In 1928 when Nomi was born (in Branderbug Germany)

the Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming was doing research on the Staphyloccus bacteria when he noticed that a growth of mold Penicillium notatium was contaminating the culture. There was no bacteria where the mold was present. Following up on this fact, Fleming found there was something in the mold that prevented bacterial growth. He named this substance penicillin.By continued experiment Fleming learned that penicillin is capable of killing many common disease-causing bacteria. His discovery proved to be one of the first and most useful antibiotics used in medicine today.

 The most severe economic crisis in the industrialized world began in the summer of 1929. It was dramatically announced by the collapse of the American stock market, beginning on Friday, Oct. 24, 1929, and continuing the following Tuesday with a greater fall. The market collapse is considered the start of the Great Depression because it was so dramatic, but the Depression had already been attacking the productive sectors of the economy for quite some time. The Depression struck many other countries as well, particularly Germany, Japan, and Britain.

When Nomi was two years old, on February 18, 1930 the planet Pluto was discovered. It is the outermost of the nine known planets in our solar system. It was discovered by the American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh. Pluto is the smallest of the known planets, at only one-five-hundredth the size of Earth. Since this size is too small to influence the orbit of Uranus, many astronomers believe there may be another large planet beyond Pluto. Others believe that Pluto, with its many irregularities, may not be a planet after all, but actually a satellite of Neptune that simply lost its way in the cosmos.

In 1932

The National Socialist Party of Germany began making gains. In the presidential election that year, Adolf Hitler garnered 36.8 percent of the vote. After this loss, Hitler decided that the chancellorship was the only office he would accept, and he wanted to win it by democratic and constitutional means. In January 1933 he attained his goal, when President Hindenburg asked him to become chancellor and form a new government in the crisis-ridden nation. They thought Hitler would be their tool to stabilize the political situation and then be shoved aside. They could not anticipate that they would soon be shoved aside themselves or that Hitler's rise to power would lead to another devastating war for Germany that would alter the course of Western civilization.

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