capitalist because of the Allies ruling it. Capitalists have a lot more freedom, and have the ability to make as much money as you choose. Communism, on the other hand is in total control of you, the government tells you what’s what and you can only make a certain amount of money.

Life in West Berlin sounded like a much better lifestyle than in East Berlin, therefore many East Berliners emigrated to West Berlin. The East Berlin government thought too many emigrated, so they built a wall around West Berlin. The wall split families apart and many people were unhappy. Many tried escaping over the wall, but were shot by soldiers as a result.

The Wall was torn down in 1989, uniting Germany as one, once more.


 * Highest number of births**

In 1961, the most babies were born post-war. 65,476 babies were born, and of those 5,338 babies were born in the month of October. On average, more women were having more kids, about 4 children per woman, compared with an average of just over 2 children per woman in 2009. Also, more women were giving birth. At this time in New Zealand, the population was 2.4 million. Numbers of children being born began to fall after 1961 and by 1964 the baby boom was officially over.




 * Yuri Gagarin**

On the 12th April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in the world to travel into space. Yuri was born in Klushino, Russia on 9th March, 1934. During his flight into space, he famously whistled a patriotic russian song called “The motherland hears, the motherland knows” which was written by Dmitri Shostakovich. A comment he made from his space ship to ground control was: “The earth is blue. How wonderful. It is amazing.”

When Yuri Gagarin came back down to earth, he became a worldwide celebrity and toured around various countries such as Italy, Japan, Canada and the UK promoting the Soviet achievement.

After all of this, Yuri started re-qualifying as a fighter pilot. On a standard training flight, Yuri and his flight instructor died in a crash near the town of Kirzhach, Russia on 27th March, 1968.