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                      the life of lafever, myrtle elvira (love)

 
     1908/11/11 to 1989/08/06  female
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1908/--/-- -1 - an earthquake at messina in italy kills 80,000.
1908/--/-- -1 - austria-hungary annexes bosnia and hercegovina.
1908/--/-- -1 - austrian artist gustav klimt paints the kiss.
1908/--/-- -1 - automaker william durant founds the general motors company.
1908/--/-- -1 - british soldier robert baden-powell founds the boy scout movement.
1908/--/-- -1 - filmmakers charles pathe and leon gaumont produce the first newsreel.
1908/--/-- -1 - ge patents electric toaster
1908/--/-- -1 - jack johnson becomes the first black heavyweight boxing champion.
1908/--/-- -1 - kenneth grahame publishes his children's story the wind in the willows.
1908/--/-- -1 - king leopold ii of the belgians establishes the independent state of congo in africa.
1908/--/-- -1 - liberal leader herbert asquith becomes prime minister of britain.
1908/--/-- -1 - mary baker eddy establishes the christian science monitor.
1908/--/-- -1 - pablo picasso and georges braque cofound the cubism art movement.
1908/--/-- -1 - the ashcan school of painters exhibit in new york city.
1908/--/-- -1 - the ford motor company produces the first model t automobile.
1908/--/-- -1 - the national association for the advancement of colored people (naacp) is founded.
1908/--/-- -1 - the tunguska fireball explodes in siberia with the force of a modern h-bomb.
1908/--/-- -1 - the young turk revolution in turkey leads to political reform.
1908/02/02 -1 *** lafever, luke gilliam [father] & goff, america alice (lafever) [mother] - married
1908/10/-- -1 - world series nl chicago (4) al detroit (1)
1908/11/11 0 *** lafever, myrtle elvira (love) - born to lafever, luke gilliam and goff, america alice (lafever)
1909/--/-- 0 - american architect frank lloyd wright builds the robie house in chicago.
1909/--/-- 0 - american artist george bellows paints the prize fight scene stag at sharkey's.
1909/--/-- 0 - american explorer robert e. peary reaches the north pole.
1909/--/-- 0 - american poet william carlos williams publishes poems, his first book.
1909/--/-- 0 - american writer gertrude stein publishes three lives.
1909/--/-- 0 - french aviator louis bleriot makes the first flight across the english channel.
1909/--/-- 0 - naacp in nyc
1909/--/-- 0 - russian impresario serge diaghilev presents the ballet russe in paris.
1909/--/-- 0 - taft is inaugurated as the 27th u.s. president; sherman becomes vice-president.
1909/--/-- 0 - william howard taft (republican) becomes president of the united states
1909/01/03 0 *** goff, lanis franklin [uncle] - born to goff, james m. -jimmy- and bozarth, mary elizabeth "betty" (goff) silver point, dekalb county tennessee
1909/10/-- 0 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al detroit (3)
1910/--/-- 1 - british empire covers 1/5th of world land area
1910/--/-- 1 - british author arnold bennett publishes clayhanger.
1910/--/-- 1 - british politician winston churchill is appointed first lord of the admiralty.
1910/--/-- 1 - france groups four african territories together as french equatorial africa.
1910/--/-- 1 - french primitive artist henri rousseau paints the dream.
1910/--/-- 1 - french sculptor auguste rodin casts the bronze figure the thinker.
1910/--/-- 1 - fundamentalism begins with "five points"
1910/--/-- 1 - george v succeeds his father edward vii as king of great britain and ireland.
1910/--/-- 1 - german bacteriologist paul ehrlich synthesizes salversan, a cure for syphilis.
1910/--/-- 1 - italian artists led by umberto boccioni found the futurism movement.
1910/--/-- 1 - japanese forces annex korea.
1910/--/-- 1 - madero, villa and zapata lead a revolution against mexican dictator porfirio diaz.
1910/--/-- 1 - russian-born artist wassily kandinsky executes his first abstract painting.
1910/--/-- 1 - the art deco architectural and decorative arts style begins to become popular.
1910/--/-- 1 - the union of south africa is formed; louis botha becomes the first prime minister.
1910/05/-- 1 - george v succeeds as king of great britain and ireland.
1910/10/-- 1 - world series nl chicago (1) al philadelphia (4)
1910/10/08 1 *** lafever, charlie columbus [brother] - born to lafever, luke gilliam and goff, america alice (lafever)
1911/--/-- 2 - american aviator glen curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
1911/--/-- 2 - american novelist edith wharton publishes ethan frome.
1911/--/-- 2 - american songwriter irving berlin publishes alexander's ragtime band.
1911/--/-- 2 - elmer a. sperry designs the first american gyrocompass.
1911/--/-- 2 - english author g.k. chesterton publishes the first father brown story.
1911/--/-- 2 - german-american anthropologist franz boas publishes the mind of primitive man.
1911/--/-- 2 - hans geiger invents an electrical device to count individual alpha particles.
1911/--/-- 2 - italy's attempts to annex cyrenaica and tripolitania leads to the italo-turkish war.
1911/--/-- 2 - mexican dictator porfirio diaz is overthrown; francisco madero becomes president.
1911/--/-- 2 - norwegian explorer roald amundsen reaches the south pole ahead of robert scott.
1911/--/-- 2 - richard strauss' opera der rosenkavalier is performed for the first time.
1911/--/-- 2 - robert a millikan measures electron's charge
1911/--/-- 2 - russian artist marc chagall paints i and my village.
1911/--/-- 2 - sir ernest rutherford formulates his theory of atomic structure.
1911/--/-- 2 - the ch'ing dynasty is deposed in china; a republic is formed under sun yat-sen.
1911/--/-- 2 - the first film studio is established at hollywood in california.
1911/--/-- 2 - tibet declares its independence from china.
1911/--/-- 2 - willis carrier designs the first practical air conditioning system.
1911/06/02 2 - george v crowned king of great britain and ireland at westminster abbey by randa
1911/10/-- 2 - world series nl new york (2) al philadelphia (4)
1912/--/-- 3 - american indian jim thorpe wins the olympic decathlon and pentathlon.
1912/--/-- 3 - american author edgar rice burroughs publishes tarzan of the apes.
1912/--/-- 3 - american writer willa cather publishes her first novel alexander's bridge.
1912/--/-- 3 - arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 3 - austrian psychologist alfred adler publishes the neurotic constitution.
1912/--/-- 3 - british explorers under scott reach the south pole but die during their return.
1912/--/-- 3 - french dada artist marcel duchamp paints nude descending a staircase.
1912/--/-- 3 - german geophysicist alfred wegener formulates his continental drift hypothesis.
1912/--/-- 3 - morocco is divided between france and spain after the second moroccan crisis.
1912/--/-- 3 - new mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state.
1912/--/-- 3 - new mexico is inaugurated as the 47th state; arizona is inaugurated as the 48th state.
1912/--/-- 3 - piltdown man is discovered in britain, beginning an elaborate scientific hoax.
1912/--/-- 3 - russian dancer vaslav nijinsky choreographs and dances in the afternoon of the faun.
1912/--/-- 3 - the balkan league begins the first balkan war against the ottoman empire.
1912/--/-- 3 - the liner titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage.
1912/--/-- 3 - theodore roosevelt campaigns for the u.s. presidency under the bull moose ticket.
1912/10/-- 3 - world series nl new york (3) al boston (4)
1912/12/03 4 *** lafever, herschel [brother] - born to lafever, luke gilliam and goff, america alice (lafever)
1913/--/-- 4 - american poet robert frost publishes a boy's will.
1913/--/-- 4 - bertrand russell and a.e. whitehead publish principia mathematica.
1913/--/-- 4 - danish physicist niels bohr publishes his atomic theory.
1913/--/-- 4 - english novelist d.h. lawrence publishes sons and lovers.
1913/--/-- 4 - federal income tax is introduced in the u.s.
1913/--/-- 4 - igor stravinsky's ballet the rite of spring causes a scandal at the paris premiere.
1913/--/-- 4 - indian poet rabindranath tagore wins the nobel prize for literature.
1913/--/-- 4 - king george i of greece is assassinated; he is succeeded by constantine i
1913/--/-- 4 - marcel proust writes the first volume of remembrance of things past.
1913/--/-- 4 - medical missionary albert schweitzer builds a hospital at lambarene in africa.
1913/--/-- 4 - russian revolutionary joseph stalin is exiled to siberia by the tsarist government.
1913/--/-- 4 - samuel goldwyn founds his first movie company with jesse lasky and cecil b. de mille.
1913/--/-- 4 - socialists sidney and beatrice webb found the political journal the new statesman.
1913/--/-- 4 - the constructivism art movement begins in russia.
1913/--/-- 4 - the island of crete is united with greece.
1913/--/-- 4 - the second balkan war begins with a bulgarian attack on serbia.
1913/--/-- 4 - victoriano huerta leads a military coup in mexico; president francisco madero is killed.
1913/--/-- 4 - wilson is inaugurated as the 28th u.s. president; marshall becomes vice-president.
1913/--/-- 4 - woodrow wilson (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1913/10/-- 4 - world series nl new york (1) al philadelphia (4)
1913/12/25 5 *** lafever, ella odell (goff) [1st cousin once removed] & goff, charlie clay [uncle] - married married in putnam county tennessee
1914/--/-- 5 - a british expedition led by ernest shackleton is marooned in the antarctic.
1914/--/-- 5 - a german fleet defeats the british at coronel but is decimated at the falklands.
1914/--/-- 5 - archduke franz ferdinand is assassinated in sarajevo, precipitating world war i.
1914/--/-- 5 - austrian forces invade serbia but are repulsed with heavy losses.
1914/--/-- 5 - black composer w.c. handy writes the st. louis blues.
1914/--/-- 5 - charlie chaplin develops his little tramp character in a series of slapstick films.
1914/--/-- 5 - france, russia and britain (the allies) are at war with germany and austria-hungary.
1914/--/-- 5 - george bernard shaw's play pygmallion is performed for the first time.
1914/--/-- 5 - german forces invade belgium and france but are halted at the marne.
1914/--/-- 5 - german submarines begin to exact a heavy toll on allied shipping.
1914/--/-- 5 - japan joins the allies and captures the german base of tsingtao in china.
1914/--/-- 5 - mack sennett produces comedy films starring the keystone kops.
1914/--/-- 5 - parisian couturier coco chanel begins designing clothes.
1914/--/-- 5 - president wilson declares u.s. neutrality in world war i.
1914/--/-- 5 - russian forces invade east prussia but are defeated at the battle of tannenberg.
1914/--/-- 5 - the panama canal is completed, connecting the atlantic and pacific oceans.
1914/--/-- 5 - turkey declares war on the allies; britain annexes turkish cyprus.
1914/--/-- 5 - u.s. marines land at veracruz in mexico; president huerta resigns.
1914/--/-- 5 - world war i begins
1914/05/27 5 *** elrod, john t. [great grandfather] - died putnam county, tn - judd cemetery
1914/09/13 5 *** goff, delbert hise [uncle] - born to goff, james m. -jimmy- and bozarth, mary elizabeth "betty" (goff) baxter, tennessee
1914/10/-- 5 - world series nl boston (4) al philadelphia (0)
1915/--/-- 6 - a german submarine torpedoes the british liner lusitania; 124 americans are killed.
1915/--/-- 6 - albert einstein formulates his general theory of relativity.
1915/--/-- 6 - anglo-french forces land at gallipoli in an attempt to force turkey out of the war.
1915/--/-- 6 - austrian writer franz kafka publishes the metamorphosis.
1915/--/-- 6 - d. w. griffith's movie the birth of a nation is shown for the first time.
1915/--/-- 6 - emiliano zapata and pancho villa lead rebellions against venustiano carranza in mexico.
1915/--/-- 6 - english author somerset maugham publishes of human bondage.
1915/--/-- 6 - german zeppelin airships begin bombing attacks on britain.
1915/--/-- 6 - italy joins the allies and invades austrian territory.
1915/--/-- 6 - president wilson recognizes the mexican government of venustiano carranza.
1915/--/-- 6 - serbia is overrun by the combined forces of austria, germany and bulgaria.
1915/--/-- 6 - the anzacs (australian and new zealand army corps) fight at gallipoli.
1915/--/-- 6 - the dada art and literary movement is formed.
1915/--/-- 6 - the germans use poison gas for the first time at ypres on the western front.
1915/--/-- 6 - u.s. marines land in haiti, beginning a 20-year period of military occupation.
1915/--/-- 6 - war poet rupert brooke's 1914 and other poems is published in the year he dies.
1915/01/06 6 *** goff, dovie ellen [2nd cousin] - born to goff, charlie clay and lafever, ella odell (goff) silver point, dekalb county tennessee
1915/02/06 6 *** lafever, ruba ada (dilldine) [sister] - born to lafever, luke gilliam and goff, america alice (lafever)
1915/10/-- 6 - world series nl philadelphia (1) al boston (4)
1916/--/-- 7 - albert einstein proposes general theory of relativity
1916/--/-- 7 - allied forces withdraw from gallipoli after strong turkish opposition.
1916/--/-- 7 - american poet carl sandburg publishes his first book chicago poems.
1916/--/-- 7 - british forces assault the german line at the somme; tanks are used for the first time.
1916/--/-- 7 - german assaults at verdun are repulsed by the french with great loss of life.
1916/--/-- 7 - james joyce publishes a portrait of the artist as a young man.
1916/--/-- 7 - jeannette rankin becomes the first female member of u.s. house of representatives.
1916/--/-- 7 - lloyd george becomes prime minister of britain's wartime coalition government.
1916/--/-- 7 - margaret sanger is arrested for opening a birth-control clinic in brooklyn.
1916/--/-- 7 - north sea storms flood lowlands in the netherlands, 10,000 lives are lost.
1916/--/-- 7 - t. tzara dada
1916/--/-- 7 - the british and german fleets clash at the battle of jutland.
1916/--/-- 7 - the easter rising in dublin is suppressed within a week by the british.
1916/--/-- 7 - the russian brusilov offensive meets with success on the eastern front.
1916/--/-- 7 - the trans-siberian railway is completed -- the longest continuous rail line in the world.
1916/--/-- 7 - u.s. marines land in santo domingo to quell unrest; the occupation lasts until 1924.
1916/--/-- 7 - u.s. troops under pershing invade mexico in retaliation for raids by pancho villa.
1916/10/-- 7 - world series nl brooklyn (1) al boston (4)
1916/10/16 7 *** goff, della myrtis [2nd cousin] - born to goff, charlie clay and lafever, ella odell (goff) silver point, dekalb county tn
1917/--/-- 8 *** sherrell, william jordan & lafever, mary canzada [1st cousin] - married
1917/--/-- 8 - adoption of the convoy system reduces allied losses to german submarines.
1917/--/-- 8 - anglo-american poet t.s. eliot publishes the love song of j. alfred prufrock.
1917/--/-- 8 - art critic and writer guillaume apollinaire coins the term surrealism.
1917/--/-- 8 - astrophysicist karl schwarzschild develops the black hole theory.
1917/--/-- 8 - blacks migrate north and west
1917/--/-- 8 - british forces attack the germans in the third battle of ypres.
1917/--/-- 8 - british forces under allenby capture jerusalem and bagdhad from the turks.
1917/--/-- 8 - dutch artists theo van doesburg and piet mondrian found the magazine de stijl.
1917/--/-- 8 - english composer gustav holst completes the planets.
1917/--/-- 8 - english humorist p.g. wodehouse creates bertie wooster and his butler jeeves.
1917/--/-- 8 - germany announces the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917/--/-- 8 - italian forces are defeated by austria at the battle of caporetto.
1917/--/-- 8 - russian revolutions: communist u.s.s.r. formed
1917/--/-- 8 - selective service act creates draft
1917/--/-- 8 - swiss psychiatrist carl jung publishes the psychology of the unconscious.
1917/--/-- 8 - t.e. lawrence (lawrence of arabia) leads the arab revolt against the turks.
1917/--/-- 8 - the balfour declaration endorses a jewish national homeland in palestine.
1917/--/-- 8 - the germans and the bolshevik leaders sign an armistice at brest-litovsk.
1917/--/-- 8 - the germans help lenin return to russia from exile in switzerland.
1917/--/-- 8 - the jones act gives all puerto ricans the right to u.s. citizenship.
1917/--/-- 8 - the russian revolution begins; emperor nicholas ii abdicates.
1917/--/-- 8 - the u.s. purchases the virgin islands from denmark.
1917/--/-- 8 - the united states declares war on germany.
1917/--/-- 8 - the zimmermann note proposing a secret mexican alliance with germany is revealed.
1917/--/-- 8 - the disastrous nivelle offensive leads to mutinies in the french army.
1917/--/-- 8 - the earliest jazz recordings are made in new york city.
1917/--/-- 8 - the first pulitzer prizes are awarded for journalism, letters and music.
1917/--/-- 8 - the provisional kerensky government is deposed; bolsheviks seize power in russia.
1917/06/29 8 *** lafever, lonnie oscar [brother] - born to lafever, luke gilliam and goff, america alice (lafever)
1917/10/-- 8 - world series nl new york (2) al chicago (4)
1918/--/-- 9 - advances by french, british and american armies force a general german retreat.
1918/--/-- 9 - american astronomer harlow shapley discovers the dimensions of the milky way.
1918/--/-- 9 - american author booth tarkington writes the magnificent ambersons.
1918/--/-- 9 - american forcesunder pershing help to stem the german offensive.
1918/--/-- 9 - an airmail service begins among new york, philadelphia and washington, d.c.
1918/--/-- 9 - an influenza pandemic begins (it kills 21-22 million in 2 years).
1918/--/-- 9 - austria, poland and czechoslovakia become republics in the aftermath of world war i.
1918/--/-- 9 - bloomsbury group member lytton strachey publishes eminent victorians.
1918/--/-- 9 - bolshevik leader leon trotsky organizes the red army.
1918/--/-- 9 - civil war breaks out between the red and white russian armies.
1918/--/-- 9 - french composer erik satie writes socrate.
1918/--/-- 9 - german air ace manfred von richthofen (the red baron) is shot down and killed.
1918/--/-- 9 - nicholas ii, the last emperor of russia, and his family are executed by the bolsheviks.
1918/--/-- 9 - revolution breaks out in germany; emperor william ii flees to the netherlands.
1918/--/-- 9 - shapley determines sun is part of milky way galaxy
1918/--/-- 9 - the germans renew their assault on the western front in the ludendorff offensive.
1918/--/-- 9 - the weimar republic negotiates an armistice for germany, ending world war i.
1918/--/-- 9 - the world's largest telescope is installed at mount wilson observatory.
1918/--/-- 9 - women over 30 win the vote in britain.
1918/10/-- 9 - world series nl chicago (2) al boston (4)
1918/11/11 10 *** goff, bethel ralph [2nd cousin] - born to goff, charlie clay and lafever, ella odell (goff) silver point, dekalb county tn
1919/--/-- 10 - boxer jack dempsey knocks out jess willard to become heavyweight champion.
1919/--/-- 10 - british troops massacre demonstrators at amritsar in india.
1919/--/-- 10 - english aviators alcock and brown make the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1919/--/-- 10 - french tennis star suzanne lenglen wins the wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1919/--/-- 10 - george gershwin composes his first hit song swanee.
1919/--/-- 10 - german communist rosa luxemburg is murdered after the sparticus uprising.
1919/--/-- 10 - italian leader benito mussolini organizes his fascist movement.
1919/--/-- 10 - jan smuts succeeds louis botha as prime minister of south africa.
1919/--/-- 10 - lady astor becomes the first woman member of the british house of commons.
1919/--/-- 10 - league of nations
1919/--/-- 10 - mexican revolutionary emiliano zapata is killed.
1919/--/-- 10 - russian-american anarchist emma goldman is deported to the soviet union.
1919/--/-- 10 - the bauhaus school of design is founded in germany by walter gropius.
1919/--/-- 10 - the chicago white sox conspire to fix the baseball world series.
1919/--/-- 10 - the german fleet is scuttled at scapa flow in the orkney islands.
1919/--/-- 10 - the league of nations is formed with geneva in switzerland as its headquarters.
1919/--/-- 10 - the paris peace conference opens at versailles.
1919/--/-- 10 - the polish-soviet war begins over territorial disputes.
1919/--/-- 10 - the radio corporation of america (rca) is formed.
1919/--/-- 10 - versailles peace treaty
1919/--/-- 10 - world war i ends
1919/10/-- 10 - world series nl cincinnati (5) al chicago (3)
1919/11/24 11 *** lafever, beecher franklin [brother] - born to lafever, luke gilliam and goff, america alice (lafever)
1920/--/-- 11 - 18th amendment prohibits alcohol
1920/--/-- 11 - 19th amendment gives women right to vote
1920/--/-- 11 - a home rule bill establishes parliaments for northern and southern ireland.
1920/--/-- 11 - admiral miklos horthy is appointed regent of hungary.
1920/--/-- 11 - adolf hitler forms the national socialist german workers' (nazi) party.
1920/--/-- 11 - american novelist sinclair lewis publishes main street.
1920/--/-- 11 - american tennis star bill tilden wins the wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1920/--/-- 11 - arturo alessandri becomes president of chile.
1920/--/-- 11 - british east africa becomes a crown colony as kenya.
1920/--/-- 11 - chaim weizmann is named president of the world zionist organization.
1920/--/-- 11 - dutch artist piet mondrian paints the composition with red, yellow and blue.
1920/--/-- 11 - french art deco glassmaker rene lalique opens a glass factory.
1920/--/-- 11 - german east africa is transferred to british control as tanganyika (now tanzania).
1920/--/-- 11 - mahatma gandhi begins a noncooperation campaign against british rule in india.
1920/--/-- 11 - mexican president venustiano carranza is deposed and killed by alvaro obregon.
1920/--/-- 11 - mystery writer agatha christie publishes her first hercule poirot story.
1920/--/-- 11 - russian artist aleksandr rodchenko designs the first mobile.
1920/--/-- 11 - the 18th amendment institutes the prohibition of alcohol throughout the u.s.
1920/--/-- 11 - the 19th amendment to the u.s. constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920/--/-- 11 - the russian civil war ends with victory for the bolsheviks.
1920/--/-- 11 - the u.s. senate votes against joining the league of nations.
1920/08/09 11 *** goff, nodie mae [2nd cousin] - born to goff, charlie clay and lafever, ella odell (goff) silver point, dekalb county tn
1920/10/-- 11 - world series nl brooklyn (2) al cleveland (5)
1921/--/-- 12 - alexander rules the new kingdom of serbs, croats and slovenes.
1921/--/-- 12 - american anarchists nicola sacco and bartolomeo vanzetti are found guilty of murder.
1921/--/-- 12 - berber tribes under abd el-krim attack garrisons in spanish morocco.
1921/--/-- 12 - french cubist artist fernand leger paints three women.
1921/--/-- 12 - german surrealist artist max ernst paints l'elephant celebes.
1921/--/-- 12 - harding is inaugurated as the 29th u.s. president; coolidge becomes vice-president.
1921/--/-- 12 - japanese premier hara takashi is assassinated.
1921/--/-- 12 - latin lover rudolph valentino stars in the silent film the sheik.
1921/--/-- 12 - luigi pirandello's play six characters in search of an author is produced.
1921/--/-- 12 - mexican artist diego rivera begins painting murals depicting contemporary mexican life.
1921/--/-- 12 - the british broadcasting corporation (bbc) is created by royal charter.
1921/--/-- 12 - the irish free state becomes a self-governing dominion of britain.
1921/--/-- 12 - the reparations commission fixes germany's liability at 132 billion gold marks.
1921/--/-- 12 - w. l. mackenzie king is elected prime minister of canada for the first time.
1921/--/-- 12 - warren g. harding (republican) becomes president of the united states
1921/10/-- 12 - world series nl new york (5) al new york (3)
1922/--/-- 13 - anglo-american poet t.s. eliot writes the waste land.
1922/--/-- 13 - constantine i abdicates as king of greece; is succeeded by george ii.
1922/--/-- 13 - dewitt wallace launches reader's digest magazine.
1922/--/-- 13 - egypt achieves independence from britain and becomes a monarchy under fuad i.
1922/--/-- 13 - emily post publishes etiquette in society, in business, in politics, and at home.
1922/--/-- 13 - english egyptologist howard carter excavates tutankhamen's tomb.
1922/--/-- 13 - english composer william walton composes facade.
1922/--/-- 13 - explorer roy chapman andrews discovers the first fossil dinosaur eggs in the gobi desert.
1922/--/-- 13 - irish poet and novelist james joyce publishes ulysses.
1922/--/-- 13 - irish revolutionary statesman michael collins is assassinated.
1922/--/-- 13 - kemal ataturk's attempts to restore turkish territory leads to the chanak crisis.
1922/--/-- 13 - mahatma gandhi is imprisoned for civil disobedience in india.
1922/--/-- 13 - robert flaherty produces the first major film documentary nanook of the north.
1922/--/-- 13 - the fascists march on rome; king victor emmanuel iii names mussolini prime minister.
1922/--/-- 13 - william t. cosgrave becomes the first prime minister of the irish free state.
1922/03/14 13 *** lafever, lena dora (sweet) [sister] - born to lafever, luke gilliam and goff, america alice (lafever)
1922/03/14 13 *** lafever, nora linnie (bristow) [sister] - born to lafever, luke gilliam and goff, america alice (lafever) baxter, tennessee
1922/10/-- 13 - world series nl new york (4) al new york (0)
1923/--/-- 14 - "king" oliver's creole jazz band is the first black band to be recorded.
1923/--/-- 14 - adolf hitler's coup d'etat in munich fails; he is captured and imprisoned.
1923/--/-- 14 - aircraft designer willy messerschmitt opens a factory in germany.
1923/--/-- 14 - american poet e. e. cummings writes the novel the enormous room.
1923/--/-- 14 - briton hadden and henry r. luce found the weekly newsmagazine time.
1923/--/-- 14 - calvin coolidge (republican) becomes president of the united states
1923/--/-- 14 - child violinist yehudi menuhin makes his public debut at age 7.
1923/--/-- 14 - filmmaker cecil b. de mille directs the biblical epic the ten commandments.
1923/--/-- 14 - french and belgian troops occupy the ruhr to enforce german war reparations.
1923/--/-- 14 - general miguel primo de rivera rules as dictator of spain.
1923/--/-- 14 - irish poet william butler yeats wins the nobel prize for literature.
1923/--/-- 14 - italy becomes first fascist state
1923/--/-- 14 - jewish philosopher martin buber publishes ich und du (i and thou).
1923/--/-- 14 - physicist hermann oberth publishes the rocket into planetary space.
1923/--/-- 14 - spanish engineer juan de la cierva invents the autogiro.
1923/--/-- 14 - stanley baldwin becomes conservative prime minister of britain for the first time.
1923/--/-- 14 - the treaty of lausanne establishes the boundaries of modern turkey.
1923/--/-- 14 - tokyo and yokohama are destroyed by an earthquake; 100,000 are killed.
1923/--/-- 14 - turkey is declared a republic; ataturk kemal becomes the first president.
1923/--/-- 14 - vladimir zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube.
1923/--/-- 14 - warren g. harding dies; calvin coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th u.s. president.
1923/02/13 14 *** goff, elizabeth jewell (williams) [2nd cousin] - born to goff, charlie clay and lafever, ella odell (goff) dekalb county tennessee
1923/10/-- 14 - world series nl new york (2) al new york (4)
1924/--/-- 15 - adolf hitler publishes his nazi political tract mein kampf (my battle).
1924/--/-- 15 - arab leader ibn saud drives the hashimites from mecca.
1924/--/-- 15 - english novelist e.m. forster publishes a passage to india.
1924/--/-- 15 - french physicist louis de broglie proposes the wavelength nature of particles.
1924/--/-- 15 - german novelist thomas mann publishes the magic mountain.
1924/--/-- 15 - j. edgar hoover is appointed director of the bureau of investigation (renamed the fbi).
1924/--/-- 15 - ramsay macdonald forms the first labour government in britain.
1924/--/-- 15 - schrodinger proposes wave mechanics
1924/--/-- 15 - soviet leader lenin dies; new leader joseph stalin begins a purge of his opponents.
1924/--/-- 15 - the boston bruins become the first professional ice hockey team.
1924/--/-- 15 - the military declare a republic in greece; king george ii is exiled.
1924/--/-- 15 - u.s. congress investigates suspicious dealings in the teapot dome scandal.
1924/08/29 15 *** lafever, alice lorene (allison) [sister] - born to lafever, luke gilliam and goff, america alice (lafever)
1924/10/-- 15 - world series nl new york (3) al washington (4)
1925/--/-- 16 - ahmed zogu proclaims albania a monarchy and rules as king zog.
1925/--/-- 16 - american writer f. scott fitzgerald publishes the great gatsby.
1925/--/-- 16 - american writer john dos passos publishes manhattan transfer.
1925/--/-- 16 - astronomer edwin hubble composes a classification scheme for galaxies.
1925/--/-- 16 - automaker walter p. chrysler founds the chrysler corporation.
1925/--/-- 16 - black american dancer josephine baker stars in la revue negre in paris.
1925/--/-- 16 - clarence birdseye begins marketing his quick-frozen food packages.
1925/--/-- 16 - friedrich ebert dies; paul von hindenburg becomes president of the german republic.
1925/--/-- 16 - john t. scopes is tried in tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution.
1925/--/-- 16 - reza shah pahlavi rules as shah of iran.
1925/--/-- 16 - russian filmmaker sergei eisenstein directs the battleship potemkin.
1925/--/-- 16 - swiss-born artist paul klee paints fish magic.
1925/--/-- 16 - the locarno pact finalizes the treaties between the world war i protagonists.
1925/--/-- 16 - the new yorker magazine is founded in new york city.
1925/--/-- 16 - the all-black revue runnin' wild introduces the charleston dance craze.
1925/04/13 16 *** goff, ross [2nd cousin] - born to goff, charlie clay and lafever, ella odell (goff)
1925/04/14 16 *** goff, ross [2nd cousin] - died
1925/10/-- 16 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al washington (3)
1926/--/-- 17 - american artist georgia o'keeffe paints her flower portrait black iris.
1926/--/-- 17 - american golfer bobby jones wins the u.s. open and the british open tournaments.
1926/--/-- 17 - american physicist robert goddard launches the first liquid-propellant rocket.
1926/--/-- 17 - antonio oscar de fragoso carmona becomes president after a military coup in portugal.
1926/--/-- 17 - chiang kai-shek organizes the northern expedition to unite china.
1926/--/-- 17 - eamon de valera organizes the fianna fail party in the republic of ireland.
1926/--/-- 17 - english author a.a. milne writes the children's book winnie-the-pooh.
1926/--/-- 17 - french troops in morocco subdue a tribal rebellion led by abd el-krim.
1926/--/-- 17 - germany is admitted to the league of nations.
1926/--/-- 17 - hirohito becomes emperor of japan.
1926/--/-- 17 - nobile, amundsen and ellsworth pilot the airship norge over the north pole.
1926/--/-- 17 - richard e. byrd and floyd bennett make the first airplane flight over the north pole.
1926/--/-- 17 - russian composer dmitry shostakovich premiers his first symphony.
1926/--/-- 17 - the general strike breaks out in britain involving 3 million workers.
1926/--/-- 17 - the harlem globetrotters basketball team is organized in chicago.
1926/--/-- 17 - u.s. marines land in nicaragua to suppress a revolution (they depart in 1933).
1926/08/20 17 *** goff, james william clay [2nd cousin] - born to goff, charlie clay and lafever, ella odell (goff) silver point, dekalb county tn
1926/10/-- 17 - world series nl st. louis (4) al new york (3)
1927/--/-- 18 - american dancer isadora duncan is killed in a tragic car accident.
1927/--/-- 18 - american writer thornton wilder publishes the bridge of san luis rey.
1927/--/-- 18 - baseball player babe ruth scores a record 60 home runs for the new york yankees.
1927/--/-- 18 - blackface singer al jolson appears in the first sound motion picture the jazz singer.
1927/--/-- 18 - charles lindbergh flies solo nonstop from new york to paris in 33.5 hours.
1927/--/-- 18 - civil war in china
1927/--/-- 18 - comedy team laurel and hardy appear in their first film putting pants on philip.
1927/--/-- 18 - dancer martha graham opens her first dance studio in new york city.
1927/--/-- 18 - duke ellington's jazz band stars at harlem's cotton club in new york city.
1927/--/-- 18 - english novelist virginia woolf writes to the lighthouse.
1927/--/-- 18 - finnish architect alvar aalto designs the turun sanomat newspaper building.
1927/--/-- 18 - georges lemaitre proposes an expanding model for the creation of the universe.
1927/--/-- 18 - german filmmaker fritz lang directs the futuristic film metropolis.
1927/--/-- 18 - german-swiss author hermann hesse publishes steppenwolf.
1927/--/-- 18 - helen newington wills wins the wimbledon tennis championship.
1927/--/-- 18 - lindbergh crosses atlantic non-stop
1927/--/-- 18 - the iron guard fascist organization is founded in romania.
1927/05/01 18 *** lafever, myrtle elvira (love) & love, james hosie [husband] - married
1927/07/20 18 *** lafever, kenneth edward [brother] - born to lafever, luke gilliam and goff, america alice (lafever)
1927/08/31 18 *** lafever, james monroe [uncle] - died pleasant view cem. putnam county tn
1927/10/-- 18 - world series nl pittsburgh (0) al new york (4)
1928/--/-- 19 - amelia earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the atlantic.
1928/--/-- 19 - american anthropologist margaret mead publishes coming of age in samoa.
1928/--/-- 19 - american comedy team amos 'n' andy produce their first radio show.
1928/--/-- 19 - american composer virgil thomson writes the opera four saints in three acts.
1928/--/-- 19 - arturo toscanini is made conductor of the new york philharmonic.
1928/--/-- 19 - ben hecht and charles macarthur's play the front page is produced.
1928/--/-- 19 - bertolt brecht and kurt weill collaborate on the play the threepenny opera.
1928/--/-- 19 - british bacteriologist alexander fleming discovers penicillin.
1928/--/-- 19 - chiang kai-shek captures peking; the kuomintang government is established.
1928/--/-- 19 - english novelist evelyn waugh publishes decline and fall.
1928/--/-- 19 - english physicist paul dirac formulates a mathematical description of elementary particles.
1928/--/-- 19 - french composer maurice ravel composes the ballet bolero.
1928/--/-- 19 - heisenberg's uncertainty principle
1928/--/-- 19 - luis bunuel and salvador dali collaborate on the surrealist film un chien andalou.
1928/--/-- 19 - spanish poet federico garcia lorca publishes gypsy ballads.
1928/--/-- 19 - the chaco war breaks out between bolivia and paraguay over territorial disputes.
1928/--/-- 19 - the kellog-briand pact outlawing war is signed by 15 nations.
1928/--/-- 19 - the first five-year plan for economic reform begins in the soviet union.
1928/--/-- 19 - walt disney's mickey mouse appears in steamboat willie, the first sound cartoon.
1928/04/19 19 *** goff, ida helen [2nd cousin] - born to goff, charlie clay and lafever, ella odell (goff) silver point, dekalb county tn
1928/10/-- 19 - world series nl st. louis (0) al new york (4)
1929/--/-- 20 - alexander institutes absolute rule as king of yugoslavia.
1929/--/-- 20 - american explorer richard e. byrd flies over the south pole.
1929/--/-- 20 - american novelist william faulkner publishes the sound and the fury.
1929/--/-- 20 - british poet robert graves publishes his war memoir goodbye to all that.
1929/--/-- 20 - erich maria remarque publishes his war novel all quiet on the western front.
1929/--/-- 20 - ernest hemingway writes the war novel a farewell to arms.
1929/--/-- 20 - french artist and writer jean cocteau publishes les enfants terribles.
1929/--/-- 20 - heinrich himmler is appointed head of the ss, hitler's blackshirted elite guard.
1929/--/-- 20 - herbert c. hoover (republican) becomes president of the united states
1929/--/-- 20 - hoover is inaugurated as the 31st u.s. president; curtis becomes vice-president.
1929/--/-- 20 - jews and arabs clash at the wailing wall in jerusalem.
1929/--/-- 20 - seven chicago gangsters are machine-gunned in the st. valentine's day massacre.
1929/--/-- 20 - soviet leader joseph stalin exiles leon trotsky.
1929/--/-- 20 - stock market crashes
1929/--/-- 20 - the lateran treaty creates the independent state of the vatican city.
1929/--/-- 20 - the museum of modern art (moma) is founded in new york city.
1929/--/-- 20 - the wall street crash leads to a world-wide economic depression.
1929/--/-- 20 - the workers party of america is renamed the communist party of the united states.
1929/--/-- 20 - the first academy awards are presented; wings wins best-picture prize.
1929/09/13 20 *** lafever, treva lucille (goodwin) [sister] - born to lafever, luke gilliam and goff, america alice (lafever)
1929/10/-- 20 - world series nl chicago (1) al philadelphia (4)
1930/--/-- 21 - american artist edward hopper paints early sunday morning.
1930/--/-- 21 - american astronomer clyde w. tombaugh discovers the planet pluto.
1930/--/-- 21 - american poet hart crane publishes the bridge.
1930/--/-- 21 - artist grant wood paints american gothic.
1930/--/-- 21 - british engineer frank whittle patents a gas turbine engine for jet aircraft.
1930/--/-- 21 - carol ii is proclaimed king of romania.
1930/--/-- 21 - dashiell hammett publishes the detective novel the maltese falcon.
1930/--/-- 21 - english-born american writer w. h. auden publishes his poems.
1930/--/-- 21 - getulio vargas is appointed president of brazil after a military coup.
1930/--/-- 21 - haile selassie is declared emperor of ethiopia.
1930/--/-- 21 - marlene dietrich stars in josef von sternberg's film the blue angel.
1930/--/-- 21 - noel coward's play private lives is produced in london.
1930/--/-- 21 - the british airship r101 crashes in france.
1930/--/-- 21 - the city of constantinople is re-named istanbul.
1930/--/-- 21 - vannevar bush develops a differential analyzer, an early type of analog computer.
1930/--/-- 21 - worldwide depression begins
1930/01/15 21 *** goff, albert owen [2nd cousin] - born to goff, charlie clay and lafever, ella odell (goff) silver point, dekalb county tn
1930/10/-- 21 - world series nl st. louis (2) al philadelphia (4)
1931/--/-- 22 - american cartoonist chester gould creates the adventure comic strip dick tracy.
1931/--/-- 22 - american journalist and writer damon runyon publishes guys and dolls.
1931/--/-- 22 - american writer pearl buck publishes the good earth.
1931/--/-- 22 - auguste piccard makes the first manned balloon flight into the stratosphere.
1931/--/-- 22 - ben shahn begins a series of paintings inspired by the sacco-vanzetti case.
1931/--/-- 22 - chicago gangster al capone is jailed for income tax evasion.
1931/--/-- 22 - explorer george hubert wilkins makes a submarine voyage under the arctic ice.
1931/--/-- 22 - japanese forces occupy manchuria.
1931/--/-- 22 - lawrence invents cyclotron
1931/--/-- 22 - organic chemist w. h. carothers invents nylon, the first successful synthetic fiber.
1931/--/-- 22 - radio astronomy begins when karl jansky detects radio waves from space.
1931/--/-- 22 - spain is declared a republic; king alfonso xiii abdicates.
1931/--/-- 22 - the empire state building becomes the tallest building in the world.
1931/--/-- 22 - the star-spangled banner becomes the u.s. national anthem.
1931/10/-- 22 - world series nl st. louis (4) al philadelphia (3)
1932/--/-- 23 *** lafever, mary canzada [1st cousin] - died
1932/--/-- 23 - american physicist carl d. anderson discovers the positron.
1932/--/-- 23 - american sculptor alexander calder creates his first mobile.
1932/--/-- 23 - american southern author erskine caldwell publishes tobacco road.
1932/--/-- 23 - antonio de oliveira salazar assumes dictatorial powers as premier of portugal.
1932/--/-- 23 - arab leader ibn saud founds the kingdom of saudi arabia.
1932/--/-- 23 - british author aldous huxley publishes brave new world.
1932/--/-- 23 - charles lindbergh's infant son is kidnapped.
1932/--/-- 23 - eamon de valera is elected president of the republic of ireland.
1932/--/-- 23 - engelbert dollfuss is elected chancellor of austria.
1932/--/-- 23 - english physicist james chadwick discovers the neutron.
1932/--/-- 23 - presidential nominee franklin d. roosevelt pledges a new deal.
1932/--/-- 23 - radio city music hall opens in new york city's rockefeller center.
1932/--/-- 23 - revolution in siam (thailand) replaces the monarchy with a constitutional government.
1932/--/-- 23 - sir oswald mosley founds the british union of fascists.
1932/--/-- 23 - the bonus army of war veterans is dispersed by troops in washington, d.c.
1932/--/-- 23 - the royal shakespeare theater opens at stratford-on-avon, england.
1932/--/-- 23 - the first particle accelerator is built at the cavendish laboratory in england.
1932/01/26 23 *** goff, joe hughlee [2nd cousin] - born to goff, charlie clay and lafever, ella odell (goff)
1932/02/10 23 *** love, jimmie goff [son] - born to love, james hosie and lafever, myrtle elvira (love)
1932/10/-- 23 - world series nl chicago (0) al new york (4)
1933/--/-- 24 - a fossilized skull of the prehistoric steinheim man is found in germany.
1933/--/-- 24 - actor charles laughton stars in the film the private life of henry viii.
1933/--/-- 24 - busby berkeley choreographs the dances for the film gold diggers of 1933.
1933/--/-- 24 - dancers fred astaire and ginger rogers star in the film flying down to rio.
1933/--/-- 24 - edwin armstrong invents frequency modulation (fm) to eliminate radio static.
1933/--/-- 24 - fiorello la guardia is elected mayor of new york city for the first time.
1933/--/-- 24 - frances perkins becomes the first woman cabinet member in u.s. history.
1933/--/-- 24 - franklin d. roosevelt (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1933/--/-- 24 - french novelist and political activist andre malraux publishes man's fate.
1933/--/-- 24 - fulgencio batista leads a military coup against gerardo machado y morales in cuba.
1933/--/-- 24 - jimmy and tommy dorsey found their first swing band.
1933/--/-- 24 - joseph goebbels is appointed as minister of propaganda for the nazi party.
1933/--/-- 24 - mae west stars in the films she done him wrong and i'm no angel.
1933/--/-- 24 - norwegian fascist vidkun quisling founds the national unity party.
1933/--/-- 24 - president paul von hindenburg names adolf hitler as chancellor of germany.
1933/--/-- 24 - roosevelt begins "new deal"
1933/--/-- 24 - roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd u.s. president; garner becomes vice-president.
1933/--/-- 24 - the 21st amendment ends the prohibition era in the u.s.
1933/--/-- 24 - the marx brothers star in the classic comedy film duck soup.
1933/--/-- 24 - the national recovery administration (nra) is launched by president roosevelt.
1933/--/-- 24 - the nazis erect the first concentration camps in germany.
1933/--/-- 24 - the public works administration (pwa) is formed to fund public construction projects.
1933/--/-- 24 - the reichstag fire gives the nazis a pretext for outlawing the german communist party.
1933/--/-- 24 - the stavisky affair causes a financial scandal in france.
1933/04/05 24 *** lafever, betty cleo (cass, mcdonald) [sister] - born to lafever, luke gilliam and goff, america alice (lafever)
1933/04/06 24 *** lafever, jimmie leo [brother] - born to lafever, luke gilliam and goff, america alice (lafever)
1933/06/21 24 *** lafever, jimmie leo [brother] - died boiling springs, tn oct. 1954
1933/10/-- 24 - world series nl new york (4) al washington (1)
1934/--/-- 25 - adolf hitler becomes "fueher" of germany
1934/--/-- 25 - alexander, king of yugoslavia, is assassinated; his son peter ii succeeds him.
1934/--/-- 25 - american cartoonist al capp begins the comic strip li'l abner.
1934/--/-- 25 - chancellor engelbert dollfuss is murdered by austrian nazis.
1934/--/-- 25 - cole porter writes the score for the broadway musical anything goes.
1934/--/-- 25 - drought leads to severe dust storms in the dust bowl region of the great plains.
1934/--/-- 25 - elijah muhammad becomes leader of the nation of islam (the black muslims).
1934/--/-- 25 - fermi creates plutonium
1934/--/-- 25 - george balanchine and lincoln kirstein found the school of american ballet.
1934/--/-- 25 - henry miller publishes the tropic of cancer. (it is banned in the u.s. until 1961.)
1934/--/-- 25 - hitler becomes fuhrer (leader) of germany after hindenburg's death.
1934/--/-- 25 - john dillinger, public enemy number one, is killed by the fbi.
1934/--/-- 25 - lazaro cardenas is chosen by plutarco calles as president of mexico.
1934/--/-- 25 - lillian hellman's play the children's hour is produced.
1934/--/-- 25 - mao tse-tung leads the chinese communists on the long march.
1934/--/-- 25 - naturalist charles w. beebe makes a record dive of 3,028 ft in a bathyscaphe.
1934/--/-- 25 - sa leader ernst roehm is assassinated on the orders of hitler.
1934/--/-- 25 - surrealist artist rene magritte paints the human condition.
1934/--/-- 25 - the british ocean liner queen mary is launched.
1934/--/-- 25 - the federal communications commission (fcc) is formed to regulate broadcasting.
1934/--/-- 25 - the securities and exchange commission (sec) is formed to protect u.s. investors.
1934/01/16 25 *** goff, charlie leon [2nd cousin] - born to goff, charlie clay and lafever, ella odell (goff) silver point, dekalb county tn
1934/04/05 25 *** lafever, charlie columbus [brother] & spears, betty ann (lafever) - married
1934/10/-- 25 - world series nl st. louis (4) al detroit (3)
1935/--/-- 26 - american writer thomas wolfe publishes of time and the river.
1935/--/-- 26 - arthur dempster discovers u-235, the isotope of uranium used in atomic bombs.
1935/--/-- 26 - child film actress shirley temple stars in the little colonel.
1935/--/-- 26 - controversial louisiana senator huey p. long is assassinated.
1935/--/-- 26 - eduard benes succeeds tomas masaryk as president of czechoslovakia.
1935/--/-- 26 - errol flynn stars in the swashbuckling adventure film captain blood.
1935/--/-- 26 - filmmaker alfred hitchcock directs the 39 steps.
1935/--/-- 26 - george gershwin composes the modern american opera porgy and bess.
1935/--/-- 26 - hitler announces german rearmament in violation of the treaty of versailles.
1935/--/-- 26 - italy invades abyssinia (now ethiopia).
1935/--/-- 26 - king of swing benny goodman forms the benny goodman trio.
1935/--/-- 26 - leni riefenstahl directs the nazi propaganda film triumph of the will.
1935/--/-- 26 - physicist hideki yukawa predicts the existence of the meson subatomic particle.
1935/--/-- 26 - robert sherwood's play the petrified forest is produced.
1935/--/-- 26 - scottish physicist robert watson-watt patents the first practical radar system.
1935/--/-- 26 - social security act provides retirement insurance
1935/--/-- 26 - swedish film actress greta garbo stars in anna karenina.
1935/--/-- 26 - the monopoly board game is patented in the u.s.
1935/--/-- 26 - the moscow subway is opened.
1935/--/-- 26 - the nuremberg racial laws deprive german jews of their citizenship.
1935/--/-- 26 - the monarchy is restored in greece under george ii.
1935/05/12 26 *** lafever, james e. [nephew] - born to lafever, charlie columbus and spears, betty ann (lafever)
1935/07/04 26 *** lafever, asher [grandfather] - died putnam county, tn - pleasant view cem.
1935/10/-- 26 - world series nl chicago (2) al detroit (4)
1935/11/12 27 *** goff, margaret viola [2nd cousin] - born to goff, charlie clay and lafever, ella odell (goff) silver point, dekalb county tn
1936/--/-- 27 - black athlete jesse owens wins 4 gold medals at the berlin olympic games.
1936/--/-- 27 - boulder dam is completed in arizona (it is renamed hoover dam in 1947).
1936/--/-- 27 - edward viii abdicates as king of great britain; he is succeeded by george vi.
1936/--/-- 27 - hitler and mussolini announce the rome-berlin axis (alliance).
1936/--/-- 27 - henry r. luce begins publishing life magazine.
1936/--/-- 27 - ioannis metaxas establishes a dictatorship in greece.
1936/--/-- 27 - italy and germany send military forces and aid to support franco in spain.
1936/--/-- 27 - italy annexes abyssinia (ethiopia); emperor haile selassie is exiled.
1936/--/-- 27 - japan concludes the anti-comintern pact with germany.
1936/--/-- 27 - john maynard keynes writes the general theory of employment, interest and money.
1936/--/-- 27 - margaret mitchell publishes her only novel gone with the wind.
1936/--/-- 27 - olympic ice skater sonja henie turns professional.
1936/--/-- 27 - spanish civil war
1936/--/-- 27 - stalin begins the great purge of soviet russia's political and military leadership.
1936/--/-- 27 - the british broadcasting service (bbc) begins the first public television service.
1936/--/-- 27 - the soviet union and the international brigades support the nationalists in spain.
1936/--/-- 27 - the spanish civil war begins when general franco leads a military revolt.
1936/--/-- 27 - the works of the composer dmitry shostakovich are denounced in russia.
1936/01/-- 27 - edward viii succeeds as king of great britain and ireland.
1936/09/04 27 *** dilldine, amon & lafever, ruba ada (dilldine) [sister] - married
1936/10/-- 27 - world series nl new york (2) al new york (4)
1936/12/10 28 - george vi succeeds as king of great britain and ireland upon the abdication of e
1937/--/-- 28 *** lafever, nora linnie (bristow) [sister] - went to richmond, indiana and began working as a domestic servant.
1937/--/-- 28 - american author john steinbeck publishes of mice and men.
1937/--/-- 28 - anastasio somoza garcia becomes president of nicaragua.
1937/--/-- 28 - aviatrix amelia earhart is lost during a flight across the pacific.
1937/--/-- 28 - ballet dancer margot fonteyn debuts in giselle at sadler's wells, london.
1937/--/-- 28 - danish author isak dinesen publishes her autobiography out of africa.
1937/--/-- 28 - dow chemical develops plastics
1937/--/-- 28 - english writer and scholar j.r.r. tolkien publishes the fantasy novel the hobbit.
1937/--/-- 28 - farouk succeeds fuad i as king of egypt.
1937/--/-- 28 - frank lloyd wright begins building the taliesin west complex in arizona.
1937/--/-- 28 - french filmmaker jean renoir directs grand illusion.
1937/--/-- 28 - german aircraft supporting franco's forces destroy the town of guernica in spain.
1937/--/-- 28 - joe louis the brown bomber wins the heavyweight boxing championship.
1937/--/-- 28 - nationalist and communist forces unite to combat the japanese in china.
1937/--/-- 28 - neville chamberlain succeeds stanley baldwin as prime minister of britain.
1937/--/-- 28 - swing bandleader artie shaw records begin the beguine.
1937/--/-- 28 - the duke of windsor (former king edward viii) marries the divorcee mrs. simpson.
1937/--/-- 28 - the german airship hindenburg is destroyed by fire at lakehurst, n.j.
1937/--/-- 28 - the golden gate bridge is opened in san francisco.
1937/--/-- 28 - the japanese invasion of china begins the second sino-japanese war.
1937/05/02 28 - george vi crowned king of great britain and ireland at westminster abbey by cosm
1937/10/-- 28 - world series nl new york (1) al new york (4)
1938/--/-- 29 - a coelacanth, a fish thought extinct for 65 million years, is caught off the cost of africa.
1938/--/-- 29 - american composer aaron copland writes the ballet score for billy the kid.
1938/--/-- 29 - american singer ella fitzgerald records a-tisket, a-tasket.
1938/--/-- 29 - british prime minister neville chamberlain declares "peace for our time."
1938/--/-- 29 - chamberlain and daladier appease hitler at the munich conference.
1938/--/-- 29 - chester carlson invents xerography, the first electrostatic dry-copying process.
1938/--/-- 29 - don budge becomes the first player to win the grand slam (4 tennis championships).
1938/--/-- 29 - general franco isolates the republican forces in spain and attacks catalonia.
1938/--/-- 29 - german chemist otto hahn discovers the principles of nuclear fission.
1938/--/-- 29 - germany occupies the sudetenland in western czechoslovakia.
1938/--/-- 29 - hitler invades austria; a union (anschluss) of austria and germany is proclaimed.
1938/--/-- 29 - hungarian lajos biro invents the first practical ball-point pen.
1938/--/-- 29 - ismet inonu succeeds kemal atuturk as president of turkey.
1938/--/-- 29 - jewish property is attacked in germany in the kristallnacht (night of broken glass).
1938/--/-- 29 - jewish psychoanalyst sigmund freud flees to england to escape nazi persecution.
1938/--/-- 29 - orson welles' radio broadcast of war of the worlds causes panic in the u.s.
1938/--/-- 29 - swing musician glenn miller organizes his band.
1938/--/-- 29 - the house committee on un-american activities investigates u.s. subversives.
1938/--/-- 29 - the u.s. and britain send aid to the chinese in their war against japan.
1938/--/-- 29 - thornton wilder wins the pulitzer prize for his play our town.
1938/--/-- 29 - walt disney's feature-length cartoon snow white and the seven dwarfs is shown.
1938/01/17 29 *** goff, james m. -jimmy- [grandfather] - died goff cem. dekalb county tn
1938/10/-- 29 *** stewart, martha (lafever) & lafever, herschel [brother] - married
1938/10/-- 29 - world series nl chicago (0) al new york (4)
1939/--/-- 30 - american author nathanael west publishes the day of the locust.
1939/--/-- 30 - american novelist john steinbeck publishes the grapes of wrath.
1939/--/-- 30 - an anglo-saxon burial ship is excavated at sutton hoo in england.
1939/--/-- 30 - britain and france declare war on germany but are unable to aid poland.
1939/--/-- 30 - child film actress judy garland stars in the musical the wizard of oz.
1939/--/-- 30 - clark gable and vivien leigh star in the film gone with the wind.
1939/--/-- 30 - english author christopher isherwood publishes goodbye to berlin.
1939/--/-- 30 - foreign ministers ribbentrop and molotov sign the nazi-soviet pact of nonaggression.
1939/--/-- 30 - general franco's forces capture madrid, ending the spanish civil war.
1939/--/-- 30 - germany and italy form the pact of steel military alliance.
1939/--/-- 30 - germany invades poland, beginning world war ii.
1939/--/-- 30 - igor sikorsky develops america's first successful helicopter.
1939/--/-- 30 - italian forces occupy albania; king zog is forced into exile.
1939/--/-- 30 - physical chemist linus pauling publishes the nature of the chemical bond.
1939/--/-- 30 - president roosevelt (prompted by einstein) orders a u.s. effort to build an atomic bomb.
1939/--/-- 30 - president roosevelt declares u.s. neutrality in world war ii.
1939/--/-- 30 - robert gordon menzies succeeds joseph lyons as prime minister of australia.
1939/--/-- 30 - soviet troops invade poland; germany and the ussr partition the country.
1939/--/-- 30 - swiss chemist paul muller discovers the chemical insecticide ddt.
1939/--/-- 30 - the he 176, the first jet airplane, takes to the air in germany.
1939/--/-- 30 - the russo-finnish war begins with the soviet invasion of finland.
1939/--/-- 30 - the first nylon stockings are marketed.
1939/--/-- 30 - world war ii begins
1939/03/03 30 *** elrod, canzada (lafever) [grandmother] - died putnam county, tn - pleasant view cem.
1939/10/-- 30 - world series nl cincinnati (0) al new york (4)
1940/--/-- 31 - american novelist carson mccullers publishes the heart is a lonely hunter.
1940/--/-- 31 - bing crosby, bob hope and dorothy lamour star in the film road to singapore.
1940/--/-- 31 - british air victory in the battle of britain prevents the german invasion of england.
1940/--/-- 31 - cary grant and katharine hepburn star in the film the philadelphia story.
1940/--/-- 31 - ernest hemingway publishes for whom the bell tolls.
1940/--/-- 31 - exiled revolutionary leon trotsky is assassinated in mexico on stalin's orders.
1940/--/-- 31 - general charles de gaulle rallies free french resistance in london.
1940/--/-- 31 - german forces reach paris; vichy france under marshal petain signs an armistice.
1940/--/-- 31 - germany invades denmark and norway; allied forces aid norway but are defeated.
1940/--/-- 31 - italian forces invade egypt but are repulsed; the british invade libya.
1940/--/-- 31 - italy declares war on the allies and invades southern france.
1940/--/-- 31 - japan joins the axis alliance and occupies northern french indochina (vietnam).
1940/--/-- 31 - king carol ii of romania abdicates; romania and hungary join the axis forces.
1940/--/-- 31 - prehistoric cave paintings are discovered at lascaux in france.
1940/--/-- 31 - radar wins battle of britian
1940/--/-- 31 - raymond chandler publishes the detective novel farewell, my lovely.
1940/--/-- 31 - the british expeditionary force is evacuated from dunkerque in france.
1940/--/-- 31 - the german army begins a blitzkrieg attack on holland, belgium, and france.
1940/--/-- 31 - the soviet union annexes the baltic states of lithuania, estonia and latvia.
1940/--/-- 31 - the tacoma narrows bridge collapses because of oscillations caused by the wind.
1940/--/-- 31 - winston churchill becomes british prime minister after chamberlain resigns.
1940/02/14 31 *** dilldine, carolyn june (forsyth) [niece] - born to dilldine, amon and lafever, ruba ada (dilldine)
1940/02/27 31 *** lafever, marjorie (welch) [niece] - born to lafever, herschel and stewart, martha (lafever) winchester, indiana
1940/02/27 31 *** lafever, michael [nephew] - born to lafever, herschel and stewart, martha (lafever) winchester, indiana
1940/10/-- 31 - world series nl cincinnati (4) al detroit (3)
1941/--/-- 32 - a british task force sinks the german pocket battleship bismarck.
1941/--/-- 32 - baseball player joe dimaggio sets a new record for hitting in 56 consecutive games.
1941/--/-- 32 - benchley park computers sabotage german enigma
1941/--/-- 32 - churchill and roosevelt's atlantic charter meeting establishes war and peace aims.
1941/--/-- 32 - german u-boats inflict heavy losses on british shipping in the battle of the atlantic.
1941/--/-- 32 - german paratroopers land on crete and capture the island from the british.
1941/--/-- 32 - german playwright bertholt brecht writes mother courage and her children.
1941/--/-- 32 - germany invades yugoslavia and greece; british forces are evacuated to crete.
1941/--/-- 32 - germany invades the soviet union.
1941/--/-- 32 - gutzon borglum completes the sculptured heads of four presidents at mount rushmore.
1941/--/-- 32 - ho chi minh organizes the viet minh to combat the japanese in indochina.
1941/--/-- 32 - japanese forces capture hong kong and invade malaya and the philippines.
1941/--/-- 32 - karsh's photographic portrait of churchill becomes a symbol of british resistance.
1941/--/-- 32 - nazi leader rudolf hess flies to england on a quixotic peace mission.
1941/--/-- 32 - orson welles directs the film citizen kane.
1941/--/-- 32 - president roosevelt talks of four freedoms in his state of the union speech.
1941/--/-- 32 - swedish film actress greta garbo retires.
1941/--/-- 32 - the german africa corps under erwin rommel begins an offensive in north africa.
1941/--/-- 32 - the german blitz, the nighttime bombing of london, is at its height.
1941/--/-- 32 - the german advance on moscow is halted by the winter weather.
1941/--/-- 32 - the japanese bomb pearl harbor; america enters world war ii.
1941/--/-- 32 - the japanese occupy indochina and move into cambodia (kampuchea) and thailand.
1941/--/-- 32 - the lend-lease act allows the transfer of u.s. war materials to britain and china.
1941/--/-- 32 - the u.s. freezes japanese assets in retaliation for japan's territorial aggression.
1941/--/-- 32 - u.s. troops occupy iceland to forestall its occupation by germany.
1941/09/09 32 *** lafever, lilly meirl (williams) [niece] - born to lafever, charlie columbus and spears, betty ann (lafever)
1941/10/-- 32 - world series nl brooklyn (1) al new york (4)
1942/--/-- 33 *** lafever, nora linnie (bristow) [sister] - began work in a factory in richmond, indiana
1942/--/-- 33 - a russian counterattack isolates the sixth army at stalingrad; hitler orders no retreat.
1942/--/-- 33 - a u.s. fleet defeats the japanese at the battle of midway.
1942/--/-- 33 - actor james cagney wins an academy award for the film yankee doodle dandie.
1942/--/-- 33 - american b-25 bombers make the doolittle raid on tokyo.
1942/--/-- 33 - american and filipino forces retreat to the bataan peninsula in the philippines.
1942/--/-- 33 - american crooner bing crosby records the hit song white christmas.
1942/--/-- 33 - american forces in the philippines surrender; the bataan death march begins.
1942/--/-- 33 - american humorist james thurber publishes the secret life of walter mitty.
1942/--/-- 33 - french writer albert camus publishes the stranger.
1942/--/-- 33 - gandhi is arrested after the quit india movement demands a british withdrawal.
1942/--/-- 33 - general macarthur is ordered to the leave the philippines; he vows i shall return.
1942/--/-- 33 - german forces occupy vichy france; the french fleet is scuttled in toulon harbor.
1942/--/-- 33 - hitler proposes the final solution of the jewish question; the holocaust begins.
1942/--/-- 33 - humphrey bogart and ingrid bergman star in the classic film casablanca.
1942/--/-- 33 - italian filmmaker luchino visconti directs his first film ossessione.
1942/--/-- 33 - manhattan project scientists under fermi produce the first controlled chain reaction.
1942/--/-- 33 - rommel's africa corps capture tobruk and drive the british back to egypt.
1942/--/-- 33 - the british eighth army under montgomery begins a new drive into libya.
1942/--/-- 33 - the german advance in the caucasus is halted at stalingrad (now volgograd).
1942/--/-- 33 - the german advance on egypt is halted at the battle of el-alamein.
1942/--/-- 33 - the japanese conquer malaya, singapore, indonesia and burma.
1942/--/-- 33 - the raf makes the first 1,000 bomber raid on the german city of cologne.
1942/--/-- 33 - the soviet southern offensive is halted; the germans advance on the caucasus.
1942/--/-- 33 - the u.s. government transfers 110,000 japanese americans to internment camps.
1942/--/-- 33 - u.s. marines invade guadalcanal, beginning the campaign of re-conquest.
1942/--/-- 33 - u.s. forces under general eisenhower invade morocco and algeria.
1942/--/-- 33 - v-2 (vengeance weapon 2) rockets are tested at peenemunde in germany.
1942/03/04 33 *** lafever, lena dora (sweet) [sister] & sweet, richard - married
1942/04/27 33 *** bristow, jesse willard & lafever, nora linnie (bristow) [sister] - married married in albany, ky while jesse was awol from ww ii.
1942/09/01 33 *** lafever, beecher franklin [brother] & huntington, jerry avanelle (lafever) - married
1942/10/-- 33 - world series nl st. louis (4) al new york (1)
1942/11/01 33 *** lafever, lonnie oscar [brother] - died us navy ship sank off the coast of north africa by german u boat. aboard ship - the george thatcher north africa american cemetery & memoria
1942/11/24 34 *** sweet, delores (miller) [niece] - born to sweet, richard and lafever, lena dora (sweet)
1943/--/-- 34 - american aircraft join the raf in round the clock bombing of germany.
1943/--/-- 34 - american author carson mccullers publishes the ballad of the sad cafe.
1943/--/-- 34 - american writer ayn rand publishes the fountainhead.
1943/--/-- 34 - churchill and roosevelt meet at casablanca to plan their war strategy.
1943/--/-- 34 - churchill, roosevelt and stalin meet at the tehran conference.
1943/--/-- 34 - french existentialist writer jean paul sartre publishes being and nothingness.
1943/--/-- 34 - french writer and feminist simone de beauvoir publishes she came to stay.
1943/--/-- 34 - german paratroopers rescue mussolini.
1943/--/-- 34 - marine explorer jacques-yves cousteau invents the aqualung (scuba).
1943/--/-- 34 - marshal badoglio signs an armistice with the allies; italy declares war on germany.
1943/--/-- 34 - mussolini is deposed; marshal badoglio assumes power in italy.
1943/--/-- 34 - richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein's musical oklahoma! is produced.
1943/--/-- 34 - robert oppenheimer establishes the los alamos laboratory to build the atomic bomb.
1943/--/-- 34 - singer paul robeson stars in the title role of the broadway production of othello.
1943/--/-- 34 - the allied armies invade sicily.
1943/--/-- 34 - the allies invade the southern tip of italy.
1943/--/-- 34 - the british and american armies link up in africa; 250,000 axis prisoners are taken.
1943/--/-- 34 - the german sixth army surrenders at stalingrad; 100,000 are taken prisoner.
1943/--/-- 34 - the germans suppress a revolt by polish jews; the warsaw ghetto is destroyed.
1943/--/-- 34 - the russian offensive reaches the dnepr river; kiev and smolensk are recaptured.
1943/--/-- 34 - the russians defeat the germans at kursk in the largest tank battle in history.
1943/05/06 34 *** lafever, beecher jr. [nephew] - born to lafever, beecher franklin and huntington, jerry avanelle (lafever)
1943/10/-- 34 - world series nl st. louis (1) al new york (4)
1943/12/13 35 *** dilldine, linda (greenlee) [niece] - born to dilldine, amon and lafever, ruba ada (dilldine)
1944/--/-- 35 - a british airborne landing at arnhem in the netherlands is repulsed by the germans.
1944/--/-- 35 - aaron copland composes the ballet appalachian spring.
1944/--/-- 35 - allied d-day invasion forces land at normandy in northern france.
1944/--/-- 35 - allied forces break out from the normandy enclave and liberate paris.
1944/--/-- 35 - allied forces in italy land behind the german gustav line at anzio.
1944/--/-- 35 - american aircraft from the marianas begin the strategic bombing of japan.
1944/--/-- 35 - american forces under general mark clark occupy rome.
1944/--/-- 35 - an allied invasion force lands in southern france.
1944/--/-- 35 - british forces begin the reconquest of burma from the japanese.
1944/--/-- 35 - british forces occupy athens and intervene in a communist inspired civil war.
1944/--/-- 35 - child film actors mickey rooney and elizabeth taylor star in national velvet.
1944/--/-- 35 - communist resistance fighters under josip broz-tito liberate yugoslavia.
1944/--/-- 35 - english writer somerset maugham publishes the razor's edge.
1944/--/-- 35 - evangelist aimee semple mcpherson dies from an accidental drug overdose.
1944/--/-- 35 - french novelist colette writes gigi.
1944/--/-- 35 - german officers attempt to assassinate hitler.
1944/--/-- 35 - normandy landings
1944/--/-- 35 - oswald avery determines that dna is the hereditary material of the cell.
1944/--/-- 35 - polish resistance fighters are defeated by the germans in the warsaw uprising.
1944/--/-- 35 - romania and bulgaria sign an armistice with the allies and declare war on germany.
1944/--/-- 35 - roosevelt is reelected for an unprecedented fourth term; truman becomes vice-president.
1944/--/-- 35 - soviet forces cross the romanian border and reconquer the crimea.
1944/--/-- 35 - soviet forces reach the suburbs of warsaw in poland.
1944/--/-- 35 - tennessee williams' play the glass menagerie is produced.
1944/--/-- 35 - the g.i. bill of rights is established to provide assistance to war veterans.
1944/--/-- 35 - the german army launches the battle of the bulge, its last counteroffensive.
1944/--/-- 35 - the soviet's relieve the city of leningrad after a german siege lasting 890 days.
1944/--/-- 35 - the u.s. first army occupies aachen -- the first german city to fall to the allies.
1944/--/-- 35 - the world bank is established to assist european postwar recovery.
1944/--/-- 35 - u.s. marines invade guam and saipan in the marianas.
1944/--/-- 35 - u.s. forces under admiral nimitz defeat a japanese fleet in the battle of the philippine sea.
1944/--/-- 35 - v-1 (and later the v-2) weapons of vengeance are launched against london.
1944/04/08 35 *** goff, glenn [2nd cousin] - born to goff, charlie clay and lafever, ella odell (goff)
1944/04/08 35 *** goff, glenn [2nd cousin] - died
1944/09/04 35 *** lafever, mitchell taylor [nephew] - born to lafever, beecher franklin and huntington, jerry avanelle (lafever)
1944/09/19 35 *** allison, willie clayburn & lafever, alice lorene (allison) [sister] - married cookeville, tn
1944/10/-- 35 - world series nl st. louis (4) al st. louis (2)
1945/--/-- 36 - advancing allied armies discover nazi extermination camps.
1945/--/-- 36 - allied forces cross the rhine and begin the final assault on germany.
1945/--/-- 36 - british actor laurence olivier wins critical acclaim for his portrayal of richard iii.
1945/--/-- 36 - british author george orwell publishes the satirical fable animal farm.
1945/--/-- 36 - charlie "bird" parker and dizzy gillespie make the first bebop recordings.
1945/--/-- 36 - churchill is defeated in the british elections by labour leader clement attlee.
1945/--/-- 36 - churchill, roosevelt and stalin meet at the yalta conference.
1945/--/-- 36 - churchill, truman and stalin hold the last wartime conference at potsdam.
1945/--/-- 36 - egypt, saudi arabia, syria, lebanon, iraq, jordan and yemen form the arab league.
1945/--/-- 36 - french dramatist jean giraudoux writes the play the madwoman of chaillot.
1945/--/-- 36 - general macarthur heads the u.s. occupation forces in japan.
1945/--/-- 36 - german jet aircraft are unable to prevent mass allied air attacks.
1945/--/-- 36 - german playwright bertholt brecht writes the caucasian chalk circle.
1945/--/-- 36 - german rocket engineer wernher von braun continues his research in the u.s.
1945/--/-- 36 - germany and austria are divided between the allies into 4 zones of occupation.
1945/--/-- 36 - harry s. truman (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1945/--/-- 36 - hitler commits suicide in his berlin bunker; germany surrenders to the allies.
1945/--/-- 36 - ho chi minh proclaims the independence of the democratic republic of vietnam.
1945/--/-- 36 - indonesian nationalists led by sukarno proclaim the nation independent.
1945/--/-- 36 - japan signs an armistice with the allies, ending world war ii.
1945/--/-- 36 - korea is divided between u.s. and soviet occupation forces along the 38th parallel.
1945/--/-- 36 - marshal zhukov's soviet troops launch the final attack on berlin.
1945/--/-- 36 - mussolini is killed by italian partisans.
1945/--/-- 36 - nationalists and communist forces resume their civil war in china.
1945/--/-- 36 - roberto rosselini's neorealist "open city"
1945/--/-- 36 - romulo betancourt becomes president of venezuela for the first time.
1945/--/-- 36 - roosevelt dies; harry s. truman is inaugurated as the 33rd u.s. president.
1945/--/-- 36 - singer frank sinatra stars in the film musical anchors aweigh.
1945/--/-- 36 - suicide attacks by japanese kamikaze pilots are unable to stem the u.s. advances.
1945/--/-- 36 - the soviet union declares war on japan.
1945/--/-- 36 - the u.s. drops atomic bombs on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki.
1945/--/-- 36 - the united nations is formed; trygve halvdan lie becomes secretary-general (1946).
1945/--/-- 36 - the trial of nazi war criminals begins at nuremberg in germany.
1945/--/-- 36 - tito becomes head of the socialist federal republic of yugoslavia.
1945/--/-- 36 - u.s. a-bombs japan
1945/--/-- 36 - u.s. marines invade the japanese islands of iwo jima and okinawa.
1945/--/-- 36 - u.s. forces under macarthur liberate the philippines.
1945/--/-- 36 - united nations formed
1945/--/-- 36 - world war ii ends
1945/03/05 36 *** lafever, luke gilliam [father] - luke gilliam and america alice lafever moved to boiling springs.
1945/10/-- 36 - world series nl chicago (3) al detroit (4)
1946/--/-- 37 - american author robert penn warren publishes all the king's men.
1946/--/-- 37 - communists abolish the monarchy in bulgaria; georgi dimitrov becomes premier.
1946/--/-- 37 - dr. spock publishes the commonsense book of baby and child care.
1946/--/-- 37 - elas communist forces begin a civil war in greece.
1946/--/-- 37 - eniac, the first successful electronic digital computer, becomes operational.
1946/--/-- 37 - elections in italy abolish the monarchy in favor of a republic.
1946/--/-- 37 - general de gaulle resigns as president of france; the fourth republic is formed.
1946/--/-- 37 - greek author nikos kazantzakis publishes zorba the greek.
1946/--/-- 37 - juan peron is elected president of argentina.
1946/--/-- 37 - macarthur promotes japanese democracy with the emperor as constitutional monarch.
1946/--/-- 37 - saint frances xavier cabrini becomes the first u.s. citizen to be canonized.
1946/--/-- 37 - swiss-french architect le corbusier designs unite d'habitation in marseilles.
1946/--/-- 37 - terence rattigan's play the winslow boy is produced.
1946/--/-- 37 - the philippines are granted independence with manuel roxas y acuna as president.
1946/--/-- 37 - the viet minh begin a guerrilla war against the french in indochina (vietnam).
1946/--/-- 37 - winston churchill describes the iron curtain created in europe by the soviets.
1946/09/09 37 *** lafever, elvira [aunt] - died
1946/10/-- 37 - world series nl st. louis (4) al boston (3)
1946/10/01 37 *** lafever, robert lonnie [nephew] - born to lafever, beecher franklin and huntington, jerry avanelle (lafever)
1947/--/-- 38 - american pilot kenneth arnold makes the first alleged sighting of flying saucers.
1947/--/-- 38 - artist jackson pollock produces full fathom five using drip paint techniques.
1947/--/-- 38 - artist mark rothko begins experimenting with color-field painting.
1947/--/-- 38 - baseball player jackie robinson becomes the first black to play in the major leagues.
1947/--/-- 38 - british & french empires fracture into new 3rd world nations
1947/--/-- 38 - british india becomes pakistan & india
1947/--/-- 38 - british atomic bomb scientist klaus fuchs is arrested for giving information to the ussr.
1947/--/-- 38 - chuck yeager breaks the sound barrier for the first time in an x-1 rocket plane.
1947/--/-- 38 - conductor sir thomas beecham forms the royal philharmonic orchestra in london.
1947/--/-- 38 - dennis gabor invents holography, a means of producing a three-dimensional image.
1947/--/-- 38 - edwin land demonstrates the single-step polaroid land camera.
1947/--/-- 38 - english composer benjamin britten writes the opera peter grimes.
1947/--/-- 38 - french fashion designer christian dior opens his own couture house.
1947/--/-- 38 - french literary figure andre gide wins the nobel prize for literature.
1947/--/-- 38 - gheorghiu-dej heads the romanian communist party; king michael abdicates.
1947/--/-- 38 - india becomes independent and is divided into the nations of india and pakistan.
1947/--/-- 38 - jawaharlal nehru becomes the first prime minister of india.
1947/--/-- 38 - marshall plan

1947/--/-- 38 - norwegian explorer thor heyerdahl sails on the balsa raft kon tiki from peru to polynesia.
1947/--/-- 38 - tennessee williams' play a streetcar named desire is produced.
1947/--/-- 38 - the dead sea scrolls, a collection of ancient hebrew documents, are discovered.
1947/--/-- 38 - the u.s. marshall plan for economic recovery in europe is established.
1947/--/-- 38 - the united nations elect to partition palestine into arab and jewish states.
1947/--/-- 38 - the first india-pakistan war begins when pakistani tribesmen invade kashmir.
1947/--/-- 38 - the story of a jewish victim of the nazis, the diary of anne frank, is published.
1947/--/-- 38 - trust territory of the pacific islands, captured from japan, administered by u.s.
1947/--/-- 38 - u.s. contains spread of communism
1947/08/29 38 *** bristow, roy duane [nephew] - born to bristow, jesse willard and lafever, nora linnie (bristow) reed memorial hospital, richmond, indiana
1947/10/-- 38 - world series nl brooklyn (3) al new york (4)
1948/--/-- 39 - alec guinness stars as fagin in the film of dicken's oliver twist.
1948/--/-- 39 - alfred kinsey publishes his report on sexual behavior in the human male.
1948/--/-- 39 - american opera singer beverly sills debuts in bizet's carmen.
1948/--/-- 39 - american writer norman mailer publishes the war novel the naked and the dead.
1948/--/-- 39 - arab armies invade israel in the first arab-israeli war.
1948/--/-- 39 - bell labs invent transistor
1948/--/-- 39 - britain grants independence to burma.
1948/--/-- 39 - communism quashed in us
1948/--/-- 39 - communist leader kim il sung establishes the people's republic of korea (n. korea).
1948/--/-- 39 - dutch track star fanny blankers-koen wins four gold medals in the olympic games.
1948/--/-- 39 - george balanchine's ballet society is renamed the new york city ballet.
1948/--/-- 39 - indian leader mahatma gandhi is assassinated by a hindu fanatic.
1948/--/-- 39 - israel created
1948/--/-- 39 - italian filmmaker vittorio de sica directs the bicycle thieves.
1948/--/-- 39 - nato formed; cold war begins
1948/--/-- 39 - palestinian jews proclaim the independent state of israel.
1948/--/-- 39 - stalin expels yugoslavia from the communist bloc.
1948/--/-- 39 - the communist party assumes power in hungary under matyas rakosi.
1948/--/-- 39 - the malayan communist party begins an insurrection against british rule.
1948/--/-- 39 - the republic of korea (s. korea) is inaugurated, syngman rhee becomes president.
1948/--/-- 39 - the soviets blockade west berlin; britain and the u.s. begin the berlin airlift.
1948/--/-- 39 - the u.s. air force begins the project blue book study of the ufo phenomenon.
1948/--/-- 39 - the apartheid policy of racial segregation is made official in south africa.
1948/--/-- 39 - the transistor is invented at bell laboratories in the u.s.
1948/05/20 39 *** goff, america alice (lafever) [mother] - leg broken
1948/10/-- 39 - world series nl boston (2) al cleveland (4)
1949/--/-- 40 - abstract artist robert motherwell begins his series elegy to the spanish republic.
1949/--/-- 40 - abstract-expressionism breaks out in nyc
1949/--/-- 40 - architect philip johnson designs the glass house in new caanan, conn.
1949/--/-- 40 - arthur miller's play death of a salesman is produced.
1949/--/-- 40 - british abstract sculptor henry moore completes the bronze family group.
1949/--/-- 40 - british author george orwell publishes the futuristic novel nineteen eighty-four.
1949/--/-- 40 - civil war ends in greece with the defeat of the communist forces.
1949/--/-- 40 - communists under mao defeat the nationalists and form the people's republic of china.
1949/--/-- 40 - konrad adenauer becomes the first chancellor of west germany.
1949/--/-- 40 - kurchatov develops first soviet a-bomb
1949/--/-- 40 - miles davis makes the first "cool" jazz records.
1949/--/-- 40 - nationalist chinese forces under chiang kai-shek flee to the island of taiwan.
1949/--/-- 40 - rogers and hammerstein's broadway musical south pacific is produced.
1949/--/-- 40 - the hashimite kingdom of transjordan is renamed as jordan.
1949/--/-- 40 - the netherlands grants independence to indonesia (formerly the dutch east indies).
1949/--/-- 40 - the north atlantic treaty organization is formed to deter soviet aggression.
1949/--/-- 40 - the republic of germany (west germany) is established by the western powers.
1949/--/-- 40 - the soviet union detonates its first atomic bomb.
1949/--/-- 40 - the soviets establish the german democratic republic (east germany).
1949/--/-- 40 - the first india-pakistan war ends with the partition of kashmir.
1949/06/06 40 *** lafever, gary leroy [nephew] - born to lafever, beecher franklin and huntington, jerry avanelle (lafever)
1949/06/06 40 *** lafever, terri sue (gaston) [niece] - born to lafever, beecher franklin and huntington, jerry avanelle (lafever)
1949/10/-- 40 - world series nl brooklyn (1) al new york (4)
1949/11/14 41 *** sweet, larry [nephew] - born to sweet, richard and lafever, lena dora (sweet)
1950/--/-- 41 - adnan menderes replaces ismet inonu as prime minister of turkey.
1950/--/-- 41 - bette davis stars in the film all about eve.
1950/--/-- 41 - cartoonist charles schulz creates the peanuts comic strip.
1950/--/-- 41 - chinese forces invade tibet, which is officially annexed in 1951.
1950/--/-- 41 - communist north korean forces invade south korea.
1950/--/-- 41 - george burns and gracie allen star in the burns and allen show television series.
1950/--/-- 41 - isaac asimov publishes the science-fiction classic i robot.
1950/--/-- 41 - japanese film director akira kurosawa achieves recognition with rashomon.
1950/--/-- 41 - korean "engagement"
1950/--/-- 41 - president truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb.
1950/--/-- 41 - senator joseph mccarthy begins his inquiry into un-american activities.
1950/--/-- 41 - the un sanctions military aid for south korea; macarthur is appointed commander.
1950/--/-- 41 - u.s. official alger hiss is convicted of perjury for denying that he knew a soviet agent.
1950/--/-- 41 - un forces cross into north korea but are repulsed by the chinese army.
1950/--/-- 41 - un forces land at inchon and drive the north koreans out of south korea.
1950/01/-- 41 *** lafever, nora linnie (bristow) [sister] - moved into new home near albany, kentucky and had seizures.
1950/01/15 41 *** bristow, karen sue (steele) [niece] - born to bristow, jesse willard and lafever, nora linnie (bristow)
1950/07/01 41 *** lafever, treva lucille (goodwin) [sister] & goodwin, robert -buddy- - married
1950/10/-- 41 - world series nl philadelphia (0) al new york (4)
1950/12/11 42 *** lafever, andrew j. [uncle] - died
1951/--/-- 42 - a frontline is stabilized at the 38th parallel in korea; peace negotiations begin at kaesong.
1951/--/-- 42 - american novelist kurt vonnegut publishes player piano.
1951/--/-- 42 - american poet marianne moore publishes her collected poems.
1951/--/-- 42 - american writer j.d. salinger publishes the catcher in the rye.
1951/--/-- 42 - american writer james jones publishes the war novel from here to eternity.
1951/--/-- 42 - artist stuart davis uses words to function as abstract shapes in his painting visa.
1951/--/-- 42 - australia, new zealand, and the u.s. sign the mutual defense anzus treaty.
1951/--/-- 42 - auto racer juan fangio wins the world driving championship for the first time.
1951/--/-- 42 - boxer sugar ray robinson defeats jake la motta for the middleweight title.
1951/--/-- 42 - british conservatives win a general election with winston churchill as leader.
1951/--/-- 42 - british spies burgess and maclean escape to the soviet union.
1951/--/-- 42 - comedian lucille ball stars in the television series i love lucy.
1951/--/-- 42 - igor stravinsky's opera the rake's progress is premiered.
1951/--/-- 42 - julius and ethel rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage against the u.s.
1951/--/-- 42 - king abdullah of jordan is assassinated by a palestinian nationalist.
1951/--/-- 42 - leopold iii of belgium is forced to abdicate because of his wartime conduct.
1951/--/-- 42 - president truman dismisses macarthur as commander in korea.
1951/--/-- 42 - prime minister muhammad mosaddeq nationalizes iran's oil resources.
1951/--/-- 42 - rodgers and hammerstein's broadway musical the king and i is produced.
1951/--/-- 42 - teller tests h-bomb
1951/--/-- 42 - ten million television receivers have been installed in u.s. homes.
1951/--/-- 42 - the 22nd amendment restricts u.s. presidents to a maximum of two terms.
1951/--/-- 42 - the un general assembly brands communist china an aggressor in the korean war.
1951/--/-- 42 - the first successful videotape for recording television images is demonstrated.
1951/--/-- 42 - univac i, the first commercial computer, is accepted by the u.s. bureau of the census.
1951/02/26 42 *** davis, wilma kathleen (love) & love, jimmie goff [son] - married
1951/05/05 42 *** cass, dennis & lafever, betty cleo (cass, mcdonald) [sister] - married
1951/10/-- 42 - world series nl new york (2) al new york (4)
1952/--/-- 43 - a bloodless coup returns fulgencio batista to power in cuba.
1952/--/-- 43 - agatha christie's record-breaking play the mouse trap opens in london.
1952/--/-- 43 - american sculptor isamu noguchi designs two bridges for the peace park at hiroshima.
1952/--/-- 43 - american writer e.b. white publishes the children's book charlotte's web.
1952/--/-- 43 - british architect michael ventris deciphers the ancient greek linear b script.
1952/--/-- 43 - chuck yaeger sets a new air speed record of 1,650 mph in the x-1a research plane.
1952/--/-- 43 - communist pow riots in south korea delay peace negotiations.
1952/--/-- 43 - czech runner emil zatopek wins 3 gold medals in the helsinki olympic games.
1952/--/-- 43 - dancer gene kelly stars in the film singin' in the rain.
1952/--/-- 43 - eva peron, popularly known as evita, dies in argentina.
1952/--/-- 43 - gary cooper and grace kelly star in the western film high noon.
1952/--/-- 43 - gordon bunshaft designs the lever house, an early international style building.
1952/--/-- 43 - hostilities continue in korea with increased un air strikes against the north.
1952/--/-- 43 - king farouk of egypt is overthrown in a revolution led by gen. muhammad naguib.
1952/--/-- 43 - kwame nkrumah is elected prime minister of the gold coast (ghana).
1952/--/-- 43 - medical missionary albert schweitzer is awarded the nobel peace prize.
1952/--/-- 43 - opera singer maria callas debuts at london's covent garden.
1952/--/-- 43 - queen elizabeth ii ascends to the british throne on the death of her father george vi.
1952/--/-- 43 - samuel beckett's play waiting for godot is produced in paris.
1952/--/-- 43 - the british de havilland comet becomes the first jet airliner to enter service.
1952/--/-- 43 - the commonwealth of puerto rico is formed with luis munoz marin as governor.
1952/--/-- 43 - the mau mau uprising begins in kenya; jomo kenyatta is imprisoned.
1952/--/-- 43 - the u.s. tests the first hydrogen bomb in the pacific.
1952/--/-- 43 - the first automatic pinsetter is installed in a bowling alley in brooklyn, n.y.
1952/--/-- 43 - turkey joins the north atlantic treaty organization (nato).
1952/--/-- 43 - vice-presidential candidate richard nixon makes his checkers speech.
1952/02/-- 43 - elizabeth ii succeeds as queen of great britain and ireland.
1952/05/31 43 *** cass, gary [nephew] - born to lafever, betty cleo (cass, mcdonald)
1952/05/31 43 *** cass, larry [nephew] - born to lafever, betty cleo (cass, mcdonald)
1952/10/-- 43 - world series nl brooklyn (3) al new york (4)
1953/--/-- 44 - a redstone rocket (based on the german v-2) is tested at cape canaveral.
1953/--/-- 44 - american physicist charles h. townes invents the maser.
1953/--/-- 44 - american tennis player maureen connolly (little mo) wins the grand slam.
1953/--/-- 44 - american writer saul bellow publishes the adventures of augie march.
1953/--/-- 44 - an armistice ends the korean war; the country remains divided into north and south.
1953/--/-- 44 - arthur miller writes the crucible, a play about the salem witch trials.
1953/--/-- 44 - black writer james baldwin publishes his first novel go tell it on the mountain.
1953/--/-- 44 - communist statesman imre nagy becomes premier of hungary.
1953/--/-- 44 - dag hammarskjold succeeds trygve lie as secretary-general of the un.
1953/--/-- 44 - dwight d. eisenhower (republican) becomes president of the united states
1953/--/-- 44 - edmund hillary and tenzing norgay are the first to climb mount everest.
1953/--/-- 44 - eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th u.s. president; nixon becomes vice-president.
1953/--/-- 44 - fidel castro leads an attack on an army barracks in cuba; he is captured and imprisoned.
1953/--/-- 44 - golfer ben hogan wins the u.s. open, masters, and british open tournaments.
1953/--/-- 44 - hugh hefner publishes the first issue of playboy magazine.
1953/--/-- 44 - hussein i succeeds his father as king of jordan.
1953/--/-- 44 - israeli prime minister ben-gurion retires; he is succeeded by moshe sharett.
1953/--/-- 44 - jacques piccard's bathyscaphe the trieste descends to a depth of 10,330 ft.
1953/--/-- 44 - james watson and francis crick propose the double helix structure of dna.
1953/--/-- 44 - john foster dulles is selected as the u.s. secretary of state.
1953/--/-- 44 - laos, formerly a part of french indochina, is granted independence.
1953/--/-- 44 - lavrenti beria, head of the soviet security service, is arrested and executed.
1953/--/-- 44 - marilyn monroe stars in the film gentlemen prefer blondes.
1953/--/-- 44 - murray gell-mann proposes the strangeness property of some subatomic particles.
1953/--/-- 44 - physicist donald glaser invents the bubble chamber to detect subnuclear particles.
1953/--/-- 44 - soviet dictator joseph stalin dies; georgy m. malenkov becomes the new premier.
1953/--/-- 44 - the first heart-lung machine is developed by dr. john gibbon.
1953/--/-- 44 - the fossil remains of piltdown man are proved a hoax 41 years after their discovery.
1953/--/-- 44 - watson & crick dna=double helix
1953/03/28 44 *** lafever, jeffery davis [nephew] - born to lafever, beecher franklin and huntington, jerry avanelle (lafever)
1953/03/28 44 *** lafever, judy ann (wise) [niece] - born to lafever, beecher franklin and huntington, jerry avanelle (lafever)
1953/06/-- 44 - elizabeth ii crowned queen of great britain and northern ireland at westminster
1953/07/17 44 *** goodwin, debra ann (davis) [niece] - born to goodwin, robert -buddy- and lafever, treva lucille (goodwin)
1953/08/-- 44 *** bristow, roy duane [nephew] - began attending elementary school at cowan, a one room school with 8 grades and about 25 students in clinton county kentucky.
1953/10/-- 44 - world series nl brooklyn (2) al new york (4)
1953/12/30 45 *** love, rhonda jane (jackson) [granddaughter] - born to love, jimmie goff and davis, wilma kathleen (love)
1954/--/-- 45 - a supreme court decision prohibits racial segregation in u.s. public schools.
1954/--/-- 45 - american novelist evan hunter publishes the blackboard jungle.
1954/--/-- 45 - british artist francis bacon begins his portrait of pope innocent x series.
1954/--/-- 45 - british novelist william golding publishes lord of the flies.
1954/--/-- 45 - dylan thomas' radio play under milk wood is performed posthumously.
1954/--/-- 45 - english runner roger bannister is first to run the mile in under 4 minutes.
1954/--/-- 45 - french forces are defeated at the battle of dien bien phu in north vietnam.
1954/--/-- 45 - gamal abdel nasser ousts gen. muhammad naguib as president of egypt.
1954/--/-- 45 - ian fleming publishes the first james bond thriller casino royale.
1954/--/-- 45 - italian film-maker federico fellini directs la strada.
1954/--/-- 45 - kingsley amis, one of england's angry young men, publishes lucky jim.
1954/--/-- 45 - marlon brando stars in elia kazan's film on the waterfront.
1954/--/-- 45 - national liberation front (fln) raids on french property spark the algerian war.
1954/--/-- 45 - senator mccarthy is discredited for failing to prove claims of communist penetration.
1954/--/-- 45 - television thrives; radio switches to music
1954/--/-- 45 - the geneva conference establishes the partition of vietnam into north and south.
1954/--/-- 45 - the u.s. and canada begin construction of the st. lawrence seaway.
1954/--/-- 45 - the u.s. nuclear submarine the nautilus is launched.
1954/--/-- 45 - u.s. "nautilus" first nuclear submarine
1954/04/20 45 *** allison, donald wayne [nephew] - born to allison, willie clayburn and lafever, alice lorene (allison)
1954/07/01 45 *** cass, barry [nephew] - born to lafever, betty cleo (cass, mcdonald)
1954/10/-- 45 - world series nl new york (4) al cleveland (0)
1955/--/-- 46 - a military coup in argentina deposes president juan peron.
1955/--/-- 46 - afl and cio merge
1955/--/-- 46 - american artist jasper johns begins his paintings of american flags and targets.
1955/--/-- 46 - american artist larry rivers paints double portrait of birdie.
1955/--/-- 46 - american rock 'n' roll musician bill haley records rock around the clock.
1955/--/-- 46 - anthony eden succeeds winston churchill as prime minister of great britain.
1955/--/-- 46 - austria achieves independence; the four-power occupation is terminated.
1955/--/-- 46 - blacks boycott buses in montgomery
1955/--/-- 46 - british writer graham greene publishes the quiet american.
1955/--/-- 46 - british writer and scholar j.r.r. tolkien completes the lord of the rings.
1955/--/-- 46 - david ben-gurion returns as prime minister of israel.
1955/--/-- 46 - film star james dean is killed in a car crash.
1955/--/-- 46 - jonas salk's vaccine against polio comes into widespread use.
1955/--/-- 46 - marian anderson becomes the first black to perform at the metropolitan opera house.
1955/--/-- 46 - martin luther king, jr. leads a boycott against racial segregation on buses.
1955/--/-- 46 - russian writer vladimir nabokov publishes the novel lolita.
1955/--/-- 46 - satyajit ray directs pather panchali, the first film in a trilogy on bengali family life.
1955/--/-- 46 - supreme court orders school desegregation
1955/--/-- 46 - the federal republic of germany joins nato.
1955/--/-- 46 - the warsaw pact establishes a military alliance of european communist nations.
1955/--/-- 46 - theologian pierre teilhard de chardin publishes the phenomenon of man.
1955/06/23 46 *** love, james michael "mike" [grandson] - born to love, jimmie goff and davis, wilma kathleen (love)
1955/10/-- 46 - world series nl brooklyn (4) al new york (3)
1956/--/-- 47 - american beat poet allen ginsberg publishes howl and other poems.
1956/--/-- 47 - american television news show the huntley-brinkley report begins.
1956/--/-- 47 - american writer grace metalious publishes peyton place.
1956/--/-- 47 - anglo-french forces invade egypt but withdraw after protests from the u.s.
1956/--/-- 47 - archbishop makarios iii is deported from cyprus by the british.
1956/--/-- 47 - brendan behan's play the quare fellow opens in london.
1956/--/-- 47 - britain, france and israel agree on a secret joint action against egypt.
1956/--/-- 47 - british artist richard hamilton produces the first pop art work.
1956/--/-- 47 - david niven stars in the film around the world in eighty days.
1956/--/-- 47 - eugene o'neill's play long day's journey into night is produced.
1956/--/-- 47 - fidel castro and che guevara land in cuba and begin a guerrilla war.
1956/--/-- 47 - film actress grace kelly marries prince rainier iii of monaco.
1956/--/-- 47 - heavyweight boxing champion rocky marciano retires without being defeated.
1956/--/-- 47 - israeli forces under moshe dayan seize the gaza strip and the sinai peninsula.
1956/--/-- 47 - john osborne's first play look back in anger is produced in london.
1956/--/-- 47 - lerner and loewe's musical my fair lady opens in new york.
1956/--/-- 47 - president anastasio somoza garcia is assassinated in nicaragua.
1956/--/-- 47 - president nasser nationalizes the suez canal before the british lease expires.
1956/--/-- 47 - president ngo dinh diem refuses to hold elections in south vietnam.
1956/--/-- 47 - rock 'n roll singer elvis presley records his first hit heartbreak hotel.
1956/--/-- 47 - soviet first secretary nikita khrushchev denounces the crimes of the stalin era.
1956/--/-- 47 - sudan gains independence from anglo-egyptian rule.
1956/--/-- 47 - the hungarian uprising is suppressed by soviet troops.
1956/--/-- 47 - the italian ocean liner andrea doria sinks off the u.s. coast after a collision in fog.
1956/--/-- 47 - tunisia and morocco are granted independence by france.
1956/01/02 47 *** bozarth, mary elizabeth "betty" (goff) [grandmother] - died putnam county, tennessee goff cem. dekalb county tn
1956/01/30 47 *** lafever, winfield [uncle] - died
1956/03/04 47 *** goodwin, david carroll [nephew] - born to goodwin, robert -buddy- and lafever, treva lucille (goodwin)
1956/10/-- 47 - world series nl brooklyn (3) al new york (4)
1957/--/-- 48 - beat generation writer jack kerouac publishes on the road.
1957/--/-- 48 - black tennis player althea gibson wins the u.s. open and wimbledon championships.
1957/--/-- 48 - british philosopher a.j. ayer publishes the problem of knowledge.
1957/--/-- 48 - british prime minister anthony eden resigns; is succeeded by harold macmillan.
1957/--/-- 48 - dr. seuss publishes the children's book the cat in the hat.
1957/--/-- 48 - francois duvalier (known as papa doc) is elected president of haiti.
1957/--/-- 48 - ghana gains independence; kwame nkrumah becomes the first prime minister.
1957/--/-- 48 - jack kerouac "on the road"
1957/--/-- 48 - jerome robbins is director-choreographer of the musical west side story.
1957/--/-- 48 - john g. diefenbaker succeeds louis st. laurent as prime minister of canada.
1957/--/-- 48 - lawrence durrell publishes justine, the first of the alexandria quartet novels.
1957/--/-- 48 - scientists from 67 nations work together during the international geophysical year.
1957/--/-- 48 - soviet leaders malenkov and molotov fail in an attempt to oust khrushchev from power.
1957/--/-- 48 - soviets launch "sputnik", first artificial satellite
1957/--/-- 48 - swedish filmmaker ingmar bergman directs the seventh seal.
1957/--/-- 48 - the israeli army withdraws from egypt; the gaza strip is policed by un forces.
1957/--/-- 48 - the ussr launches sputnik i, the first artificial satellite.
1957/--/-- 48 - the viet cong begin acts of rebellion in south vietnam.
1957/--/-- 48 - tunku abdul rahman becomes the first prime minister of independent malaya (malaysia).
1957/05/23 48 *** allison, denise gale (moore) [niece] - born to allison, willie clayburn and lafever, alice lorene (allison)
1957/08/07 48 *** love, kathy sue (anderson) [granddaughter] - born to love, jimmie goff and davis, wilma kathleen (love)
1957/10/-- 48 - world series nl milwaukee (4) al new york (3)
1958/--/-- 49 - american economist j.k. galbraith publishes the affluent society.
1958/--/-- 49 - american golfer arnold palmer wins the masters tournament for the first time.
1958/--/-- 49 - american playwright edward albee writes the zoo story.
1958/--/-- 49 - american writer truman capote publishes the novella breakfast at tiffany's.
1958/--/-- 49 - bertrand russell founds the campaign for nuclear disarmament (cnd) in britain.
1958/--/-- 49 - civil war breaks out in lebanon; it is ended when u.s. marines land at beirut.
1958/--/-- 49 - egypt and syria form the united arab republic.
1958/--/-- 49 - gen. muhammad ayub khan seizes control in pakistan.
1958/--/-- 49 - leonard bernstein becomes the conductor of the new york philharmonic orchestra.
1958/--/-- 49 - nikita khrushchev replaces nikolai bulganin as soviet premier.
1958/--/-- 49 - prime minister hendrik verwoerd extends south africa's apartheid laws.
1958/--/-- 49 - russian writer boris pasternak publishes the novel doctor zhivago.
1958/--/-- 49 - soccer player pele leads brazil to victory in the world cup.
1958/--/-- 49 - the algerian crisis prompts the recall of charles de gaulle as president of france.
1958/--/-- 49 - the european economic community (eec) is established.
1958/--/-- 49 - the french army and settlers in algiers revolt over the algerian war stalemate.
1958/--/-- 49 - the national aeronautics and space administration (nasa) is founded.
1958/--/-- 49 - the u.s. launches the explorer i and vanguard i scientific satellites.
1958/--/-- 49 - the first intercontinental ballistic missile (icbm) is launched in the u.s.
1958/--/-- 49 - the nuclear submarine nautilus reaches the north pole under the polar ice cap.
1958/--/-- 49 - wilson greatbatch invents an artificial pacemaker to control heartbeats.
1958/10/-- 49 - world series nl milwaukee (3) al new york (4)
1959/--/-- 50 - alaska is inaugurated as the 49th state of the union.
1959/--/-- 50 - american writer leon uris publishes exodus, a novel on the founding of israel.
1959/--/-- 50 - american writer william burroughs publishes the naked lunch.
1959/--/-- 50 - anthropologists richard and mary leakey discover an australopithecus skull in africa.
1959/--/-- 50 - artist robert rauschenberg creates the three-dimensional collage monogram.
1959/--/-- 50 - cyprus gains independence from britain; archbishop makarios becomes president.
1959/--/-- 50 - fidel castro ousts cuban leader fulgencio batista in a communist revolution.
1959/--/-- 50 - film actor charlton heston wins the academy award for his role in ben-hur.
1959/--/-- 50 - french new wave filmmaker jean luc godard directs breathless.
1959/--/-- 50 - french filmmaker alain resnais directs hiroshima mon amour.
1959/--/-- 50 - french filmmaker francois truffaut directs the 400 blows.
1959/--/-- 50 - german writer gunter grass publishes his first novel the tin drum.
1959/--/-- 50 - hawaii is inaugurated as the 50th state of the union.
1959/--/-- 50 - jack lemon, tony curtis and marilyn monroe star in the film some like it hot.
1959/--/-- 50 - jean-luc godard's new wave "breathless"
1959/--/-- 50 - lee kuan yew becomes prime minister of singapore.
1959/--/-- 50 - lorraine hansberry's a raisin in the sun is the first broadway play by a black woman.
1959/--/-- 50 - nasa selects the first seven u.s. astronauts.
1959/--/-- 50 - rock 'n roll star buddy holly is killed in a plane crash.
1959/--/-- 50 - rod serling hosts the twilight zone television series.
1959/--/-- 50 - rogers and hammerstein's broadway musical the sound of music is produced.
1959/--/-- 50 - sir christopher cockerell tests the first air-cushion vehicle.
1959/--/-- 50 - the boeing 707 jet airliner enters service.
1959/--/-- 50 - the dalai lama flees to india after china crushes an uprising in tibet.
1959/--/-- 50 - the guggenheim museum, designed by frank lloyd wright, opens in new york city.
1959/--/-- 50 - the soviet union sends a series of luna space probes to the moon.
1959/--/-- 50 - the first flight is made by the x-15 rocket-powered research aircraft.
1959/08/24 50 *** lafever, william thomas [great uncle] - died dekalb county tennessee goff cem. dekalb county tn
1959/08/29 50 *** love, jimmy alan [grandson] - born to love, jimmie goff and davis, wilma kathleen (love)
1959/10/-- 50 - world series nl los angeles (4) al chicago (2)
1960/--/-- 51 - 69 africans are killed in the sharpeville massacre in south africa.
1960/--/-- 51 - a military coup takes place in turkey; prime minister adnan menderes is executed (1961).
1960/--/-- 51 - a student uprising forces the resignation of syngman rhee, president of south korea.
1960/--/-- 51 - american author john updike publishes the novel rabbit run.
1960/--/-- 51 - american physicist theodore h. maiman demonstrates the first successful laser.
1960/--/-- 51 - american track star wilma rudolph wins 3 gold medals at the rome olympic games.
1960/--/-- 51 - an earthquake kills 15,000 at agadir in morocco.
1960/--/-- 51 - belgium grants independence to the congo (zaire); patrice lumumba becomes premier.
1960/--/-- 51 - britain grants independence to nigeria; abubakar balewa continues as prime minister.
1960/--/-- 51 - civil rights movement
1960/--/-- 51 - congo (zaire) premier patrice lumumba is ousted by joseph mobutu and murdered.
1960/--/-- 51 - filmmaker alfred hitchcock directs the suspense thriller psycho.
1960/--/-- 51 - former nazi official adolf eichmann is abducted to israel.
1960/--/-- 51 - france grants independence to the congo, chad, central african republic, and gabon.
1960/--/-- 51 - harold pinter's play the caretaker is produced.
1960/--/-- 51 - italian filmmaker michelangelo antonioni directs la notte (the night).
1960/--/-- 51 - jacques piccard and don walsh descend to 35,800 ft in the bathyscaphe trieste.
1960/--/-- 51 - maiman makes first laser
1960/--/-- 51 - nasa launches the first tiros weather satellite.
1960/--/-- 51 - religious broadcaster pat robertson founds the christian broadcasting network.
1960/--/-- 51 - sirimavo bandaranaike becomes the world's first woman prime minister in ceylon (sri lanka).
1960/--/-- 51 - south african civil rights leader albert luthuli wins the nobel peace prize.
1960/--/-- 51 - the congo crisis begins with the secession of katanga province under moise tshombe.
1960/--/-- 51 - the echo 1 experimental communications satellite is launched.
1960/--/-- 51 - the motown record company is founded in detroit by berry gordy.
1960/--/-- 51 - the south african government bans the african national congress (anc).
1960/--/-- 51 - the soviets shoot down a u-2 spy plane; u.s. pilot francis gary powers is captured.
1960/--/-- 51 - the first quasars, the most luminous known objects in the universe, are discovered.
1960/--/-- 51 - the first submerged firing is made of a polaris submarine-launched missile.
1960/--/-- 51 - the planned city of brasilia becomes the new capital of brazil.
1960/--/-- 51 - the presidential debates of john f. kennedy and richard nixon are televised.
1960/--/-- 51 - viet cong groups unite into the national liberation front of south vietnam (nlfsv).
1960/--/-- 51 - walter ulbricht becomes head of east germany.
1960/08/-- 51 *** bristow, roy duane [nephew] - went to high school at clinton county high
1960/10/-- 51 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al new york (3)
1961/--/-- 52 - agostinho neto and holden roberto lead insurrections in portuguese angola.
1961/--/-- 52 - american writer joseph heller publishes the anti-war novel catch-22.
1961/--/-- 52 - american-aided cuban exiles attempt the unsuccessful bay of pigs invasion.
1961/--/-- 52 - astronaut alan shepard makes the first u.s. suborbital space flight.
1961/--/-- 52 - britain grants independence to tanganyika (tanzania) with julius nyerere as prime minister.
1961/--/-- 52 - british novelist iris murdoch publishes a severed head.
1961/--/-- 52 - english writer muriel spark publishes the prime of miss jean brodie.
1961/--/-- 52 - french filmmaker francois truffaut directs jeanne moreau in jules and jim.
1961/--/-- 52 - india annexes the portugese territories of goa, daman, and diu.
1961/--/-- 52 - italian filmmaker vittorio de sica directs sophia loren in alberto moravia's two women.
1961/--/-- 52 - italian opera singer luciano pavarotti debuts in puccini's la boheme.
1961/--/-- 52 - john f. kennedy (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1961/--/-- 52 - kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th u.s. president; johnson becomes vice-president.
1961/--/-- 52 - kennedy launches "apollo" project; man lands on the moon
1961/--/-- 52 - peace corps
1961/--/-- 52 - president kennedy begins to increase the u.s. military presence in vietnam.
1961/--/-- 52 - president kennedy establishes the peace corps.
1961/--/-- 52 - president kennedy sets a goal for landing a man on the moon within the decade.
1961/--/-- 52 - president rafael trujillo is assassinated in the dominican republic.
1961/--/-- 52 - roger maris breaks babe ruth's home-run baseball record with a season total of 61.
1961/--/-- 52 - science fiction writer robert heinlein publishes stranger in a strange land.
1961/--/-- 52 - soviet ballet dancer rudolf nureyev defects to the west.
1961/--/-- 52 - soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin orbits the earth.
1961/--/-- 52 - swedish filmmaker ingmar bergman directs max von sydow in through a glass darkly.
1961/--/-- 52 - the berlin wall is constructed, separating east and west berlin.
1961/--/-- 52 - the kurds begin a guerrilla war against iraq to gain independence for kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 52 - the kurds begin a guerrilla war against iraq to gain independence for kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 52 - the drug thalidomide is found to cause malformations in new born babies.
1961/--/-- 52 - un secretary-general dag hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash in the congo (zaire).
1961/--/-- 52 - v.s. naipaul writes about west indian life in a house for mr. biswas.
1961/04/21 52 *** lafever, lilly meirl (williams) [niece] & williams, hugh randall - married married at ozion baptist church, putnam county, tn
1961/08/19 52 *** welch, patrick r. & lafever, marjorie (welch) [niece] - married married at st. thomas catholic church, cookeville, tn.
1961/10/-- 52 - world series nl cincinnati (1) al new york (4)
1961/12/01 53 *** love, billy joe [grandson] - born to love, jimmie goff and davis, wilma kathleen (love)
1962/--/-- 53 *** lafever, marjorie (welch) [niece] - ba university of tennessee
1962/--/-- 53 - actor laurence olivier becomes the first director of the national theatre in london.
1962/--/-- 53 - aleksandr solzhenitsyn publishes one day in the life of ivan denisovich.
1962/--/-- 53 - algeria gains independence from france; ahmed ben bella becomes prime minister.
1962/--/-- 53 - american artist jim dine paints the pop art subject black saw.
1962/--/-- 53 - american film actress marilyn monroe dies from a drug overdose.
1962/--/-- 53 - american historian barbara tuchman publishes the guns of august.
1962/--/-- 53 - american writer katherine anne porter publishes the novel ship of fools.
1962/--/-- 53 - american writer ken kesey publishes one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
1962/--/-- 53 - astronaut john glenn becomes the first american to orbit the earth.
1962/--/-- 53 - basketball player wilt chamberlain scores a record 100 points in one game.
1962/--/-- 53 - britain grants independence to trinidad and tobago with eric williams as chief minister.
1962/--/-- 53 - britain grants independence to uganda; milton obote becomes prime minister.
1962/--/-- 53 - british filmmaker david lean directs lawrence of arabia.
1962/--/-- 53 - british writer anthony burgess publishes the futuristic novel a clockwork orange.
1962/--/-- 53 - burmese diplomat u thant becomes the first asian secretary general of the un.
1962/--/-- 53 - cuban missile crisis
1962/--/-- 53 - edward albee's play who's afraid of virginia woolf is produced on broadway.
1962/--/-- 53 - fashion designer yves saint laurent opens his parisian fashion house.
1962/--/-- 53 - folk-rock singer and composer bob dylan writes blowin' in the wind.
1962/--/-- 53 - georges pompidou becomes premier of france's fifth republic.
1962/--/-- 53 - polish filmmaker roman polanski directs his first film knife in the water.
1962/--/-- 53 - pop art
1962/--/-- 53 - pop artist andy warhol begins making silk screen prints of mass-media images.
1962/--/-- 53 - rachel carson criticizes indiscriminate use of pesticides in her book silent spring.
1962/--/-- 53 - richard burton and elizabeth taylor star in cleopatra, the most expensive film to date.
1962/--/-- 53 - science fiction writer j.g. ballard publishes the drowned world.
1962/--/-- 53 - sonny liston defeats floyd patterson to become heavyweight boxing champion.
1962/--/-- 53 - television journalist walter cronkite is made anchorman of cbs evening news.
1962/--/-- 53 - the british pop group the beatles make their first recordings.
1962/--/-- 53 - the cuban missile crisis begins; soviet missiles are withdrawn from cuba.
1962/--/-- 53 - the mariner 2 spacecraft passes within 21,598 miles of venus.
1962/--/-- 53 - the u.s. supreme court rules that school prayers are a violation of the 1st amendment.
1962/--/-- 53 - the u.s. launches telstar, the first commercial communications satellite.
1962/--/-- 53 - the university of mississippi is forced to admit black student james meredith.
1962/02/27 53 *** welch, sherrie s. (uhlmann) [great niece] - born to welch, patrick r. and lafever, marjorie (welch) knoxville, tennessee
1962/10/-- 53 - world series nl san francisco (3) al new york (4)
1963/--/-- 54 - a un peace keeping force ends the secession attempt of katanga province (shaba).
1963/--/-- 54 - a limited nuclear test ban treaty is signed by britain, the u.s., and the ussr.
1963/--/-- 54 - american pop vocal group the beach boys release the record surfin' u.s.a.
1963/--/-- 54 - american writer mary mccarthy publishes the group.
1963/--/-- 54 - arecibo observatory begins observations with a 1,000-ft wide radio telescope.
1963/--/-- 54 - black nationalist joshua nkomo is imprisoned in rhodesia (now zimbabwe).
1963/--/-- 54 - britain's entry to the european economic community is blocked by france.
1963/--/-- 54 - british filmmaker joseph losey directs the servant.
1963/--/-- 54 - british spy harold (kim) philby defects to the ussr.
1963/--/-- 54 - czech dissident playwright vaclav havel writes the garden party.
1963/--/-- 54 - english writer john le carre publishes the spy who came in from the cold.
1963/--/-- 54 - filmmaker stanley kubrick directs the anti-war film dr. strangelove.
1963/--/-- 54 - football running back jim brown sets a record for rushes of 1,863 yards.
1963/--/-- 54 - jack nicklaus becomes the youngest golfer to win the masters tournament.
1963/--/-- 54 - john f. kennedy assassin lee harvey oswald is shot and killed by jack ruby.
1963/--/-- 54 - kennedy assassinated
1963/--/-- 54 - kenya gains independence from britain; jomo kenyatta becomes prime minister.
1963/--/-- 54 - levi eshkol succeeds david ben-gurion as prime minister of israel.
1963/--/-- 54 - ludwig erhard succeeds konrad adenauer as chancellor of west germany.
1963/--/-- 54 - lyndon b. johnson (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1963/--/-- 54 - lyndon b. johnson is inaugurated as the 36th president of the u.s.
1963/--/-- 54 - malaya, singapore, sarawak and sabah form the federation of malaysia.
1963/--/-- 54 - martin luther king, jr. makes his "i have a dream" speech in washington, d.c.
1963/--/-- 54 - peter sellers stars as inspector clouseau in the film the pink panther.
1963/--/-- 54 - pop artist claes oldenburg creates the kapok-filled sculpture soft typewriter.
1963/--/-- 54 - pop artist roy lichtenstein completes the comic strip painting whaam.
1963/--/-- 54 - president kennedy is assassinated in dallas, texas.
1963/--/-- 54 - president ngo dinh diem of south vietnam is assassinated.
1963/--/-- 54 - race-car driver jim clark wins seven grand prix events and the world title.
1963/--/-- 54 - sir alec douglas-home succeeds harold macmillan as british prime minister.
1963/--/-- 54 - soviet cosmonaut valentina tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1963/--/-- 54 - sylvia plath's novel the bell jar is published in the year of her death.
1963/--/-- 54 - the american x-15 research aircraft establishes an altitude record of 67 miles.
1963/--/-- 54 - the organization of african unity (oau) is established in addis ababa, ethiopia.
1963/--/-- 54 - the profumo sex scandal undermines the conservative government in britain.
1963/--/-- 54 - the rolling stones rock band is formed in britain.
1963/--/-- 54 - the first james bond film dr. no is produced.
1963/01/16 54 *** lafever, eli [uncle] - died putnam county tennessee pleasant view cem. putnam county tn
1963/03/15 54 *** goff, america alice (lafever) [mother] - died putnam county tn boiling springs cem. putnam county tn
1963/10/-- 54 - world series nl los angeles (4) al new york (0)
1963/12/25 55 *** love, joy lenette (resko) [granddaughter] - born to love, jimmie goff and davis, wilma kathleen (love)
1964/--/-- 55 - anc leader nelson mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment in south africa.
1964/--/-- 55 - an earthquake in alaska causes extensive damage and 114 fatalities.
1964/--/-- 55 - architect eero saarinen's st. louis arch memorial is completed.
1964/--/-- 55 - arno penzias and robert wilson discover the existence of background radiation.
1964/--/-- 55 - beatlemania develops during the first u.s. tour of the beatles pop group.
1964/--/-- 55 - black female group the supremes record the hit song where did our love go.
1964/--/-- 55 - britain grants independence to malawi; h. kamuzu banda becomes prime minister.
1964/--/-- 55 - britain grants independence to zambia; kenneth d. kaunda becomes president.
1964/--/-- 55 - britain grants independence to zanzibar.
1964/--/-- 55 - clint eastwood stars in sergio leone's "spaghetti western" a fistful of dollars.
1964/--/-- 55 - comedian lenny bruce is convicted for giving an obscene performance.
1964/--/-- 55 - craig breedlove sets a land speed record of 600 mph in a jet-powered vehicle.
1964/--/-- 55 - frelimo begins a war of independence against the portuguese in mozambique.
1964/--/-- 55 - faisal succeeds his brother saud as king of saudi arabia.
1964/--/-- 55 - fighting breaks out on cyprus between greek and turkish cypriots.
1964/--/-- 55 - general westmoreland is appointed to command the u.s. forces in south vietnam.
1964/--/-- 55 - gulf of tonkin incident
1964/--/-- 55 - gustavo diaz ordaz becomes president of mexico.
1964/--/-- 55 - ian smith becomes prime minister of rhodesia (now zimbabwe).
1964/--/-- 55 - illustrator maurice sendak wins a caldecott medal for where the wild things are.
1964/--/-- 55 - indian prime minister jawaharlal nehru dies; he is succeeded by lal bahadur shastri.
1964/--/-- 55 - johnson is reeelected as u.s. president; humphrey becomes vice-president (1965).
1964/--/-- 55 - julie andrews and dick van dyke star in the film mary poppins.
1964/--/-- 55 - muhammad ali defeats sonny liston for the heavyweight boxing championship.
1964/--/-- 55 - north vietnam allegedly attacks u.s. vessels in the gulf of tonkin.
1964/--/-- 55 - peter weiss' play marat/ sade is produced by british director peter brook.
1964/--/-- 55 - physicists murray gell-mann and george zweig propose the quark theory.
1964/--/-- 55 - soviet leader nikitakhrushchev is forced from office; aleksei kosygin becomes premier.
1964/--/-- 55 - tanganyika joins with zanzibar to form the united republic of tanzania.
1964/--/-- 55 - the american ranger 7 spacecraft transmits photos of the surface of the moon.
1964/--/-- 55 - the labour party is elected to power in britain; harold wilson becomes prime minister.
1964/--/-- 55 - the palestine liberation organization (plo) is formed to represent palestinians.
1964/--/-- 55 - the sr-71 blackbird reconnaissance aircraft is flown for the first time.
1964/--/-- 55 - the soviet voskhod 1 spacecraft is launched with a three-man crew.
1964/--/-- 55 - the tonkin gulf resolution escalates the use of u.s. personnel in vietnam.
1964/--/-- 55 - the u.s. civil rights act prohibits discrimination in employment.
1964/--/-- 55 - the u.s. surgeon general reports that cigarette smoking is a health hazard.
1964/--/-- 55 - the verrazano-narrows bridge opens in new york.
1964/--/-- 55 - the warren commission decides that oswald was the sole assassin of john f. kennedy.
1964/05/-- 55 *** bristow, roy duane [nephew] - graduated high school at clinton county high
1964/09/-- 55 *** bristow, roy duane [nephew] - began attending college at the university of kentucky at lexington
1964/10/-- 55 - world series nl st. louis (4) al new york (3)
1965/--/-- 56 - actress and singer barbara streisand stars in the broadway musical funny girl.
1965/--/-- 56 - american pop artist james rosenquist paints f-111.
1965/--/-- 56 - american writer norman mailer publishes an american dream.
1965/--/-- 56 - an attempted communist coup leads to military rule in indonesia under suharto.
1965/--/-- 56 - an electrical blackout in the northeastern u.s. affects 30 million people.
1965/--/-- 56 - astronaut edward h. white becomes the first american to walk in space.
1965/--/-- 56 - astronauts virgil grissom and john young orbit the earth in the first gemini spacecraft.
1965/--/-- 56 - bob dylan "like a rolling stone"
1965/--/-- 56 - british fashion designer mary quant introduces the miniskirt.
1965/--/-- 56 - civil war breaks out in the dominican republic; u.s. troops restore order.
1965/--/-- 56 - demonstrations against vietnam war
1965/--/-- 56 - gemini 6 and 7 spacecraft make the first rendezvous in space.
1965/--/-- 56 - houari boumedienne deposes president ahmed ben bella of algeria.
1965/--/-- 56 - irish writer edna o'brien publishes august is a wicked month.
1965/--/-- 56 - martin luther king, jr. leads a civil rights march from selma to montgomery, alabama.
1965/--/-- 56 - mobutu sese seko seizes control in the congo (zaire) for the second time.
1965/--/-- 56 - more than 180,000 u.s. troops are deployed in vietnam by the end of the year.
1965/--/-- 56 - neil simon's play the odd couple opens on broadway starring walter matthau.
1965/--/-- 56 - nicolae ceausescu succeeds gheorghe gheorghiu-dej as romanian leader.
1965/--/-- 56 - north vietnamese army units are in action in south vietnam for the first time.
1965/--/-- 56 - race riots begin in the watts section of los angeles.
1965/--/-- 56 - rhodesia (zimbabwe) makes a unilateral declaration of independence from britain.
1965/--/-- 56 - singapore secedes from malaysia; lee kuan yew remains as prime minister.
1965/--/-- 56 - soviet cosmonaut aleksei leonov makes the first space walk.
1965/--/-- 56 - the black muslim leader malcolm x is assassinated in new york city.
1965/--/-- 56 - the houston astrodome, the first covered stadium, is completed in texas.
1965/--/-- 56 - the mariner 4 spacecraft passes within 6,118 miles of the planet mars.
1965/--/-- 56 - the second india-pakistan war begins in kashmir.
1965/--/-- 56 - the u.s. government establishes medicare and medicaid health programs.
1965/--/-- 56 - the vietnam war escalates as the u.s. begins bombing north vietnam.
1965/04/17 56 *** harlan, eva pearl (bristow) & bristow, roy duane [nephew] - married - married in gainesboro, tn
1965/10/-- 56 - world series nl los angeles (4) al minnesota (3)
1966/--/-- 57 - american writer bernard malamud publishes the fixer.
1966/--/-- 57 - american writer truman capote publishes in cold blood.
1966/--/-- 57 - art treasures are ruined during severe floods in florence, italy.
1966/--/-- 57 - gen. yakubu gowon heads a military government after a countercoup in nigeria.
1966/--/-- 57 - hippie movement
1966/--/-- 57 - indian prime minister lal bahadur shastri dies; he is succeeded by indira gandhi.
1966/--/-- 57 - john jack lynch becomes prime minister of ireland.
1966/--/-- 57 - john v. lindsay becomes mayor of new york city.
1966/--/-- 57 - mao tse-tung begins china's cultural revolution.
1966/--/-- 57 - nigerian prime minister abubakar tafawa balewa is killed in a military coup.
1966/--/-- 57 - president de gaulle withdraws french forces from nato.
1966/--/-- 57 - president kwame nkrumah is ousted in a military coup in ghana.
1966/--/-- 57 - realist sculptor george segal completes the direct-cast plaster group the diner.
1966/--/-- 57 - south african prime minister hendrik verwoerd is assassinated.
1966/--/-- 57 - the american surveyor 1 spacecraft achieves the first soft-landing on the moon.
1966/--/-- 57 - the british hawker harrier becomes the first vtol (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft.
1966/--/-- 57 - the soviet luna 9 space probe makes the first landing on the moon.
1966/--/-- 57 - the soviets mediate to end the india-pakistan war.
1966/--/-- 57 - the first major rally against the vietnam war takes place in washington, d.c.
1966/--/-- 57 - tom stoppard's play rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is produced.
1966/09/-- 57 *** bristow, roy duane [nephew] - began attending forestry school at the university of georgia at athens
1966/10/-- 57 - world series nl los angeles (0) al baltimore (4)
1967/--/-- 58 - a civil war breaks out in nigeria after the secession of the state of biafra.
1967/--/-- 58 - a fire kills u.s. astronauts white, grissom and chaffee during a launch test.
1967/--/-- 58 - a military junta seizes control in greece; king constantine ii is exiled.
1967/--/-- 58 - american writer joyce carol oates publishes a garden of earthly delights.
1967/--/-- 58 - britain grants aden independence as the people's democratic republic of yemen.
1967/--/-- 58 - colombian writer gabriel garcia marquez publishes one hundred years of solitude.
1967/--/-- 58 - dr. christiaan barnard performs the first successful human heart transplant.
1967/--/-- 58 - dustin hoffman stars in mike nichols' film the graduate.
1967/--/-- 58 - gen. anastasio somoza debayle is elected president of nicaragua.
1967/--/-- 58 - israeli 6-day war
1967/--/-- 58 - latin american guerrilla leader che guevara is killed in bolivia.
1967/--/-- 58 - nguyen van thieu becomes president of south vietnam.
1967/--/-- 58 - peter fonda and dennis hopper star in the motorcycle film easy rider.
1967/--/-- 58 - quarterback joe namath sets a one-season record by passing for 4,007 yards.
1967/--/-- 58 - r. buckminster fuller designs a geodesic dome for the u.s. pavilion at expo '67.
1967/--/-- 58 - radio astronomers jocelyn bell burnell and antony hewish discover the first pulsar.
1967/--/-- 58 - sidney poitier and rod steiger star in the film in the heat of the night.
1967/--/-- 58 - soviet cosmonaut vladimir komarov is killed during the landing of soyuz 1.
1967/--/-- 58 - tennis player billie jean king wins the u.s. open championship for the first time.
1967/--/-- 58 - the beatles "sgt. pepper"
1967/--/-- 58 - the north american soccer league (nasl) is formed.
1967/--/-- 58 - the six-day war between israel and the arab states ends with israeli victory.
1967/--/-- 58 - the x-15 research aircraft establishes a speed record of mach 6.7 (4,520 mph).
1967/--/-- 58 - the hippie musical revue hair is produced.
1967/--/-- 58 - the residents of gibraltar vote to remain a british crown colony.
1967/--/-- 58 - thurgood marshall becomes the first black member of the u.s. supreme court.
1967/--/-- 58 - warren beaty and faye dunaway star in arthur penn's film bonnie and clyde.
1967/--/-- 58 - yachtsman francis chichester completes the first solo voyage around the world.
1967/10/-- 58 - world series nl st. louis (4) al boston (3)
1968/--/-- 59 - american skater peggy fleming wins the singles title at the winter olympic games.
1968/--/-- 59 - american track star bob beamon beats the olympic long jump record by almost 2 feet.
1968/--/-- 59 - american writer tom wolfe publishes the electric kool-aid acid test.
1968/--/-- 59 - anti-war demonstrators clash with police at the democratic convention in chicago.
1968/--/-- 59 - arthur ashe becomes the first black player to win a major men's tennis title.
1968/--/-- 59 - carlos castaneda publishes the teachings of don juan: a yaqui way of knowledge.
1968/--/-- 59 - civil rights leader martin luther king, jr. is assassinated.
1968/--/-- 59 - dick fosbury uses the fosbury flop to win the olympic gold medal for the high jump.
1968/--/-- 59 - filmmaker mel brooks directs, produces and appears in the producers.
1968/--/-- 59 - filmmaker stanley kubrick directs 2001: a space odyssey.
1968/--/-- 59 - french downhill skier jean claude killy wins three olympic gold medals.
1968/--/-- 59 - french filmmaker henri costa-gavras directs z.
1968/--/-- 59 - jacqueline kennedy marries the greek shipping millionaire aristotle onassis.
1968/--/-- 59 - kubrick "2001"
1968/--/-- 59 - may days mini-revolution
1968/--/-- 59 - more than 500,000 u.s. troops are deployed in vietnam.
1968/--/-- 59 - oceanographic ship glomar challenger begins the deep-sea drilling project.
1968/--/-- 59 - omar torrijos herrera overthrows the government of arnulfo arias in panama.
1968/--/-- 59 - pierre trudeau succeeds lester pearson as prime minister of canada.
1968/--/-- 59 - polish filmmaker roman polanski directs rosemary's baby.
1968/--/-- 59 - portuguese dictator antonio de oliveira salazar is succeeded by marcello caetano.
1968/--/-- 59 - president johnson announces he will not seek a second term of office.
1968/--/-- 59 - presidential candidate robert f. kennedy is assassinated.
1968/--/-- 59 - spain grants independence to equatorial guinea.
1968/--/-- 59 - spanish operatic tenor placido domingo debuts at the metropolitan opera.
1968/--/-- 59 - student-worker revolts almost topple the goverment of charles de gaulle in france.
1968/--/-- 59 - the apollo 8 spacecraft makes the first manned orbit of the moon.
1968/--/-- 59 - the catholic minority in northern ireland demonstrate for british rights.
1968/--/-- 59 - the federal gun control act regulates the interstate commerce in firearms.
1968/--/-- 59 - the saturn rocket lifts the apollo 7 spacecraft into low earth orbit.
1968/--/-- 59 - the u.s. navy intelligence gathering ship pueblo is seized by north korea.
1968/--/-- 59 - the viet cong launch the tet offensive in vietnam.
1968/--/-- 59 - u.s. troops massacre vietnamese civilians at my lai.
1968/--/-- 59 - vietnam war begins
1968/--/-- 59 - warsaw pact forces invade czechoslovakia to counter increasing liberalization.
1968/05/30 59 *** bristow, roy duane [nephew] - bachelor of science in forestry university of georgia, school of forestry, athens, georgia
1968/06/-- 59 *** bristow, roy duane [nephew] - began employment with the kentucky division of forestry at pineville, ky
1968/06/29 59 *** lafever, asher [uncle] - died baxter, tn nash cemetery - putnam county tn
1968/10/-- 59 - world series nl st. louis (3) al detroit (4)
1969/--/-- 60 - a rock-music festival at woodstock, n.y, attracts a crowd of 500,000.
1969/--/-- 60 - american astronauts neil armstrong and buzz aldrin land on the moon.
1969/--/-- 60 - american writer kurt vonnegut, jr. publishes slaughterhouse-five.
1969/--/-- 60 - australian rod laver becomes the only tennis player to win the grand slam twice.
1969/--/-- 60 - british filmmaker ken russell directs glenda jackson in women in love.
1969/--/-- 60 - british writer john fowles publishes the french lieutenant's woman.
1969/--/-- 60 - catholics and protestants clash in northern ireland; british troops restore order.
1969/--/-- 60 - charles manson and his followers kill actress sharon tate and six of her friends.
1969/--/-- 60 - col. muammar al-qaddafi seizes control in libya; king idris is deposed.
1969/--/-- 60 - dustin hoffman and jon voight star in john schlesinger's film midnight cowboy.
1969/--/-- 60 - edward kennedy's female companion dies in a car accident off the chappaquiddick bridge.
1969/--/-- 60 - gen. gaafar al-nimeiry seizes power in sudan.
1969/--/-- 60 - general de gaulle resigns; georges pompidou becomes president of france.
1969/--/-- 60 - golda meir becomes prime minister of israel after the death of levi eshkol.
1969/--/-- 60 - ira provisionals launch a terrorist campaign against british troops in ireland.
1969/--/-- 60 - liberal czech leader alexander dubcek is replaced by gustav husak.
1969/--/-- 60 - nixon is inaugurated as the 37th u.s. president; agnew becomes vice-president.
1969/--/-- 60 - nudity shocks audiences in kenneth tynan's broadway revue oh! calcutta!.
1969/--/-- 60 - paul newman and robert redford star in butch cassidy and the sundance kid.
1969/--/-- 60 - president ayub khan is deposed by gen. muhammad yahya khan in pakistan.
1969/--/-- 60 - president nixon begins to withdraw u.s. forces from vietnam.
1969/--/-- 60 - richard m. nixon (republican) becomes president of the united states
1969/--/-- 60 - the anglo-french supersonic transport concorde makes its first flight.
1969/--/-- 60 - the children's television workshop series sesame street is first shown.
1969/--/-- 60 - the monty python's flying circus television program premiers in britain.
1969/--/-- 60 - the immigration of salvadorans into honduras leads to a brief border war.
1969/--/-- 60 - willy brandt succeeds kurt kiesinger as chancellor of west germany.
1969/--/-- 60 - yasir arafat becomes chairman of the palestine liberation organization (plo).
1969/10/-- 60 *** bristow, roy duane [nephew] - moved trailer to an apple orchard on clear creek in bell county kentucky
1969/10/-- 60 - world series nl new york (4) al baltimore (1)
1970/--/-- 61 *** jackson, errin burr [great grandson] - born to love, rhonda jane (jackson)
1970/--/-- 61 - american writer maya angelou publishes i know why the caged bird sings.
1970/--/-- 61 - australian tennis player margaret smith court wins the grand slam.
1970/--/-- 61 - britain grants independence to fiji.
1970/--/-- 61 - bruno kreisky succeeds josef klaus as chancellor of austria.
1970/--/-- 61 - cartoonist garry trudeau begins satirizing public figures and politics in doonesbury.
1970/--/-- 61 - civil war begins in jordan between government forces and palestinian guerrillas.
1970/--/-- 61 - civil war begins in jordan between government forces and palestinian guerrillas.
1970/--/-- 61 - donald sutherland stars in robert altman's anti-war film m*a*s*h.
1970/--/-- 61 - epa established to enforce clean air act
1970/--/-- 61 - edward heath becomes conservative prime minister of britain.
1970/--/-- 61 - egyptian president gamal abdel nasser dies; he is succeeded by anwar al-sadat.
1970/--/-- 61 - former defense minister hafez al-assad seizes power in syria.
1970/--/-- 61 - french filmmaker eric rohmer directs claire's knee.
1970/--/-- 61 - george c. scott stars in the academy award winning film patton.
1970/--/-- 61 - marxist leader salvadore allende is elected president of chile.
1970/--/-- 61 - norman borlaug wins the nobel peace prize for breeding miracle wheat strains.
1970/--/-- 61 - ohio national guardsmen kill four kent state students during an anti-war protest.
1970/--/-- 61 - president nixon orders an incursion into cambodia to combat the khmer rouge.
1970/--/-- 61 - riots in poland force wladyslaw gomulka to resign in favor of edward gierek.
1970/--/-- 61 - rock music guitarist jimi hendrix dies from a drug overdose.
1970/--/-- 61 - sihanouk is deposed in cambodia; khmer rouge seize the western provinces.
1970/--/-- 61 - sixties energy wins smaller battles: feminism, ecology...
1970/--/-- 61 - songwriting duo simon and garfunkel record bridge over troubled water.
1970/--/-- 61 - the amtrak intercity rail passenger service is created by act of congress.
1970/--/-- 61 - the apollo 13 crew return to earth after an explosion aboard their command module.
1970/--/-- 61 - the beatles pop group is disbanded.
1970/--/-- 61 - the boeing 747 jumbo jet airliner enters service.
1970/--/-- 61 - the environmental protection agency (epa) is established in the u.s.
1970/--/-- 61 - the soviet space probe venera 7 transmits the first data from the surface of venus.
1970/--/-- 61 - the building of the aswan high dam is completed in egypt.
1970/--/-- 61 - the civil war ends between nigeria and the breakaway state of biafra.
1970/--/-- 61 - u.s. invades cambodia
1970/--/-- 61 - writer and feminist germaine greer publishes the female eunuch.
1970/07/08 61 *** bristow, david jesse [great nephew] - born to bristow, roy duane and harlan, eva pearl (bristow)
1970/10/-- 61 - world series nl cincinnati (1) al baltimore (4)
1971/--/-- 62 - alistair cooke begins hosting the pbs television series masterpiece theatre.
1971/--/-- 62 - american film actor and director clint eastwood stars in dirty harry.
1971/--/-- 62 - andrew lloyd webber's rock-opera jesus christ superstar opens on broadway.
1971/--/-- 62 - austrian kurt waldheim succeeds u thant as un secretary general.
1971/--/-- 62 - british actor dirk bogard stars in luchino visconti's film death in venice.
1971/--/-- 62 - chilean poet pablo neruda wins the nobel prize for literature.
1971/--/-- 62 - col. hugo banzer suarez seizes power in bolivia in a military coup.
1971/--/-- 62 - daniel ellsberg releases copies of the pentagon papers to the new york times.
1971/--/-- 62 - east pakistan declares its independence from west pakistan, beginning a civil war.
1971/--/-- 62 - erich honecker becomes the head of state for east germany.
1971/--/-- 62 - ice hockey player phil esposito scores a record 76 goals in 78 games.
1971/--/-- 62 - jean claude duvalier succeeds his father as president of haiti.
1971/--/-- 62 - joe frazier defeats muhammad ali for the heavyweight boxing title.
1971/--/-- 62 - lt. william calley is found guilty of killing vietnamese civilians at my lai.
1971/--/-- 62 - prime minister brian faulkner begins the internment of ira suspects in northern ireland.
1971/--/-- 62 - prime minister milton obote is ousted by idi amin dada in uganda.
1971/--/-- 62 - south vietnamese troops and u.s. aircraft combat communist forces in laos.
1971/--/-- 62 - soviet "salyut 1" space station
1971/--/-- 62 - soyuz 11 docks with salyut 1; three cosmonauts die during the return to earth.
1971/--/-- 62 - the congo is renamed as the republic of zaire.
1971/--/-- 62 - the lunar rover explores the moon's surface during the apollo 15 mission.
1971/--/-- 62 - the republic of china (taiwan) loses its un seat; communist china is admitted.
1971/--/-- 62 - the support of india wins independence for east pakistan (renamed as bangladesh).
1971/04/15 62 *** goff, nancy (pullum) [aunt] - died
1971/10/-- 62 *** bristow, roy duane [nephew] - bought a log house near rockholds in whitley county kentucky and moved
1971/10/-- 62 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al baltimore (3)
1971/10/19 62 *** goff, betty ann (morris) [aunt] - died morris cem. putnam county tn
1972/--/-- 63 - alabama governor george wallace is shot in an assassination attempt.
1972/--/-- 63 - american b-52 aircraft bomb hanoi and haiphong in north vietnam.
1972/--/-- 63 - american bobby fischer defeats russian world chess champion boris spassky.
1972/--/-- 63 - american feminist gloria steinem founds ms. magazine.
1972/--/-- 63 - american swimmer mark spitz wins a record seven olympic gold medals.
1972/--/-- 63 - an earthquake kills 10,000 in the nicaraguan capital of managua.
1972/--/-- 63 - apollo 17 makes the last manned moon landing.
1972/--/-- 63 - ceylon changes its name to sri lanka (meaning beautiful island).
1972/--/-- 63 - ddt insecticide is banned in the u.s.
1972/--/-- 63 - ddt is banned
1972/--/-- 63 - filmmaker francis ford coppola directs marlon brando in the godfather.
1972/--/-- 63 - german writer heinrich boll receives the nobel prize for literature.
1972/--/-- 63 - japanese novelist kawabata yasunari commits suicide.
1972/--/-- 63 - liza minnelli stars in bob fosse's film cabaret.
1972/--/-- 63 - marlon brando stars in bernardo bertolucci's film last tango in paris.
1972/--/-- 63 - mujibur rahman becomes prime minister of bangladesh.
1972/--/-- 63 - palestinian terrorists kill 11 israeli athletes at the munich olympics.
1972/--/-- 63 - president ferdinand marcos imposes martial law in the philippines.
1972/--/-- 63 - president nixon authorizes the space shuttle program.
1972/--/-- 63 - president nixon makes his historic trip to peking to meet mao tse-tung.
1972/--/-- 63 - richard leakey discovers a hominid skull 2.6 million years old in northern kenya.
1972/--/-- 63 - soviet gymnast olga korbut wins three olympic gold medals.
1972/--/-- 63 - the british government assumes direct rule of northern ireland.
1972/--/-- 63 - the labor party is elected in australia with gough whitlam as prime minister.
1972/--/-- 63 - the viet cong and north vietnamese renew their offensive in south vietnam.
1972/--/-- 63 - the watergate affair begins with the arrest of five burglars at democratic party headquarters.
1972/10/-- 63 - world series nl cincinnati (3) al oakland (4)
1973/--/-- 64 - a right-wing military coup in chile overthrows allende's marxist government.
1973/--/-- 64 - aleksandr solzhenitsyn publishes the first volume of the gulag archipelago.
1973/--/-- 64 - american novelist thomas pynchon publishes gravity's rainbow.
1973/--/-- 64 - american playwright thornton wilder publishes the novel theophilus north.
1973/--/-- 64 - animal behavioralists lorenz, tinbergen and von frisch share the nobel prize.
1973/--/-- 64 - billy friedkin "the exorcist"
1973/--/-- 64 - britain grants independence to the bahama islands.
1973/--/-- 64 - charles xvi gustav succeeds gustav vi adolf as king of sweden.
1973/--/-- 64 - congress passes the endangered species act.
1973/--/-- 64 - egypt and syria attack israel on yom kippur (a jewish religious holiday).
1973/--/-- 64 - endangered species act
1973/--/-- 64 - film actor al pacino stars as an undercover policeman in serpico.
1973/--/-- 64 - great britain, denmark and ireland become full-fledged members of the eec.
1973/--/-- 64 - henry kissinger and le duc tho share the nobel peace prize.
1973/--/-- 64 - juan d. peron returns to power as president of argentina.
1973/--/-- 64 - nixon resigns over watergate
1973/--/-- 64 - novelist, poet, and feminist erica jong publishes fear of flying.
1973/--/-- 64 - opec begins an oil embargo against europe, the u.s. and japan.
1973/--/-- 64 - pop recording artist billy joel releases his first album piano man.
1973/--/-- 64 - senator sam ervin, jr. heads a committee to investigate the watergate break-in.
1973/--/-- 64 - solzhenitsyn "gulag archipelago"
1973/--/-- 64 - swedish actor max von sydow stars in the supernatural film the exorcist.
1973/--/-- 64 - the american indian movement occupy the site of wounded knee in a political protest.
1973/--/-- 64 - the arab-israeli war ends after 18 days with a un negotiated cease-fire.
1973/--/-- 64 - the paris peace accords end the vietnam war.
1973/--/-- 64 - the pioneer 10 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet jupiter.
1973/--/-- 64 - the skylab manned orbiting laboratory is launched.
1973/--/-- 64 - the u.s. begins a total military withdrawal from south vietnam.
1973/--/-- 64 - the washington post receives the pulitzer prize for reporting the watergate scandal.
1973/--/-- 64 - the world trade center in new york city becomes the tallest building in the world.
1973/--/-- 64 - vice-president spiro agnew resigns after he is charged with accepting bribes.
1973/--/-- 64 - vietnam war ends
1973/--/-- 64 - war powers act
1973/--/-- 64 - watergate prosecutor archibald cox is dismissed for demanding the nixon tapes.
1973/10/-- 64 - world series nl new york (3) al oakland (4)
1974/--/-- 65 *** lafever, nora linnie (bristow) [sister] - multiple sclerosis caused loss of ability to walk. confined to a wheel chair.
1974/--/-- 65 - a military coup in portugal leads to democratic reforms.
1974/--/-- 65 - american tennis player chris evert wins a record 56 consecutive matches.
1974/--/-- 65 - american tennis player jimmy connors wins the u.s. open tournament for the first time.
1974/--/-- 65 - american writer stephen king publishes the horror novel carrie.
1974/--/-- 65 - an army of life-size pottery figures is discovered in a ch'in dynasty tomb in china.
1974/--/-- 65 - archbishop makarios is deposed, prompting a turkish invasion of cyprus.
1974/--/-- 65 - baseball player hank aaron breaks babe ruth's record of 714 home-runs.
1974/--/-- 65 - emperor haile selassie is deposed in a military coup in ethiopia.
1974/--/-- 65 - former astronaut john glenn is elected to the u.s. senate.
1974/--/-- 65 - general augusto pinochet ugarte becomes president of chile.
1974/--/-- 65 - gerald r. ford (republican) becomes president of the united states
1974/--/-- 65 - helmut schmidt becomes chancellor of west germany.
1974/--/-- 65 - isabel peron becomes president of argentina after the death of her husband.
1974/--/-- 65 - james michener publishes centennial, a historical novel of the american west.
1974/--/-- 65 - konstantinos g. karamanlis becomes prime minister of greece.
1974/--/-- 65 - patricia hearst is abducted by members of the symbionese liberation army (sla).
1974/--/-- 65 - portugal recognizes the independence of guinea-bissau.
1974/--/-- 65 - president ford grants richard nixon a pardon for any crimes committed in office.
1974/--/-- 65 - president giscard d'estaing appoints jacques chirac prime minister of france.
1974/--/-- 65 - president nixon resigns; gerald r. ford is inaugurated as the 38th u.s. president.
1974/--/-- 65 - reiner werner fassbinder "ali-- fear eats the soul"
1974/--/-- 65 - south african golfer gary player achieves the grand slam.
1974/--/-- 65 - soviet ballet dancer mikhail baryshnikov defects to the west.
1974/--/-- 65 - the house judiciary committee votes to impeach president nixon.
1974/--/-- 65 - the mariner 10 spacecraft passes within 438 miles of the planet mercury.
1974/--/-- 65 - the sears tower in chicago surpasses the world trade center as the tallest building.
1974/--/-- 65 - the crisis on cyprus causes the collapse of the military regime in greece.
1974/--/-- 65 - willy brandt is forced to resign after an east german spy is discovered on his staff.
1974/--/-- 65 - yitzhak rabin succeeds golda meir as prime minister of israel.
1974/05/-- 65 *** goodwin, david carroll [nephew] - graduated 12th grade white county high school, sparta, tn
1974/10/-- 65 - world series nl los angeles (1) al oakland (4)
1975/--/-- 66 *** lafever, levi lee [uncle] - died coffee county, tn
1975/--/-- 66 - american novelist saul bellow publishes humboldt's gift.
1975/--/-- 66 - american writer e.l. doctorow publishes ragtime.
1975/--/-- 66 - bobby fischer refuses to defend his chess title; anatoly karpov is made champion.
1975/--/-- 66 - brazilian soccer star pele ends his retirement to play for the new york cosmos.
1975/--/-- 66 - civil war breaks out after the portuguese withdraw from angola.
1975/--/-- 66 - civil war breaks out in lebanon between muslim and christian forces.
1975/--/-- 66 - communist pathet lao declare laos the people's democratic republic.
1975/--/-- 66 - cyprus is partitioned into greek and turkish zones.
1975/--/-- 66 - czech tennis star martina navratilova defects to the u.s.
1975/--/-- 66 - dutch guiana gains its independence as the republic of suriname.
1975/--/-- 66 - eritrean rebels begin their fight for independence in ethiopia.
1975/--/-- 66 - football player o.j. simpson scores a record 23 touchdowns in one season.
1975/--/-- 66 - gen. yakubu gowon is deposed in a military coup in nigeria.
1975/--/-- 66 - juan carlos i becomes king of spain after the death of general francisco franco.
1975/--/-- 66 - michael bennett directs and choreographs the broadway musical a chorus line.
1975/--/-- 66 - mozambique wins independence from portugal; samora machel becomes the president.
1975/--/-- 66 - north vietnamese forces overrun saigon, which is renamed as ho chi minh city.
1975/--/-- 66 - papua new guinea becomes independent from australian administration.
1975/--/-- 66 - president mujibur rahman is killed in a military coup in bangladesh.
1975/--/-- 66 - president n'garta tombalbaye of chad is killed in a coup d'etat.
1975/--/-- 66 - prime minister pol pot begins a reign of terror in kampuchea.
1975/--/-- 66 - robert macneil and jim lehrer begin the pbs macneil/lehrer news analysis program.
1975/--/-- 66 - saudi king faisal is assassinated; he is succeeded by his brother khalid.
1975/--/-- 66 - singer-songwriter bruce springsteen releases the rock album born to run.
1975/--/-- 66 - south vietnam capitulates; a mass exodus of boat people begins.
1975/--/-- 66 - south vietnam surrenders to north vietnam
1975/--/-- 66 - soviet dissident andrei sakharov wins the nobel peace prize.
1975/--/-- 66 - steven spielberg's film jaws sets new box-office records.
1975/--/-- 66 - taiwanese leader chiang kai-shek dies; he is succeeded by chiang ching-kuo.
1975/--/-- 66 - the helsinki accords pledge the signatory nations to respect human rights.
1975/--/-- 66 - the khmer rouge win control of cambodia and rename the country kampuchea.
1975/--/-- 66 - the republic of comoros declares its independence from france.
1975/--/-- 66 - the suez canal reopens after being closed to shipping for eight years.
1975/--/-- 66 - u.s. marines recapture the u.s. freighter mayaguez from kampuchean forces.
1975/--/-- 66 - u.s. astronauts and soviet cosmonauts linkup during the apollo-soyuz mission.
1975/02/20 66 *** lafever, ella odell (goff) [1st cousin once removed] - died goff cem. dekalb county tn
1975/06/24 66 *** forsyth, donald bruce [great nephew] - born to forsyth, donald brian and dilldine, carolyn june (forsyth)
1975/08/01 66 *** bristow, roy duane [nephew] - incorporated bristow farms
1975/10/-- 66 - world series nl cincinnati (4) al boston (3)
1975/12/21 67 *** moore, james & allison, denise gale (moore) [niece] - married almyra methodist church, white county tn.
1976/--/-- 67 - a severe earthquake in china kills over 600,000.
1976/--/-- 67 - actor jack nicholson wins the academy award for one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
1976/--/-- 67 - artist christo completes running fence, a curtain spanning 24 miles of countryside.
1976/--/-- 67 - black american writer alex haley publishes roots: the saga of an american family.
1976/--/-- 67 - black student protestors are massacred at soweto in south africa.
1976/--/-- 67 - chinese leaders chou en-lai and mao tse-tung die; hua kuo-feng assumes power.
1976/--/-- 67 - finnish runner lasse viren wins the olympic 5,000- and 10,000-m races for the second time.
1976/--/-- 67 - isabel peron is deposed; jorge rafael videla becomes president of argentina.
1976/--/-- 67 - israeli commandos rescue hijacked airplane passengers at entebbe, uganda.
1976/--/-- 67 - james callaghan succeeds harold wilson as prime minister of britain.
1976/--/-- 67 - jim henson's muppet show debuts on television.
1976/--/-- 67 - jose lopez portillo y pacheco is elected president of mexico.
1976/--/-- 67 - mario soares is elected prime minister of portugal for the first time.
1976/--/-- 67 - robert de niro stars in martin scorcese's film taxi driver.
1976/--/-- 67 - romanian gymnast nadia comaneci wins three gold medals at the montreal olympics.
1976/--/-- 67 - separatist leader rene levesque becomes premier of quebec.
1976/--/-- 67 - suarez gonzalez becomes prime minister of spain after the first election in 41 years.
1976/--/-- 67 - swedish tennis star bjorn borg wins the first of five wimbledon championships.
1976/--/-- 67 - sylvester stallone's film rocky wins the academy award as best picture.
1976/--/-- 67 - the sex pistols punk rock group is formed in england.
1976/--/-- 67 - the south african homeland of transkei becomes independent.
1976/--/-- 67 - the u.s. celebrates its bicentennial.
1976/--/-- 67 - the first outbreak of legionnaires' disease occurs in philadelphia.
1976/--/-- 67 - the pro-soviet mpla government seizes power in angola aided by cuban troops.
1976/--/-- 67 - u.s. viking spacecraft land on mars.
1976/--/-- 67 - viking 1 & 2 land on mars
1976/01/05 67 *** forsyth, ada mireille {tina michelle} [great niece] - born to forsyth, donald brian and dilldine, carolyn june (forsyth)
1976/08/-- 67 *** bristow, david jesse [great nephew] - began elementary school at rockholds elementary in whitley county, ky
1976/10/-- 67 - world series nl cincinnati (4) al new york (0)
1977/--/-- 68 - american golfer tom watson wins the masters and british open tournaments.
1977/--/-- 68 - american hurdler edwin moses begins a winning streak of 90 consecutive races.
1977/--/-- 68 - american poet and novelist wendell berry, publishes the unsettling of america.
1977/--/-- 68 - black politician andrew young is appointed as u.s. ambassador to the un.
1977/--/-- 68 - carter is inaugurated as the 39th u.s. president; mondale becomes vice-presicent.
1977/--/-- 68 - comedian and filmmaker woody allen directs diane keaton in annie hall.
1977/--/-- 68 - edward (ed) koch becomes mayor of new york city for the first time.
1977/--/-- 68 - general zia ul-haq deposes prime minister zulfikar ali bhutto in pakistan.
1977/--/-- 68 - george lucas "star wars"
1977/--/-- 68 - george lucas directs the first star wars space fantasy film.
1977/--/-- 68 - james e. carter, jr. (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1977/--/-- 68 - jean bedel bokassa is crowned emperor bokassa i of the central african empire.
1977/--/-- 68 - john travolta stars in the disco film saturday night fever.
1977/--/-- 68 - menachem begin succeeds yitzhak rabin as prime minister of israel.
1977/--/-- 68 - morarji randchhadji desai succeeds indira gandhi as prime minister of india.
1977/--/-- 68 - rock 'n roll performer elvis presley dies.
1977/--/-- 68 - seveteen-year old american jockey steve cauthen rides a record 487 winners.
1977/--/-- 68 - south africa grants independence to the african homeland of bophuthatswana.
1977/--/-- 68 - the fianna fail party returns to power under john lynch in the republic of ireland.
1977/--/-- 68 - the french territory of the afars and the issas becomes independent as djibouti.
1977/--/-- 68 - the first apple ii personal computer is marketed in the u.s.
1977/06/02 68 *** goodwin, david carroll [nephew] - began work at thomas industries which later became phillips lighting
1977/10/-- 68 - world series nl los angeles (2) al new york (4)
1977/11/13 69 *** jackson, lea lynette (johnson) [great granddaughter] - born to love, rhonda jane (jackson)
1977/12/13 69 *** bristow, christopher michael [great nephew] - born to bristow, roy duane and harlan, eva pearl (bristow) corbin, kentucky
1978/--/-- 69 - afghanistan president mohammad daud khan is killed in a marxist coup.
1978/--/-- 69 - american auto racer mario andretti wins the formula one grand prix championship.
1978/--/-- 69 - american golfer nancy lopez wins a record five straight tournaments.
1978/--/-- 69 - american writer john irving publishes the world according to garp.
1978/--/-- 69 - antonio guzman becomes president of the dominican republic.
1978/--/-- 69 - boxer larry holmes defeats ken norton for the heavyweight championship.
1978/--/-- 69 - britain grants independence to tuvalu, dominica, and the solomon islands.
1978/--/-- 69 - italian politician aldo moro is kidnapped and murdered by red brigade terrorists.
1978/--/-- 69 - jerry falwell founds the moral majority
1978/--/-- 69 - michael cimino directs the controversial vietnam war film the deer hunter.
1978/--/-- 69 - more than 900 members of a religious cult commit suicide at jonestown, guyana.
1978/--/-- 69 - pieter willem botha becomes prime minister of south africa.
1978/--/-- 69 - pope john paul ii becomes the first non-italian pope in more than 500 years.
1978/--/-- 69 - president carter oversees the camp david peace accords between egypt and israel.
1978/--/-- 69 - punk rock
1978/--/-- 69 - the pompidou center art museum (the beaubourg) is opened in paris.
1978/--/-- 69 - the united states and panama renew the panama canal treaties.
1978/--/-- 69 - the balloon double eagle ii completes the first atlantic crossing.
1978/--/-- 69 - the first human test-tube baby is born in england.
1978/--/-- 69 - the murder of opposition leader pedro joaquin chamorro sparks uprisings in nicaragua.
1978/--/-- 69 - yiddish-language writer isaac bashevis singer wins the nobel prize for literature.
1978/--/-- 69 - personal computer
1978/01/10 69 *** lafever, charlie columbus [brother] - died spears cem. baxter, tn
1978/03/-- 69 *** bristow, christopher michael [great nephew] - open heart surgery at university of kentucky medical center in lexington
1978/10/-- 69 - world series nl los angeles (2) al new york (4)
1978/10/01 69 *** forsyth, thomas alexander (sandy) brian [great nephew] - born to forsyth, donald brian and dilldine, carolyn june (forsyth)
1978/11/27 70 *** love, james hosie [husband] - died goff cemetery, dekalb county tennessee
1979/--/-- 70 - abel muzorewa becomes the first black prime minister of rhodesia (zimbabwe).
1979/--/-- 70 - algerian president houari boumedienne dies; he is succeeded by chadli benjedid.
1979/--/-- 70 - american novelist william styron publishes sophie's choice.
1979/--/-- 70 - american tennis player john mcenroe wins his first u.s. open championship.
1979/--/-- 70 - american tennis player tracy austin wins the u.s. open championship at age 16.
1979/--/-- 70 - an accident at the three mile island nuclear power plant causes a near-disaster.
1979/--/-- 70 - andrew lloyd webber's musical evita opens on broadway.
1979/--/-- 70 - british runner sebastian coe sets world records at 800 m, 1,500 m, and the mile.
1979/--/-- 70 - charles haughey succeeds john lynch as president of the republic of ireland.
1979/--/-- 70 - dutch soccer star johan cruyff plays for the l.a. aztecs.
1979/--/-- 70 - ex-prime minister zulfikar ali bhutto is executed in pakistan.
1979/--/-- 70 - francis ford coppola directs the vietnam war film apocalypse now.
1979/--/-- 70 - gen. saddam hussein succeeds gen. al-bakr as president of iraq.
1979/--/-- 70 - ira terrorists assassinate lord mountbatten in ireland.
1979/--/-- 70 - islamic fundamentalist ayatollah ruhollah khomeini returns to iran.
1979/--/-- 70 - jean bedel bokassa is deposed in the central african republic.
1979/--/-- 70 - jose eduardo dos santos succeeds agostinho neto as president of angola.
1979/--/-- 70 - margaret thatcher becomes britain's first woman prime minister.
1979/--/-- 70 - morocco annexes western sahara; the polisario front fight for independence.
1979/--/-- 70 - mother teresa of calcutta is awarded the nobel peace prize.
1979/--/-- 70 - pioneer 11 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet saturn.
1979/--/-- 70 - quarterback roger staubach leads nfl passing, completing 267 out of 461 passes.
1979/--/-- 70 - revolution in iran; americans held hostage
1979/--/-- 70 - shehu shagari becomes president of nigeria.
1979/--/-- 70 - sixty-six u.s. embassy employees are taken hostage by iranian students in tehran.
1979/--/-- 70 - south korean president park chung hee is assassinated.
1979/--/-- 70 - soviet troops occupy afghanistan in support of babrak karmal's marxist regime.
1979/--/-- 70 - soviets lose war in afganistan
1979/--/-- 70 - tanzanians and ugandan exiles invade uganda; dictator idi amin dada flees.
1979/--/-- 70 - the gossamer albatross flies across the english channel under human-power.
1979/--/-- 70 - the mujaheddin begin a guerrilla war against the soviet forces in afghanistan.
1979/--/-- 70 - the sandinistas seize control in nicaragua.
1979/--/-- 70 - the shah of iran flees the country; iran is proclaimed an islamic republic.
1979/--/-- 70 - the first case of aids (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is reported.
1979/--/-- 70 - vietnamese forces invade kampuchea and overthrow the pol pot government.
1979/--/-- 70 - voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft rendezvous with the planet jupiter.
1979/06/-- 70 *** bristow, roy duane [nephew] - left the kentucky division of forestry and built a house on the family farm in clinton county & moved to begin farming & computer consulting.
1979/06/25 70 *** goff, charlie clay [uncle] - died cookeville, tennessee goff cem. dekalb county tn.
1979/08/-- 70 *** bristow, david jesse [great nephew] - began 4th grade at clinton county elementary in albany, kentucky
1979/10/-- 70 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al baltimore (3)
1980/--/-- 71 - "war on drugs" jails 1/5 of young black men
1980/--/-- 71 - an earthquake in algeria kills 20,000.
1980/--/-- 71 - border disputes erupt into the gulf war between iran and iraq.
1980/--/-- 71 - boxer sugar ray leonard regains the world welterweight title from roberto duran.
1980/--/-- 71 - british writer d.m. thomas publishes the white hotel.
1980/--/-- 71 - cd, vcr, & cable become common
1980/--/-- 71 - chun doo hwan becomes president of south korea.
1980/--/-- 71 - ex-beatle john lennon is fatally shot outside his manhattan apartment.
1980/--/-- 71 - ex-nicaraguan president anastasio somoza debayle is assassinated.
1980/--/-- 71 - gen. kenan evren leads a military coup in turkey.
1980/--/-- 71 - hollywood remakes b-movies and comix
1980/--/-- 71 - jose napoleon duarte becomes president of el salvador; the guerilla war continues.
1980/--/-- 71 - lech walesa heads solidarity, the first union movement in a communist country.
1980/--/-- 71 - liberian president william r. tolbert is killed in a military coup led by samuel doe.
1980/--/-- 71 - love canal, a chemically contaminated area in n.y., is declared a disaster area.
1980/--/-- 71 - meryl streep and dustin hoffman star in the film kramer v. kramer.
1980/--/-- 71 - milton obote is reelected as president of uganda.
1980/--/-- 71 - mount st. helens erupts in washington state killing eight people.
1980/--/-- 71 - peter shaffer's play amadeus is produced.
1980/--/-- 71 - rhodesia is renamed zimbabwe; robert mugabe becomes prime minister.
1980/--/-- 71 - robert redford directs the academy award winning film ordinary people.
1980/--/-- 71 - solidarity in poland
1980/--/-- 71 - ted turner begins the cable news network, offering round-the-clock news.
1980/--/-- 71 - the american television soap opera dallas is first broadcast.
1980/--/-- 71 - the castro regime deports more than 120,000 cubans to florida.
1980/--/-- 71 - the fbi's abscam investigation convicts seven members of the u.s. congress.
1980/--/-- 71 - the new hebrides become independent from britain and france as vanuatu.
1980/--/-- 71 - the u.s. boycotts the moscow olympics to protest the invasion of afghanistan.
1980/--/-- 71 - the u.s. makes an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the iranian hostages.
1980/--/-- 71 - the voyager 1 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet saturn.
1980/01/20 71 - president carter announces that u.s. athletes will not attend summer olympics in moscow unless soviet union withdraws from afghanistan.
1980/02/02 71 - fbi's undercover bribery investigation, code named abscam, implicates a u.s. senator, seven members of the house, and 31 other public officials.
1980/03/28 71 *** lafever, columbus [uncle] - died cookeville gen. hospital spears cem. baxter tn
1980/04/25 71 - u.s. mission to rescue hostages in iran is aborted after a helicopter and cargo plane collide at the staging site in a remote part of iran and 8 serviceme
are killed.
1980/05/19 71 *** lafever, luke gilliam [father] - died cookeville, tn boiling springs cem. baxter tn
1980/07/08 71 *** goff, dovie ellen [2nd cousin] - died warren, macomb, michigan
1980/10/-- 71 - world series nl philadelphia (4) al kansas city (2)
1981/--/-- 72 - andreas panpandreou becomes prime minister of greece.
1981/--/-- 72 - anwar al-sadat is killed; hosni mubarak becomes president of egypt.
1981/--/-- 72 - argentinian president roberto viola is ousted from power by general galtieri.
1981/--/-- 72 - black american novelist toni morrison publishes tar baby.
1981/--/-- 72 - britain grants independence to belize.
1981/--/-- 72 - burt lancaster stars in louis malle's film atlantic city.
1981/--/-- 72 - dan rather replaces walter cronkite as anchorman for the cbs evening news.
1981/--/-- 72 - filmmaker steven spielberg directs raiders of the lost ark.
1981/--/-- 72 - francois mitterand succeeds valery giscard d'estaing as president of france.
1981/--/-- 72 - garret fitzgerald becomes prime minister of ireland.
1981/--/-- 72 - gen. jaruzelski declares martial law in poland; solidarity leaders are arrested.
1981/--/-- 72 - henry fonda, katharine hepburn and jane fonda star in the film on golden pond.
1981/--/-- 72 - hu yao-bang becomes head of the chinese communist party.
1981/--/-- 72 - indian-born author salman rushdie publishes midnight's children.
1981/--/-- 72 - jeane kirkpatrick becomes u.s. ambassador to the united nations.
1981/--/-- 72 - jerry rawlings leads a military coup in ghana.
1981/--/-- 72 - john hinckley, jr. shoots and seriously wounds president reagan.
1981/--/-- 72 - pope john paul ii is shot and wounded by a turkish gunman.
1981/--/-- 72 - reagan is inaugurated as the 40th u.s. president; bush becomes vice-president.
1981/--/-- 72 - ronald w. reagan (republican) becomes president of the united states
1981/--/-- 72 - sandra day o'connor is appointed the first woman u.s. supreme court justice.
1981/--/-- 72 - ten ira prisoners starve themselves to death as a political protest.
1981/--/-- 72 - the prince of wales marries lady diana spencer in britain.
1981/--/-- 72 - the u.s. hostages in iran are released.
1981/--/-- 72 - the first 24-hour music video channel mtv (music television) is launched in the u.s.
1981/--/-- 72 - the first space shuttle is launched, crewed by john young and robert crippen.
1981/01/02 72 - u.s. hostages held in iran are released after 444 days in captivity.
1981/03/30 72 - president reagan is shot in the chest by john hinckley, jr.
1981/04/16 72 *** moore, christopher shane [great nephew] - born to moore, james and allison, denise gale (moore)
1981/05/05 72 *** lafever, treva lucille (goodwin) [sister] - died cancer putnam county, tennessee
1981/09/25 72 - sandra day o'connor is sworn in as the first woman supreme court justice.
1981/09/27 72 *** forsyth, velma ruth (arthur) [great niece] - born to forsyth, donald brian and dilldine, carolyn june (forsyth)
1981/10/-- 72 - world series nl los angeles (4) al new york (2)
1982/--/-- 73 - alvaro alfredo magana becomes president of el salvador.
1982/--/-- 73 - american writer paul theroux publishes the mosquito coast.
1982/--/-- 73 - amin gemayel becomes the president of lebanon after his brother bashir is killed.
1982/--/-- 73 - argentina invades the falkland islands; britain and argentina are at war.
1982/--/-- 73 - black american writer alice walker publishes the color purple.
1982/--/-- 73 - british troops recapture the falkland islands from argentina.
1982/--/-- 73 - dustin hoffman stars in sydney pollack's film tootsie.
1982/--/-- 73 - felipe gonzalez marquez becomes prime minister of spain.
1982/--/-- 73 - filmmaker steven spielberg directs e.t. the extra-terrestrial.
1982/--/-- 73 - gen. hussain muhammad ershad seizes control of bangladesh in a bloodless coup.
1982/--/-- 73 - javier perez de cuellar succeeds kurt waldheim as secretary-general of the un.
1982/--/-- 73 - pop singer michael jackson records the all-time best-selling album thriller.
1982/--/-- 73 - soul composer quincy jones wins 5 grammy awards.
1982/--/-- 73 - princess grace of monaco dies in a car accident.
1982/--/-- 73 - richard attenborough directs the academy award winning film gandhi.
1982/--/-- 73 - soviet leader leonid brezhnev dies; he is succeeded by yuri andropov.
1982/--/-- 73 - sylvester stallone stars in the first rambo film first blood.
1982/--/-- 73 - the equal rights amendment (era) fails to win ratification in the u.s.
1982/--/-- 73 - the israeli army invades the lebanon and drives the plo guerrillas out of beirut.
1982/--/-- 73 - the un maintains a peace between christian and muslim militia in lebanon.
1982/--/-- 73 - the voyager 2 spacecraft transmits pictures to the u.s. of the planet saturn.
1982/--/-- 73 - two satellites are deployed during the first operational space shuttle mission.
1982/--/-- 73 - usa today, the first daily newspaper aimed at readers throughout the u.s., is launched.
1982/06/23 73 *** scheffer, sarah elizabeth - beth- (allison) & allison, donald wayne [nephew] - married saint thomas aquinas church, cookeville, tn
1982/06/30 73 - deadline for ratification of the equal rights amendment to the constitution passes without the necessary votes.
1982/10/-- 73 - world series nl st. louis (4) al milwaukee (3)
1983/--/-- 74 - american runner joan benoit sets a world record in the boston marathon.
1983/--/-- 74 - american writer william kennedy publishes ironweed.
1983/--/-- 74 - american zoologist dian fossey publishes her book gorillas in the mist.
1983/--/-- 74 - an epa report projects the irreversible onset of the greenhouse effect.
1983/--/-- 74 - an infrared astronomical satellite is launched to probe deep into the milky way.
1983/--/-- 74 - australia ii becomes the first non-american yacht to win the america's cup.
1983/--/-- 74 - benedetto bettino craxi becomes the socialist prime minister of italy.
1983/--/-- 74 - car bombs destroy the u.s. embassy and u.s. marine headquarters in beirut.
1983/--/-- 74 - civil war breaks out in sri lanka between the sinhalese and tamil separatists.
1983/--/-- 74 - ex-nazi klaus barbie (the butcher of lyon) is extradited from bolivia to france.
1983/--/-- 74 - guion stewart bluford, jr. becomes the first black american astronaut.
1983/--/-- 74 - libyan forces invade chad; french troops aid the chad government.
1983/--/-- 74 - manuel antonio noriega becomes commander of panama's defense forces.
1983/--/-- 74 - mario soares becomes the socialist prime minister of portugal.
1983/--/-- 74 - nigerian president shehu shagari is deposed in a military coup led by gen. buhari.
1983/--/-- 74 - opposition leader benigno aquino is assassinated in the philippines.
1983/--/-- 74 - president reagan proposes a space-based strategic defense initiative (sdi).
1983/--/-- 74 - raul alfonsin is elected as president of argentina, ending military rule.
1983/--/-- 74 - reagan proposes "star wars" and increases military funding
1983/--/-- 74 - sally k. ride becomes the first u.s. woman astronaut.
1983/--/-- 74 - shirley maclaine and jack nicholson star in the film terms of endearment.
1983/--/-- 74 - the labor party returns to power in australia; robert hawke becomes prime minister.
1983/--/-- 74 - the soviets shoot down a south korean airliner that violated its airspace.
1983/--/-- 74 - the compact disc is introduced for recorded music.
1983/--/-- 74 - u.s. forces invade grenada to protect u.s. lives after a military coup on the island.
1983/--/-- 74 - yitzhak shamir succeeds menachem begin as prime minister of israel.
1983/08/-- 74 *** bristow, christopher michael [great nephew] - entered kindergarten at albany elementary school
1983/10/-- 74 - world series nl philadelphia (1) al baltimore (4)
1983/10/16 74 *** allison, ryan patrick [great nephew] - born to allison, donald wayne and scheffer, sarah elizabeth - beth- (allison) cookeville, tn
1983/10/25 74 - u.s. invades caribbean island of grenada after a coup by marxist faction in the government.
1984/--/-- 75 - a toxic gas leak kills 2,000 and affects an estimated 150,000 in bhopal, india.
1984/--/-- 75 - american pop singer madonna releases her album like a virgin.
1984/--/-- 75 - american track athlete carl lewis wins four gold medals at the los angeles olympics.
1984/--/-- 75 - brian mulroney succeeds john turner as prime minister of canada.
1984/--/-- 75 - britain and china sign a treaty for the return of hong kong to china in 1997.
1984/--/-- 75 - britain grants independence to brunei.
1984/--/-- 75 - british prime minister margaret thatcher escapes injury in an ira bomb attack.
1984/--/-- 75 - comedian eddie murphy stars in the film beverly hills cop.
1984/--/-- 75 - congress forbids official u.s. aid for the anti-sandinista contras in nicaragua.
1984/--/-- 75 - czech writer milan kundera publishes the unbearable lightness of being.
1984/--/-- 75 - geraldine ferraro becomes the first woman vice-presidential candidate in the u.s.
1984/--/-- 75 - indian prime minister indira gandhi is assassinated by sikh extremists.
1984/--/-- 75 - indian troops attack the golden temple at amritsar to remove militant sikhs.
1984/--/-- 75 - rajiv gandhi becomes prime minister of india.
1984/--/-- 75 - rap music
1984/--/-- 75 - rev. desmond tutu, opponent of apartheid, is awarded the nobel peace prize.
1984/--/-- 75 - rock singer bob geldof organizes band aid to raise funds for african famine victims.
1984/--/-- 75 - sandinista leader daniel ortega saavedra is elected president of nicaragua.
1984/--/-- 75 - shimon peres succeeds yitzhak shamir as prime minister of israel.
1984/--/-- 75 - soviet leader yuri andropov dies; he is succeeded by konstantin chernenko.
1984/--/-- 75 - space shuttle astronauts test the manned maneuvering unit and move freely in space.
1984/08/-- 75 *** bristow, david jesse [great nephew] - began high school at clinton county high
1984/10/-- 75 - world series nl san diego (1) al detroit (4)
1985/--/-- 76 - albanian premier enver hoxha dies; he is succeeded by ramiz alia.
1985/--/-- 76 - american film actor rock hudson dies from aids.
1985/--/-- 76 - american humorist and radio personality garison keillor publishes lake wobegon days.
1985/--/-- 76 - american rock singer tina turner wins three grammy awards.
1985/--/-- 76 - baseball player pete rose beats ty cobb's 57-year-old record of 4,191 base hits.
1985/--/-- 76 - boxer michael spinks defeats larry holmes for the heavyweight championship.
1985/--/-- 76 - clint eastwood directs and stars in the western film pale rider.
1985/--/-- 76 - french agents sink the greenpeace ship rainbow warrior in new zealand.
1985/--/-- 76 - gorbachev unravels soviet system
1985/--/-- 76 - jose de sarney becomes the first civilian president of brazil in 21 years.
1985/--/-- 76 - julius nyerere is succeeded as president of tanzania by ali hassan mwinyi.
1985/--/-- 76 - maj.-gen. mohammed buhari is ousted in a bloodless coup in nigeria.
1985/--/-- 76 - mexico city is heavily damaged by an earthquake.
1985/--/-- 76 - middleweight champion marvin hagler defends his title against thomas "hit man" hearns.
1985/--/-- 76 - palestinian terrorists hijack the italian liner achille lauro.
1985/--/-- 76 - premier gorbachev initiates glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring).
1985/--/-- 76 - president milton obote is ousted in a military coup in uganda.
1985/--/-- 76 - president reagan and mikhail gorbachev hold their first summit meeting.
1985/--/-- 76 - president reagan is inaugurated for his second term of office.
1985/--/-- 76 - robert redford and meryl streep star in the film out of africa.
1985/--/-- 76 - running back walter payton sets an all-time nfl record for rushes of 14,860 yards.
1985/--/-- 76 - shiite muslim terrorists hijack a twa boeing 727 jet to beirut.
1985/--/-- 76 - soviet premier konstantin chernenko dies; he is succeeded by mikhail gorbachev.
1985/--/-- 76 - sudanese prime minister gaafar al-nimeiry is ousted in a military coup.
1985/--/-- 76 - the north american soccer league (nasl) suspends operations.
1985/--/-- 76 - world chess champion anatoly karpov is defeated by 21-year-old gary kasparov.
1985/01/21 76 - reagan's second inauguration.
1985/07/13 76 *** clark, henrietta christina & goodwin, david carroll [nephew] - married almyra united methodist church, sparta, tn
1985/10/-- 76 - world series nl st. louis (3) al kansas city (4)
1985/10/01 76 *** goff, martha ada (morris, jones) [aunt] - died baxter, putnam co. tn
1986/--/-- 77 *** welch, sherrie s. (uhlmann) [great niece] - ba university of colorado, boulder
1986/--/-- 77 - a hole in the ozone layer is detected over antarctica.
1986/--/-- 77 - a major nuclear-reactor disaster takes place at chernobyl in the soviet union.
1986/--/-- 77 - benazir bhutto, daughter of hanged premier ali bhutto, is jailed in pakistan.
1986/--/-- 77 - boxer mike tyson wins his first world heavyweight title.
1986/--/-- 77 - civil war breaks out in yemen (aden).
1986/--/-- 77 - comedian and filmmaker woody allen directs hannah and her sisters.
1986/--/-- 77 - corazon aquino is elected president of the philippines; ferdinand marcos is exiled.
1986/--/-- 77 - cyclist greg lemond becomes the first american to win the tour de france.
1986/--/-- 77 - czech tennis player ivan lendl wins the french open and u.s. open tournaments.
1986/--/-- 77 - filmmaker oliver stone directs the vietnam war film platoon.
1986/--/-- 77 - golfer jack nicklaus at age 46 becomes the oldest man ever to win the u.s. open.
1986/--/-- 77 - ice hockey player wayne gretzky raises the season point record to 215.
1986/--/-- 77 - nigerian poet and playwright wole soyinka wins the nobel prize for literature.
1986/--/-- 77 - president francois mitterrand appoints jacques chirac prime minister of france.
1986/--/-- 77 - president jean claude duvalier of haiti goes into exile.
1986/--/-- 77 - sayid mohammad najibullah replaces marxist president babrak karmal in afghanistan.
1986/--/-- 77 - select committees are established to investigate the iran-contra affair.
1986/--/-- 77 - singer-actress bette midler stars in down and out in beverly hills.
1986/--/-- 77 - swedish prime minister olof palme is assassinated.
1986/--/-- 77 - the european space agency's giotto spacecraft passes within 335 miles of halley's comet.
1986/--/-- 77 - the food and drug administration approve the commercial use of the drug interferon.
1986/--/-- 77 - the soviet union launches the first mir space station.
1986/--/-- 77 - the space shuttle challenger explodes after launch, killing the crew of seven.
1986/--/-- 77 - the ultralight voyager aircraft flies around the world nonstop in 9 days.
1986/--/-- 77 - u.s. aircraft attack military and terrorist related targets in libya.
1986/--/-- 77 - voyager 2 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet uranus.
1986/--/-- 77 - yitzak shamir succeeds shimon peres as prime minister of israel.
1986/01/28 77 - space shuttle challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. it is the worst accident in the history of the u.s. space program.
1986/04/14 77 - u.s. bombs military bases in libya in effort to deter terrorist strikes on american targets.
1986/10/-- 77 - world series nl new york (4) al boston (3)
1986/11/-- 77 - iran-contra scandal breaks when white house is forced to reveal secret arms-for-hostages deals.
1987/--/-- 78 - a wall street stock market crisis spreads to tokyo and london.
1987/--/-- 78 - american author tom wolfe publishes the satirical novel the bonfire of the vanities.
1987/--/-- 78 - basketball player kareem abdul-jabbar passes wilt chamberlain's points record.
1987/--/-- 78 - bettino craxi resigns; giovanni goria becomes prime minister of italy.
1987/--/-- 78 - colonel oliver north testifies at the iran-contra affair hearings.
1987/--/-- 78 - congress holds public hearings in iran-contra investigation.
1987/--/-- 78 - east german leader erich honecker makes his first visit to west germany.
1987/--/-- 78 - filmmaker brian de palma directs the untouchables.
1987/--/-- 78 - gary hart ends his presidential campaign after allegations of sexual impropriety.
1987/--/-- 78 - libya suffers a military defeat in chad.
1987/--/-- 78 - more than 400 die in clashes between iranian pilgrims and saudi police at mecca.
1987/--/-- 78 - ozone "hole" found over antartica
1987/--/-- 78 - takeshita noburu succeeds nakasone yasuhiro as the japanese premier.
1987/--/-- 78 - the u.s. frigate stark is hit by an iraqi missile in the persian gulf.
1987/--/-- 78 - west bank palestinians launch an intifadah (uprising) against the israeli occupation.
1987/--/-- 78 - writer gore vidal publishes empire, a novel of 19th-century u.s. politics.
1987/02/11 78 *** davis, jennifer dawn [great niece] - born to goodwin, debra ann (davis)
1987/06/-- 78 *** bristow, david jesse [great nephew] - governor's scholar's program at centre college in danville, kentucky
1987/06/12 78 - in a speech in berlin, president reagan challenges soviet leader mikhail gorbachev to "tear down this wall" and open eastern europe to political and
economic reform.
1987/06/20 78 *** steele, gary & bristow, karen sue (steele) [niece] - married
1987/09/-- 78 *** lafever, nora linnie (bristow) [sister] - hospitalized for bed sores and spent the rest of her life in nursing homes
1987/10/-- 78 - world series nl st. louis (3) al minnesota (4)
1987/12/08 79 - reagan and gorbachev sign inf treaty, the first arms-control agreement to reduce the superpowers' nuclear weapons.
1988/--/-- 79 - a cease-fire is declared in the war between iran and iraq.
1988/--/-- 79 - armenia is hit by a severe earthquake, killing tens of thousands.
1988/--/-- 79 - australia celebrates its bicentennial.
1988/--/-- 79 - austrian president kurt waldheim is exonerated of involvement in war crimes.
1988/--/-- 79 - benazir bhutto is elected prime minister of pakistan.
1988/--/-- 79 - carlos salinas de gortari is elected president of mexico.
1988/--/-- 79 - colombian writer gabriel garcia marquez publishes love in the time of cholera.
1988/--/-- 79 - dennis connor skippers a u.s. catamaran to beat new zealand in the america's cup.
1988/--/-- 79 - details of the u.s. stealth bomber are released for the first time.
1988/--/-- 79 - discovery becomes the first space shuttle to be launched after the challenger disaster.
1988/--/-- 79 - dustin hoffman stars in the academy award winning film rain man.
1988/--/-- 79 - egyptian writer naguib mahfouz wins the nobel prize for literature.
1988/--/-- 79 - german tennis player boris becker leads west germany to victory in the davis cup.
1988/--/-- 79 - german tennis player steffi graf becomes the 3rd woman to win the grand slam.
1988/--/-- 79 - hungarian leader janos kadar is removed from power; karoly grosz assumes his post.
1988/--/-- 79 - indian-born writer salman rushdie publishes the satanic verses.
1988/--/-- 79 - jesse jackson fails in a second attempt to win the democratic presidential nomination.
1988/--/-- 79 - lee teng-hui succeeds chiang ching-kuo as president of taiwan.
1988/--/-- 79 - military leaders seize control in haiti after elections are held.
1988/--/-- 79 - military leaders seize power in burma (myanmar).
1988/--/-- 79 - nationalist uprisings breakout in the soviet republic of armenia.
1988/--/-- 79 - pakistani leader gen. muhammed zia ul-haq is killed in a plane crash.
1988/--/-- 79 - roh tae woo succeeds chun doo hwan as president of south korea.
1988/--/-- 79 - south african leader nelson mandela is removed from prison for hospital treatment.
1988/--/-- 79 - sprinter ben johnson is stripped of his olympic gold medal after a drug test.
1988/--/-- 79 - steven spielberg produces the innovative animated film who framed roger rabbit.
1988/--/-- 79 - television evangelist jim bakker is convicted of fraud and conspiracy.
1988/--/-- 79 - the geneva accords set the timetable for soviet withdrawal from afghanistan.
1988/--/-- 79 - the iraqis are accused of using chemical weapons against the kurds.
1988/--/-- 79 - the u.s. cruiser vincennes accidentally shoots downs an iranian airliner.
1988/--/-- 79 - the u.s. indict panamanian dictator gen. manuel antonio noriega for drug offenses.
1988/--/-- 79 - vietnam announces it will withdraw all its forces from kampuchea.
1988/04/30 79 *** lafever, nora linnie (bristow) [sister] - admitted to master's health care center in algood, tn where she spent the rest of her life making latch hooks.
1988/05/-- 79 *** bristow, david jesse [great nephew] - graduated clinton county high school
1988/09/-- 79 *** bristow, david jesse [great nephew] - began college at centre college in danville, kentucky
1988/10/-- 79 - world series nl los angeles (4) al oakland (1)
1988/12/31 80 *** uhlmann, stephen g. & welch, sherrie s. (uhlmann) [great niece] - married sacred heart, louisville, colorado
1989/--/-- 80 - akihito succeeds his father hirohito as emperor of japan.
1989/--/-- 80 - allegations of financial impropriety force japanese premier noboru to resign.
1989/--/-- 80 - american anne tyler wins the pulitzer prize for her novel breathing lessons.
1989/--/-- 80 - ayatollah khomeini dies in iran; ali akbar hashemi rafsanjani becomes president.
1989/--/-- 80 - british author v.s. pritchett publishes a careless widow and other stories.
1989/--/-- 80 - bulgarian premier todor zhivkov resigns; he is succeeded by petar mladenov.
1989/--/-- 80 - bush is inaugurated as the 41st u.s. president; quayle becomes vice-president.
1989/--/-- 80 - carlos saul menem succeeds raul alfonsin as president of argentina.
1989/--/-- 80 - demonstrations in east germany lead to the demolition of the berlin wall.
1989/--/-- 80 - f. w. de klerk succeeds p.w. botha as president of south africa.
1989/--/-- 80 - gen. alfredo stroessner is ousted; andres rodriguez becomes president of paraguay.
1989/--/-- 80 - george h. w. bush (republican) becomes president of the united states
1989/--/-- 80 - greek prime minister andreas papandreou is succeeded by tzinnis tzannetakis.
1989/--/-- 80 - hu yao-pang's death in china sparks public rallies demanding social changes.
1989/--/-- 80 - hundreds of demonstrators are killed by troops in peking's t'ien-an-men square.
1989/--/-- 80 - hungary elects to become a multiparty democracy.
1989/--/-- 80 - jack nicholson and michael keaton star in the film batman.
1989/--/-- 80 - libyan leader muammar al-qaddafi signs a peace treaty with chad.
1989/--/-- 80 - playwright vaclav havel becomes the president of czechoslovakia.
1989/--/-- 80 - romanian president nicolae ceausescu is deposed and killed.
1989/--/-- 80 - san francisco's marina district is damaged by a severe earthquake.
1989/--/-- 80 - solidarity candidates win a majority in the first free elections in poland since 1946.
1989/--/-- 80 - soviet forces complete their withdrawal from afghanistan; the civil war continues.
1989/--/-- 80 - the burmese government changes the country's name to myanmar.
1989/--/-- 80 - the satanic verses is condemned by muslims; salman rushdie goes into hiding.
1989/--/-- 80 - the communist government of milos jakes resigns in czechoslovakia.
1989/--/-- 80 - u.s. forces invade panama; general noriega surrenders and is held on drug charges.
1989/--/-- 80 - u.s.s.r dissolves into republics; cold war over
1989/--/-- 80 - v.p. singh succeeds rajiv gandhi as prime minister of india.
1989/--/-- 80 - voyager 2 spacecraft tramsmits pictures to the u.s. of the planet neptune.
1989/--/-- 80 - world cable markets deregulated; hollywood gains world film market
1989/01/20 80 - george h. w. bush is inaugurated as the 41st president.
1989/03/24 80 - oil tanker exxon valdez runs aground in prince william sound, spilling more than 10 million gallons of oil (march 24). it is the largest oil spill in u.s.
history.
1989/06/-- 80 *** bristow, david jesse [great nephew] - spent 8 weeks in army basic training at fort knox.
1989/07/25 80 *** goff, albert owen [2nd cousin] - died nashville, davidson county tn goff cemetery, dekalb county tennessee
1989/07/26 80 *** goff, mary ida (dilldine) [aunt] - died masters nursing home, algood tn pleasant view cem. putnam county tn
1989/08/06 80 *** lafever, myrtle elvira (love) - died woodbury, tn goff cemetery, dekalb county tennessee
the life of lafever, myrtle elvira (love)
(continued) ...date... age event
 1989/08/09 80 - president bush signs legislation to provide for federal bailout of nearly 800 insolvent savings and loan institutions.
1989/10/-- 80 - world series nl san francisco (0) al oakland (4)
1989/12/20 81 - u.s. forces invade panama in an attempt to capture gen. manuel noriega, who previously had been indicted in the u.s. on drug trafficking charges. 

in 1908 transportation was by:
          foot
          horse
          bicycle
          train
          steamboat
          balloon
by 1989 transportation was by:
          car & bus
          diesel ship
          propeller airplane
          helicopter
          jet
          nuclear ship
          space travel
in addition.
by 1989 transportation by:
          horse
          steamboat
          balloon
had been discontinued.

in 1908 communications was by:
          word of mouth
          post office
          telegraph
          telephone
by 1989 communications was by:
          fax
          e-mail
in addition.
by 1989 communications by:
          telegraph
had been discontinued.

in 1908 food preparation was by:
          wood
by 1989 food preparation was by:
          gas
          electric
          refrigeration
          dish washer
          garbage disposal
in addition.
by 1989 food preparation by:
          wood
had been discontinued.

in 1908 entertainment was by:
          social intercourse
          organized sports
          travel
          professional sports
          movies
          radio
          television
          theme parks
          computer

in 1908 health care was by:
          operations
          anesthetic
          x-rays
          mri

in 1908 war making was by:
          calvary
          gun
          artillery
          machine guns
          submarine
          iron clad ships
          tnt
          mines
by 1989 war making was by:
          assault rifle
          tank
          chemical agents
          biological agents
          aeroplane
          helicopter
          missiles
          atomic bomb
          satellites
in addition.
by 1989 war making by:
          calvary
had been discontinued.

in 1908 navigation was by:
          stars & maps
          compass
by 1989 navigation was by:
          radio signals
          radar
in addition.

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