7 February - 1 April 2002

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1928
Andy Warhol is born in Pittsburgh, the youngest of three brothers. His parents Julia and Andrej Warhola emigrated from the Ruthenian village of Mikova, now in the Slovak Republic. The Ruthenians were Catholics who had absorbed many of the rituals and liturgy of Russian orthodoxy, and the Warholas regularly attended a Byzantine Catholic church in Pittsburgh. For many years, Julia Warhola refused to learn English, so the Ruthenian dialect was spoken at home.

1929
Stock market crash heralds Great Depression