...Date... AGE Event
1917/--/-- -1 *** Sherrell, William Jordan & Lafever, Mary Canzada [1st cousin] - Married
1917/--/-- -1 - Adoption of the convoy system reduces Allied losses to German submarines.
1917/--/-- -1 - Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
1917/--/-- -1 - Art critic and writer Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term surrealism.
1917/--/-- -1 - Astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild develops the black hole theory.
1917/--/-- -1 - Blacks migrate north and west
1917/--/-- -1 - British forces attack the Germans in the Third Battle of Ypres.
1917/--/-- -1 - British forces under Allenby capture Jerusalem and Bagdhad from the Turks.
1917/--/-- -1 - Dutch artists Theo Van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian found the magazine de Stijl.
1917/--/-- -1 - English composer Gustav Holst completes The Planets.
1917/--/-- -1 - English humorist P.G. Wodehouse creates Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves.
1917/--/-- -1 - Germany announces the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917/--/-- -1 - Italian forces are defeated by Austria at the Battle of Caporetto.
1917/--/-- -1 - Russian revolutions: communist U.S.S.R. formed
1917/--/-- -1 - Selective Service Act creates draft
1917/--/-- -1 - Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung publishes The Psychology of the Unconscious.
1917/--/-- -1 - T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) leads the Arab revolt against the Turks.
1917/--/-- -1 - The Balfour Declaration endorses a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
1917/--/-- -1 - The Germans and the Bolshevik leaders sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk.
1917/--/-- -1 - The Germans help Lenin return to Russia from exile in Switzerland.
1917/--/-- -1 - The Jones Act gives all Puerto Ricans the right to U.S. citizenship.
1917/--/-- -1 - The Russian Revolution begins; Emperor Nicholas II abdicates.
1917/--/-- -1 - The U.S. purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
1917/--/-- -1 - The United States declares war on Germany.
1917/--/-- -1 - The Zimmermann note proposing a secret Mexican alliance with Germany is revealed.
1917/--/-- -1 - The disastrous Nivelle Offensive leads to mutinies in the French Army.
1917/--/-- -1 - The earliest jazz recordings are made in New York City.
1917/--/-- -1 - The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for journalism, letters and music.
1917/--/-- -1 - The provisional Kerensky government is deposed; Bolsheviks seize power in Russia.
1917/06/29 0 *** Lafever, Lonnie Oscar - Born to Lafever, Luke Gilliam and Goff, America Alice (Lafever)
1917/10/-- 0 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL CHICAGO (4)
1918/--/-- 0 - Advances by French, British and American armies force a general German retreat.
1918/--/-- 0 - American astronomer Harlow Shapley discovers the dimensions of the Milky Way.
1918/--/-- 0 - American author Booth Tarkington writes The Magnificent Ambersons.
1918/--/-- 0 - American forcesunder Pershing help to stem the German offensive.
1918/--/-- 0 - An airmail service begins among New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
1918/--/-- 0 - An influenza pandemic begins (it kills 21-22 million in 2 years).
1918/--/-- 0 - Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia become republics in the aftermath of World War I.
1918/--/-- 0 - Bloomsbury Group member Lytton Strachey publishes Eminent Victorians.
1918/--/-- 0 - Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky organizes the Red Army.
1918/--/-- 0 - Civil war breaks out between the Red and White Russian armies.
1918/--/-- 0 - French composer Erik Satie writes Socrate.
1918/--/-- 0 - German air ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) is shot down and killed.
1918/--/-- 0 - Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks.
1918/--/-- 0 - Revolution breaks out in Germany; Emperor William II flees to the Netherlands.
1918/--/-- 0 - Shapley determines sun is part of Milky Way galaxy
1918/--/-- 0 - The Germans renew their assault on the Western Front in the Ludendorff Offensive.
1918/--/-- 0 - The Weimar Republic negotiates an armistice for Germany, ending World War I.
1918/--/-- 0 - The world's largest telescope is installed at Mount Wilson Observatory.
1918/--/-- 0 - Women over 30 win the vote in Britain.
1918/10/-- 1 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL BOSTON (4)
1918/11/11 1 *** Goff, Bethel Ralph [2nd cousin] - Born to Goff, Charlie Clay and Lafever, Ella Odell (Goff) Silver Point, Dekalb county TN
1919/--/-- 1 - Boxer Jack Dempsey knocks out Jess Willard to become heavyweight champion.
1919/--/-- 1 - British troops massacre demonstrators at Amritsar in India.
1919/--/-- 1 - English aviators Alcock and Brown make the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1919/--/-- 1 - French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen wins the Wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1919/--/-- 1 - George Gershwin composes his first hit song Swanee.
1919/--/-- 1 - German communist Rosa Luxemburg is murdered after the Sparticus uprising.
1919/--/-- 1 - Italian leader Benito Mussolini organizes his Fascist movement.
1919/--/-- 1 - Jan Smuts succeeds Louis Botha as prime minister of South Africa.
1919/--/-- 1 - Lady Astor becomes the first woman member of the British House of Commons.
1919/--/-- 1 - League of Nations
1919/--/-- 1 - Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata is killed.
1919/--/-- 1 - Russian-American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to the Soviet Union.
1919/--/-- 1 - The Bauhaus school of design is founded in Germany by Walter Gropius.
1919/--/-- 1 - The Chicago White Sox conspire to fix the baseball World Series.
1919/--/-- 1 - The German fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
1919/--/-- 1 - The League of Nations is formed with Geneva in Switzerland as its headquarters.
1919/--/-- 1 - The Paris Peace Conference opens at Versailles.
1919/--/-- 1 - The Polish-Soviet War begins over territorial disputes.
1919/--/-- 1 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is formed.
1919/--/-- 1 - Versailles Peace Treaty
1919/--/-- 1 - World War I ends
1919/10/-- 2 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (5) AL CHICAGO (3)
1919/11/24 2 *** Lafever, Beecher Franklin [Brother] - Born to Lafever, Luke Gilliam and Goff, America Alice (Lafever)
1920/--/-- 2 - 18th Amendment prohibits alcohol
1920/--/-- 2 - 19th Amendment gives women right to vote
1920/--/-- 2 - A Home Rule Bill establishes parliaments for northern and southern Ireland.
1920/--/-- 2 - Admiral Miklos Horthy is appointed regent of Hungary.
1920/--/-- 2 - Adolf Hitler forms the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) party.
1920/--/-- 2 - American novelist Sinclair Lewis publishes Main Street.
1920/--/-- 2 - American tennis star Bill Tilden wins the Wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1920/--/-- 2 - Arturo Alessandri becomes president of Chile.
1920/--/-- 2 - British East Africa becomes a crown colony as Kenya.
1920/--/-- 2 - Chaim Weizmann is named president of the World Zionist Organization.
1920/--/-- 2 - Dutch artist Piet Mondrian paints the Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue.
1920/--/-- 2 - French Art Deco glassmaker Rene Lalique opens a glass factory.
1920/--/-- 2 - German East Africa is transferred to British control as Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
1920/--/-- 2 - Mahatma Gandhi begins a noncooperation campaign against British rule in India.
1920/--/-- 2 - Mexican president Venustiano Carranza is deposed and killed by Alvaro Obregon.
1920/--/-- 2 - Mystery writer Agatha Christie publishes her first Hercule Poirot story.
1920/--/-- 2 - Russian artist Aleksandr Rodchenko designs the first mobile.
1920/--/-- 2 - The 18th Amendment institutes the prohibition of alcohol throughout the U.S.
1920/--/-- 2 - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920/--/-- 2 - The Russian Civil War ends with victory for the Bolsheviks.
1920/--/-- 2 - The U.S. Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1920/08/09 3 *** Goff, Nodie Mae [2nd cousin] - Born to Goff, Charlie Clay and Lafever, Ella Odell (Goff) Silver Point, Dekalb county TN
1920/10/-- 3 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (2) AL CLEVELAND (5)
1921/--/-- 3 - Alexander rules the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1921/--/-- 3 - American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are found guilty of murder.
1921/--/-- 3 - Berber tribes under Abd el-Krim attack garrisons in Spanish Morocco.
1921/--/-- 3 - French cubist artist Fernand Leger paints Three Women.
1921/--/-- 3 - German surrealist artist Max Ernst paints L'Elephant celebes.
1921/--/-- 3 - Harding is inaugurated as the 29th U.S. president; Coolidge becomes vice-president.
1921/--/-- 3 - Japanese premier Hara Takashi is assassinated.
1921/--/-- 3 - Latin lover Rudolph Valentino stars in the silent film The Sheik.
1921/--/-- 3 - Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author is produced.
1921/--/-- 3 - Mexican artist Diego Rivera begins painting murals depicting contemporary Mexican life.
1921/--/-- 3 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is created by Royal Charter.
1921/--/-- 3 - The Irish Free State becomes a self-governing dominion of Britain.
1921/--/-- 3 - The Reparations Commission fixes Germany's liability at 132 billion gold marks.
1921/--/-- 3 - W. L. MacKenzie King is elected prime minister of Canada for the first time.
1921/--/-- 3 - Warren G. Harding (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1921/10/-- 4 - World Series NL NEW YORK (5) AL NEW YORK (3)
1922/--/-- 4 - Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot writes The Waste Land.
1922/--/-- 4 - Constantine I abdicates as king of Greece; is succeeded by George II.
1922/--/-- 4 - DeWitt Wallace launches Reader's Digest magazine.
1922/--/-- 4 - Egypt achieves independence from Britain and becomes a monarchy under Fuad I.
1922/--/-- 4 - Emily Post publishes Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home.
1922/--/-- 4 - English Egyptologist Howard Carter excavates Tutankhamen's tomb.
1922/--/-- 4 - English composer William Walton composes Facade.
1922/--/-- 4 - Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first fossil dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.
1922/--/-- 4 - Irish poet and novelist James Joyce publishes Ulysses.
1922/--/-- 4 - Irish revolutionary statesman Michael Collins is assassinated.
1922/--/-- 4 - Kemal Ataturk's attempts to restore Turkish territory leads to the Chanak Crisis.
1922/--/-- 4 - Mahatma Gandhi is imprisoned for civil disobedience in India.
1922/--/-- 4 - Robert Flaherty produces the first major film documentary Nanook of the North.
1922/--/-- 4 - The Fascists march on Rome; King Victor Emmanuel III names Mussolini prime minister.
1922/--/-- 4 - William T. Cosgrave becomes the first prime minister of the Irish Free State.
1922/03/14 4 *** Lafever, Lena Dora (Sweet) [Sister] - Born to Lafever, Luke Gilliam and Goff, America Alice (Lafever)
1922/03/14 4 *** Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow) [Sister] - Born to Lafever, Luke Gilliam and Goff, America Alice (Lafever) Baxter, Tennessee
1922/10/-- 5 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL NEW YORK (0)
1923/--/-- 5 - "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band is the first black band to be recorded.
1923/--/-- 5 - Adolf Hitler's coup d'etat in Munich fails; he is captured and imprisoned.
1923/--/-- 5 - Aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt opens a factory in Germany.
1923/--/-- 5 - American poet E. E. Cummings writes the novel The Enormous Room.
1923/--/-- 5 - Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce found the weekly newsmagazine Time.
1923/--/-- 5 - Calvin Coolidge (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1923/--/-- 5 - Child violinist Yehudi Menuhin makes his public debut at age 7.
1923/--/-- 5 - Filmmaker Cecil B. De Mille directs the biblical epic The Ten Commandments.
1923/--/-- 5 - French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr to enforce German war reparations.
1923/--/-- 5 - General Miguel Primo de Rivera rules as dictator of Spain.
1923/--/-- 5 - Irish poet William Butler Yeats wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1923/--/-- 5 - Italy becomes first fascist state
1923/--/-- 5 - Jewish philosopher Martin Buber publishes Ich und Du (I and Thou).
1923/--/-- 5 - Physicist Hermann Oberth publishes The Rocket into Planetary Space.
1923/--/-- 5 - Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva invents the autogiro.
1923/--/-- 5 - Stanley Baldwin becomes Conservative prime minister of Britain for the first time.
1923/--/-- 5 - The Treaty of Lausanne establishes the boundaries of modern Turkey.
1923/--/-- 5 - Tokyo and Yokohama are destroyed by an earthquake; 100,000 are killed.
1923/--/-- 5 - Turkey is declared a republic; Ataturk Kemal becomes the first president.
1923/--/-- 5 - Vladimir Zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube.
1923/--/-- 5 - Warren G. Harding dies; Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th U.S. president.
1923/02/13 5 *** Goff, Elizabeth Jewell (Williams) [2nd cousin] - Born to Goff, Charlie Clay and Lafever, Ella Odell (Goff) Dekalb County Tennessee
1923/10/-- 6 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1924/--/-- 6 - Adolf Hitler publishes his Nazi political tract Mein Kampf (My Battle).
1924/--/-- 6 - Arab leader Ibn Saud drives the Hashimites from Mecca.
1924/--/-- 6 - English novelist E.M. Forster publishes A Passage To India.
1924/--/-- 6 - French physicist Louis de Broglie proposes the wavelength nature of particles.
1924/--/-- 6 - German novelist Thomas Mann publishes The Magic Mountain.
1924/--/-- 6 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation (renamed the FBI).
1924/--/-- 6 - Ramsay MacDonald forms the first Labour government in Britain.
1924/--/-- 6 - Schrodinger proposes wave mechanics
1924/--/-- 6 - Soviet leader Lenin dies; new leader Joseph Stalin begins a purge of his opponents.
1924/--/-- 6 - The Boston Bruins become the first professional ice hockey team.
1924/--/-- 6 - The military declare a republic in Greece; King George II is exiled.
1924/--/-- 6 - U.S. Congress investigates suspicious dealings in the Teapot Dome scandal.
1924/08/29 7 *** Lafever, Alice Lorene (Allison) [Sister] - Born to Lafever, Luke Gilliam and Goff, America Alice (Lafever)
1924/10/-- 7 - World Series NL NEW YORK (3) AL WASHINGTON (4)
1925/--/-- 7 - Ahmed Zogu proclaims Albania a monarchy and rules as King Zog.
1925/--/-- 7 - American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
1925/--/-- 7 - American writer John Dos Passos publishes Manhattan Transfer.
1925/--/-- 7 - Astronomer Edwin Hubble composes a classification scheme for galaxies.
1925/--/-- 7 - Automaker Walter P. Chrysler founds the Chrysler Corporation.
1925/--/-- 7 - Black American dancer Josephine Baker stars in La Revue negre in Paris.
1925/--/-- 7 - Clarence Birdseye begins marketing his quick-frozen food packages.
1925/--/-- 7 - Friedrich Ebert dies; Paul von Hindenburg becomes president of the German republic.
1925/--/-- 7 - John T. Scopes is tried in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution.
1925/--/-- 7 - Reza Shah Pahlavi rules as shah of Iran.
1925/--/-- 7 - Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein directs The Battleship Potemkin.
1925/--/-- 7 - Swiss-born artist Paul Klee paints Fish Magic.
1925/--/-- 7 - The Locarno Pact finalizes the treaties between the World War I protagonists.
1925/--/-- 7 - The New Yorker magazine is founded in New York City.
1925/--/-- 7 - The all-black revue Runnin' Wild introduces the Charleston dance craze.
1925/04/13 7 *** Goff, Ross [2nd cousin] - Born to Goff, Charlie Clay and Lafever, Ella Odell (Goff)
1925/04/14 7 *** Goff, Ross [2nd cousin] - Died
1925/10/-- 8 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL WASHINGTON (3)
1926/--/-- 8 - American artist Georgia O'Keeffe paints her flower portrait Black Iris.
1926/--/-- 8 - American golfer Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Open and the British Open tournaments.
1926/--/-- 8 - American physicist Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-propellant rocket.
1926/--/-- 8 - Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona becomes president after a military coup in Portugal.
1926/--/-- 8 - Chiang Kai-shek organizes the Northern Expedition to unite China.
1926/--/-- 8 - Eamon De Valera organizes the Fianna Fail party in the Republic of Ireland.
1926/--/-- 8 - English author A.A. Milne writes the children's book Winnie-the-Pooh.
1926/--/-- 8 - French troops in Morocco subdue a tribal rebellion led by Abd el-Krim.
1926/--/-- 8 - Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1926/--/-- 8 - Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.
1926/--/-- 8 - Nobile, Amundsen and Ellsworth pilot the airship Norge over the North Pole.
1926/--/-- 8 - Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett make the first airplane flight over the North Pole.
1926/--/-- 8 - Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich premiers his First Symphony.
1926/--/-- 8 - The General Strike breaks out in Britain involving 3 million workers.
1926/--/-- 8 - The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team is organized in Chicago.
1926/--/-- 8 - U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua to suppress a revolution (they depart in 1933).
1926/08/20 9 *** Goff, James William Clay [2nd cousin] - Born to Goff, Charlie Clay and Lafever, Ella Odell (Goff) Silver Point, Dekalb county TN
1926/10/-- 9 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1927/--/-- 9 - American dancer Isadora Duncan is killed in a tragic car accident.
1927/--/-- 9 - American writer Thornton Wilder publishes The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
1927/--/-- 9 - Baseball player Babe Ruth scores a record 60 home runs for the New York Yankees.
1927/--/-- 9 - Blackface singer Al Jolson appears in the first sound motion picture The Jazz Singer.
1927/--/-- 9 - Charles Lindbergh flies solo nonstop from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours.
1927/--/-- 9 - Civil war in China
1927/--/-- 9 - Comedy team Laurel and Hardy appear in their first film Putting Pants on Philip.
1927/--/-- 9 - Dancer Martha Graham opens her first dance studio in New York City.
1927/--/-- 9 - Duke Ellington's jazz band stars at Harlem's Cotton Club in New York City.
1927/--/-- 9 - English novelist Virginia Woolf writes To The Lighthouse.
1927/--/-- 9 - Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designs the Turun Sanomat newspaper building.
1927/--/-- 9 - Georges Lemaitre proposes an expanding model for the creation of the universe.
1927/--/-- 9 - German filmmaker Fritz Lang directs the futuristic film Metropolis.
1927/--/-- 9 - German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse publishes Steppenwolf.
1927/--/-- 9 - Helen Newington Wills wins the Wimbledon tennis championship.
1927/--/-- 9 - Lindbergh crosses Atlantic non-stop
1927/--/-- 9 - The Iron Guard fascist organization is founded in Romania.
1927/05/01 9 *** Lafever, Myrtle Elvira (Love) [Sister] & Love, James Hosie - Married
1927/07/20 10 *** Lafever, Kenneth Edward [Brother] - Born to Lafever, Luke Gilliam and Goff, America Alice (Lafever)
1927/08/31 10 *** Lafever, James Monroe [Uncle] - Died Pleasant View Cem. Putnam county TN
1927/10/-- 10 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1928/--/-- 10 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
1928/--/-- 10 - American anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa.
1928/--/-- 10 - American comedy team Amos 'n' Andy produce their first radio show.
1928/--/-- 10 - American composer Virgil Thomson writes the opera Four Saints in Three Acts.
1928/--/-- 10 - Arturo Toscanini is made conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
1928/--/-- 10 - Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's play The Front Page is produced.
1928/--/-- 10 - Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill collaborate on the play The Threepenny Opera.
1928/--/-- 10 - British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
1928/--/-- 10 - Chiang Kai-shek captures Peking; the Kuomintang government is established.
1928/--/-- 10 - English novelist Evelyn Waugh publishes Decline and Fall.
1928/--/-- 10 - English physicist Paul Dirac formulates a mathematical description of elementary particles.
1928/--/-- 10 - French composer Maurice Ravel composes the ballet Bolero.
1928/--/-- 10 - Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
1928/--/-- 10 - Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborate on the surrealist film Un Chien andalou.
1928/--/-- 10 - Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca publishes Gypsy Ballads.
1928/--/-- 10 - The Chaco War breaks out between Bolivia and Paraguay over territorial disputes.
1928/--/-- 10 - The Kellog-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by 15 nations.
1928/--/-- 10 - The first Five-Year Plan for economic reform begins in the Soviet Union.
1928/--/-- 10 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the first sound cartoon.
1928/04/19 10 *** Goff, Ida Helen [2nd cousin] - Born to Goff, Charlie Clay and Lafever, Ella Odell (Goff) Silver Point, Dekalb county TN
1928/10/-- 11 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1929/--/-- 11 - Alexander institutes absolute rule as king of Yugoslavia.
1929/--/-- 11 - American explorer Richard E. Byrd flies over the South Pole.
1929/--/-- 11 - American novelist William Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury.
1929/--/-- 11 - British poet Robert Graves publishes his war memoir Goodbye To All That.
1929/--/-- 11 - Erich Maria Remarque publishes his war novel All Quiet On the Western Front.
1929/--/-- 11 - Ernest Hemingway writes the war novel A Farewell To Arms.
1929/--/-- 11 - French artist and writer Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants Terribles.
1929/--/-- 11 - Heinrich Himmler is appointed head of the SS, Hitler's blackshirted elite guard.
1929/--/-- 11 - Herbert C. Hoover (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1929/--/-- 11 - Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st U.S. president; Curtis becomes vice-president.
1929/--/-- 11 - Jews and Arabs clash at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
1929/--/-- 11 - Seven Chicago gangsters are machine-gunned in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
1929/--/-- 11 - Soviet leader Joseph Stalin exiles Leon Trotsky.
1929/--/-- 11 - Stock Market crashes
1929/--/-- 11 - The Lateran Treaty creates the independent state of the Vatican City.
1929/--/-- 11 - The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) is founded in New York City.
1929/--/-- 11 - The Wall Street crash leads to a world-wide economic depression.
1929/--/-- 11 - The Workers Party of America is renamed the Communist Party of the United States.
1929/--/-- 11 - The first Academy Awards are presented; Wings wins best-picture prize.
1929/09/13 12 *** Lafever, Treva Lucille (Goodwin) [Sister] - Born to Lafever, Luke Gilliam and Goff, America Alice (Lafever)
1929/10/-- 12 - World Series NL CHICAGO (1) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1930/--/-- 12 - American artist Edward Hopper paints Early Sunday Morning.
1930/--/-- 12 - American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discovers the planet Pluto.
1930/--/-- 12 - American poet Hart Crane publishes The Bridge.
1930/--/-- 12 - Artist Grant Wood paints American Gothic.
1930/--/-- 12 - British engineer Frank Whittle patents a gas turbine engine for jet aircraft.
1930/--/-- 12 - Carol II is proclaimed king of Romania.
1930/--/-- 12 - Dashiell Hammett publishes the detective novel The Maltese Falcon.
1930/--/-- 12 - English-born American writer W. H. Auden publishes his Poems.
1930/--/-- 12 - Getulio Vargas is appointed president of Brazil after a military coup.
1930/--/-- 12 - Haile Selassie is declared emperor of Ethiopia.
1930/--/-- 12 - Marlene Dietrich stars in Josef von Sternberg's film The Blue Angel.
1930/--/-- 12 - Noel Coward's play Private Lives is produced in London.
1930/--/-- 12 - The British airship R101 crashes in France.
1930/--/-- 12 - The city of Constantinople is re-named Istanbul.
1930/--/-- 12 - Vannevar Bush develops a differential analyzer, an early type of analog computer.
1930/--/-- 12 - Worldwide depression begins
1930/01/15 12 *** Goff, Albert Owen [2nd cousin] - Born to Goff, Charlie Clay and Lafever, Ella Odell (Goff) Silver Point, Dekalb county TN
1930/10/-- 13 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (2) AL PHILADELPHIA (4)
1931/--/-- 13 - American cartoonist Chester Gould creates the adventure comic strip Dick Tracy.
1931/--/-- 13 - American journalist and writer Damon Runyon publishes Guys and Dolls.
1931/--/-- 13 - American writer Pearl Buck publishes The Good Earth.
1931/--/-- 13 - Auguste Piccard makes the first manned balloon flight into the stratosphere.
1931/--/-- 13 - Ben Shahn begins a series of paintings inspired by the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
1931/--/-- 13 - Chicago gangster Al Capone is jailed for income tax evasion.
1931/--/-- 13 - Explorer George Hubert Wilkins makes a submarine voyage under the Arctic ice.
1931/--/-- 13 - Japanese forces occupy Manchuria.
1931/--/-- 13 - Lawrence invents cyclotron
1931/--/-- 13 - Organic chemist W. H. Carothers invents nylon, the first successful synthetic fiber.
1931/--/-- 13 - Radio astronomy begins when Karl Jansky detects radio waves from space.
1931/--/-- 13 - Spain is declared a republic; King Alfonso XIII abdicates.
1931/--/-- 13 - The Empire State Building becomes the tallest building in the world.
1931/--/-- 13 - The Star-Spangled Banner becomes the U.S. national anthem.
1931/10/-- 14 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL PHILADELPHIA (3)
1932/--/-- 14 *** Lafever, Mary Canzada [1st cousin] - Died
1932/--/-- 14 - American physicist Carl D. Anderson discovers the positron.
1932/--/-- 14 - American sculptor Alexander Calder creates his first mobile.
1932/--/-- 14 - American southern author Erskine Caldwell publishes Tobacco Road.
1932/--/-- 14 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar assumes dictatorial powers as premier of Portugal.
1932/--/-- 14 - Arab leader Ibn Saud founds the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1932/--/-- 14 - British author Aldous Huxley publishes Brave New World.
1932/--/-- 14 - Charles Lindbergh's infant son is kidnapped.
1932/--/-- 14 - Eamon de Valera is elected president of the Republic of Ireland.
1932/--/-- 14 - Engelbert Dollfuss is elected chancellor of Austria.
1932/--/-- 14 - English physicist James Chadwick discovers the neutron.
1932/--/-- 14 - Presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt pledges a New Deal.
1932/--/-- 14 - Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City's Rockefeller Center.
1932/--/-- 14 - Revolution in Siam (Thailand) replaces the monarchy with a constitutional government.
1932/--/-- 14 - Sir Oswald Mosley founds the British Union of Fascists.
1932/--/-- 14 - The Bonus Army of war veterans is dispersed by troops in Washington, D.C.
1932/--/-- 14 - The Royal Shakespeare Theater opens at Stratford-on-Avon, England.
1932/--/-- 14 - The first particle accelerator is built at the Cavendish Laboratory in England.
1932/01/26 14 *** Goff, Joe Hughlee [2nd cousin] - Born to Goff, Charlie Clay and Lafever, Ella Odell (Goff)
1932/02/10 14 *** Love, Jimmie Goff [Nephew] - Born to Love, James Hosie and Lafever, Myrtle Elvira (Love)
1932/10/-- 15 - World Series NL CHICAGO (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1933/--/-- 15 - A fossilized skull of the prehistoric Steinheim man is found in Germany.
1933/--/-- 15 - Actor Charles Laughton stars in the film The Private Life of Henry VIII.
1933/--/-- 15 - Busby Berkeley choreographs the dances for the film Gold Diggers of 1933.
1933/--/-- 15 - Dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in the film Flying Down to Rio.
1933/--/-- 15 - Edwin Armstrong invents frequency modulation (FM) to eliminate radio static.
1933/--/-- 15 - Fiorello La Guardia is elected mayor of New York City for the first time.
1933/--/-- 15 - Frances Perkins becomes the first woman cabinet member in U.S. history.
1933/--/-- 15 - Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1933/--/-- 15 - French novelist and political activist Andre Malraux publishes Man's Fate.
1933/--/-- 15 - Fulgencio Batista leads a military coup against Gerardo Machado y Morales in Cuba.
1933/--/-- 15 - Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey found their first swing band.
1933/--/-- 15 - Joseph Goebbels is appointed as minister of propaganda for the Nazi party.
1933/--/-- 15 - Mae West stars in the films She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel.
1933/--/-- 15 - Norwegian fascist Vidkun Quisling founds the National Unity party.
1933/--/-- 15 - President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany.
1933/--/-- 15 - Roosevelt begins "New Deal"
1933/--/-- 15 - Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd U.S. president; Garner becomes vice-president.
1933/--/-- 15 - The 21st Amendment ends the prohibition era in the U.S.
1933/--/-- 15 - The Marx Brothers star in the classic comedy film Duck Soup.
1933/--/-- 15 - The National Recovery Administration (NRA) is launched by President Roosevelt.
1933/--/-- 15 - The Nazis erect the first concentration camps in Germany.
1933/--/-- 15 - The Public Works Administration (PWA) is formed to fund public construction projects.
1933/--/-- 15 - The Reichstag fire gives the Nazis a pretext for outlawing the German Communist party.
1933/--/-- 15 - The Stavisky affair causes a financial scandal in France.
1933/04/05 15 *** Lafever, Betty Cleo (Cass, McDonald) [Sister] - Born to Lafever, Luke Gilliam and Goff, America Alice (Lafever)
1933/04/06 15 *** Lafever, Jimmie Leo [Brother] - Born to Lafever, Luke Gilliam and Goff, America Alice (Lafever)
1933/06/21 15 *** Lafever, Jimmie Leo [Brother] - Died Boiling Springs, TN Oct. 1954
1933/10/-- 16 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL WASHINGTON (1)
1934/--/-- 16 - Adolf Hitler becomes "Fueher" of Germany
1934/--/-- 16 - Alexander, king of Yugoslavia, is assassinated; his son Peter II succeeds him.
1934/--/-- 16 - American cartoonist Al Capp begins the comic strip Li'l Abner.
1934/--/-- 16 - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is murdered by Austrian Nazis.
1934/--/-- 16 - Cole Porter writes the score for the Broadway musical Anything Goes.
1934/--/-- 16 - Drought leads to severe dust storms in the Dust Bowl region of the Great Plains.
1934/--/-- 16 - Elijah Muhammad becomes leader of the Nation of Islam (the Black Muslims).
1934/--/-- 16 - Fermi creates plutonium
1934/--/-- 16 - George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein found The School of American Ballet.
1934/--/-- 16 - Henry Miller publishes the Tropic of Cancer. (It is banned in the U.S. until 1961.)
1934/--/-- 16 - Hitler becomes Fuhrer (leader) of Germany after Hindenburg's death.
1934/--/-- 16 - John Dillinger, public enemy number one, is killed by the FBI.
1934/--/-- 16 - Lazaro Cardenas is chosen by Plutarco Calles as president of Mexico.
1934/--/-- 16 - Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour is produced.
1934/--/-- 16 - Mao Tse-tung leads the Chinese Communists on the Long March.
1934/--/-- 16 - Naturalist Charles W. Beebe makes a record dive of 3,028 ft in a bathyscaphe.
1934/--/-- 16 - SA leader Ernst Roehm is assassinated on the orders of Hitler.
1934/--/-- 16 - Surrealist artist Rene Magritte paints The Human Condition.
1934/--/-- 16 - The British ocean liner Queen Mary is launched.
1934/--/-- 16 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is formed to regulate broadcasting.
1934/--/-- 16 - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is formed to protect U.S. investors.
1934/01/16 16 *** Goff, Charlie Leon [2nd cousin] - Born to Goff, Charlie Clay and Lafever, Ella Odell (Goff) Silver Point, Dekalb County TN
1934/04/05 16 *** Lafever, Charlie Columbus [Brother] & Spears, Betty Ann (Lafever) - Married
1934/10/-- 17 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1935/--/-- 17 - American writer Thomas Wolfe publishes Of Time and the River.
1935/--/-- 17 - Arthur Dempster discovers U-235, the isotope of uranium used in atomic bombs.
1935/--/-- 17 - Child film actress Shirley Temple stars in The Little Colonel.
1935/--/-- 17 - Controversial Louisiana senator Huey P. Long is assassinated.
1935/--/-- 17 - Eduard Benes succeeds Tomas Masaryk as president of Czechoslovakia.
1935/--/-- 17 - Errol Flynn stars in the swashbuckling adventure film Captain Blood.
1935/--/-- 17 - Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock directs The 39 Steps.
1935/--/-- 17 - George Gershwin composes the modern American opera Porgy and Bess.
1935/--/-- 17 - Hitler announces German rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
1935/--/-- 17 - Italy invades Abyssinia (now Ethiopia).
1935/--/-- 17 - King of Swing Benny Goodman forms the Benny Goodman Trio.
1935/--/-- 17 - Leni Riefenstahl directs the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will.
1935/--/-- 17 - Physicist Hideki Yukawa predicts the existence of the meson subatomic particle.
1935/--/-- 17 - Robert Sherwood's play The Petrified Forest is produced.
1935/--/-- 17 - Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt patents the first practical radar system.
1935/--/-- 17 - Social Security Act provides retirement insurance
1935/--/-- 17 - Swedish film actress Greta Garbo stars in Anna Karenina.
1935/--/-- 17 - The Monopoly board game is patented in the U.S.
1935/--/-- 17 - The Moscow subway is opened.
1935/--/-- 17 - The Nuremberg Racial Laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship.
1935/--/-- 17 - The monarchy is restored in Greece under George II.
1935/05/12 17 *** Lafever, James E. [Nephew] - Born to Lafever, Charlie Columbus and Spears, Betty Ann (Lafever)
1935/07/04 18 *** Lafever, Asher [Grandfather] - Died Putnam county, TN - Pleasant View cem.
1935/10/-- 18 - World Series NL CHICAGO (2) AL DETROIT (4)
1935/11/12 18 *** Goff, Margaret Viola [2nd cousin] - Born to Goff, Charlie Clay and Lafever, Ella Odell (Goff) Silver Point, Dekalb county TN
1936/--/-- 18 - Black athlete Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games.
1936/--/-- 18 - Boulder Dam is completed in Arizona (it is renamed Hoover Dam in 1947).
1936/--/-- 18 - Edward VIII abdicates as king of Great Britain; he is succeeded by George VI.
1936/--/-- 18 - HItler and Mussolini announce the Rome-Berlin Axis (alliance).
1936/--/-- 18 - Henry R. Luce begins publishing Life magazine.
1936/--/-- 18 - Ioannis Metaxas establishes a dictatorship in Greece.
1936/--/-- 18 - Italy and Germany send military forces and aid to support Franco in Spain.
1936/--/-- 18 - Italy annexes Abyssinia (Ethiopia); Emperor Haile Selassie is exiled.
1936/--/-- 18 - Japan concludes the Anti-Comintern Pact with Germany.
1936/--/-- 18 - John Maynard Keynes writes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
1936/--/-- 18 - Margaret Mitchell publishes her only novel Gone With the Wind.
1936/--/-- 18 - Olympic ice skater Sonja Henie turns professional.
1936/--/-- 18 - Spanish Civil War
1936/--/-- 18 - Stalin begins the Great Purge of Soviet Russia's political and military leadership.
1936/--/-- 18 - The British Broadcasting Service (BBC) begins the first public television service.
1936/--/-- 18 - The Soviet Union and the International Brigades support the Nationalists in Spain.
1936/--/-- 18 - The Spanish Civil War begins when General Franco leads a military revolt.
1936/--/-- 18 - The works of the composer Dmitry Shostakovich are denounced in Russia.
1936/01/-- 18 - Edward VIII succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland.
1936/09/04 19 *** Dilldine, Amon & Lafever, Ruba Ada (Dilldine) [Sister] - Married
1936/10/-- 19 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1936/12/10 19 - George VI succeeds as King of Great Britain and Ireland upon the abdication of E
1937/--/-- 19 *** Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow) [Sister] - went to Richmond, Indiana and began working as a domestic servant.
1937/--/-- 19 - American author John Steinbeck publishes Of Mice and Men.
1937/--/-- 19 - Anastasio Somoza Garcia becomes president of Nicaragua.
1937/--/-- 19 - Aviatrix Amelia Earhart is lost during a flight across the Pacific.
1937/--/-- 19 - Ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn debuts in Giselle at Sadler's Wells, London.
1937/--/-- 19 - Danish author Isak Dinesen publishes her autobiography Out of Africa.
1937/--/-- 19 - Dow Chemical develops plastics
1937/--/-- 19 - English writer and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien publishes the fantasy novel The Hobbit.
1937/--/-- 19 - Farouk succeeds Fuad I as king of Egypt.
1937/--/-- 19 - Frank Lloyd Wright begins building the Taliesin West complex in Arizona.
1937/--/-- 19 - French filmmaker Jean Renoir directs Grand Illusion.
1937/--/-- 19 - German aircraft supporting Franco's forces destroy the town of Guernica in Spain.
1937/--/-- 19 - Joe Louis the Brown Bomber wins the heavyweight boxing championship.
1937/--/-- 19 - Nationalist and Communist forces unite to combat the Japanese in China.
1937/--/-- 19 - Neville Chamberlain succeeds Stanley Baldwin as prime minister of Britain.
1937/--/-- 19 - Swing bandleader Artie Shaw records Begin the Beguine.
1937/--/-- 19 - The Duke of Windsor (former King Edward VIII) marries the divorcee Mrs. Simpson.
1937/--/-- 19 - The German airship Hindenburg is destroyed by fire at Lakehurst, N.J.
1937/--/-- 19 - The Golden Gate Bridge is opened in San Francisco.
1937/--/-- 19 - The Japanese invasion of China begins the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1937/05/02 19 - George VI crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Cosm
1937/10/-- 20 - World Series NL NEW YORK (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1938/--/-- 20 - A coelacanth, a fish thought extinct for 65 million years, is caught off the cost of Africa.
1938/--/-- 20 - American composer Aaron Copland writes the ballet score for Billy the Kid.
1938/--/-- 20 - American singer Ella Fitzgerald records A-tisket, A-tasket.
1938/--/-- 20 - British prime minister Neville Chamberlain declares "peace for our time."
1938/--/-- 20 - Chamberlain and Daladier appease Hitler at the Munich Conference.
1938/--/-- 20 - Chester Carlson invents xerography, the first electrostatic dry-copying process.
1938/--/-- 20 - Don Budge becomes the first player to win the Grand Slam (4 tennis championships).
1938/--/-- 20 - General Franco isolates the Republican forces in Spain and attacks Catalonia.
1938/--/-- 20 - German chemist Otto Hahn discovers the principles of nuclear fission.
1938/--/-- 20 - Germany occupies the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia.
1938/--/-- 20 - Hitler invades Austria; a union (Anschluss) of Austria and Germany is proclaimed.
1938/--/-- 20 - Hungarian Lajos Biro invents the first practical ball-point pen.
1938/--/-- 20 - Ismet Inonu succeeds Kemal Atuturk as president of Turkey.
1938/--/-- 20 - Jewish property is attacked in Germany in the Kristallnacht (night of broken glass).
1938/--/-- 20 - Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud flees to England to escape Nazi persecution.
1938/--/-- 20 - Orson Welles' radio broadcast of War of the Worlds causes panic in the U.S.
1938/--/-- 20 - Swing musician Glenn Miller organizes his band.
1938/--/-- 20 - The House Committee on Un-American Activities investigates U.S. subversives.
1938/--/-- 20 - The U.S. and Britain send aid to the Chinese in their war against Japan.
1938/--/-- 20 - Thornton Wilder wins the Pulitzer Prize for his play Our Town.
1938/--/-- 20 - Walt Disney's feature-length cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is shown.
1938/01/17 20 *** Goff, James M. -Jimmy- [Grandfather] - Died Goff cem. Dekalb county TN
1938/10/-- 21 *** Stewart, Martha (Lafever) & Lafever, Herschel [Brother] - Married
1938/10/-- 21 - World Series NL CHICAGO (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1939/--/-- 21 - American author Nathanael West publishes The Day of the Locust.
1939/--/-- 21 - American novelist John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath.
1939/--/-- 21 - An Anglo-Saxon burial ship is excavated at Sutton Hoo in England.
1939/--/-- 21 - Britain and France declare war on Germany but are unable to aid Poland.
1939/--/-- 21 - Child film actress Judy Garland stars in the musical The Wizard of Oz.
1939/--/-- 21 - Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh star in the film Gone With the Wind.
1939/--/-- 21 - English author Christopher Isherwood publishes Goodbye to Berlin.
1939/--/-- 21 - Foreign ministers Ribbentrop and Molotov sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact of nonaggression.
1939/--/-- 21 - General Franco's forces capture Madrid, ending the Spanish Civil War.
1939/--/-- 21 - Germany and Italy form the Pact of Steel military alliance.
1939/--/-- 21 - Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II.
1939/--/-- 21 - Igor Sikorsky develops America's first successful helicopter.
1939/--/-- 21 - Italian forces occupy Albania; King Zog is forced into exile.
1939/--/-- 21 - Physical chemist Linus Pauling publishes The Nature of the Chemical Bond.
1939/--/-- 21 - President Roosevelt (prompted by Einstein) orders a U.S. effort to build an atomic bomb.
1939/--/-- 21 - President Roosevelt declares U.S. neutrality in World War II.
1939/--/-- 21 - Robert Gordon Menzies succeeds Joseph Lyons as prime minister of Australia.
1939/--/-- 21 - Soviet troops invade Poland; Germany and the USSR partition the country.
1939/--/-- 21 - Swiss chemist Paul Muller discovers the chemical insecticide DDT.
1939/--/-- 21 - The He 176, the first jet airplane, takes to the air in Germany.
1939/--/-- 21 - The Russo-Finnish War begins with the Soviet invasion of Finland.
1939/--/-- 21 - The first nylon stockings are marketed.
1939/--/-- 21 - World War II begins
1939/03/03 21 *** Elrod, Canzada (Lafever) [Grandmother] - Died Putnam County, TN - Pleasant View cem.
1939/10/-- 22 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1940/--/-- 22 - American novelist Carson McCullers publishes The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
1940/--/-- 22 - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour star in the film Road to Singapore.
1940/--/-- 22 - British air victory in the Battle of Britain prevents the German invasion of England.
1940/--/-- 22 - Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn star in the film The Philadelphia Story.
1940/--/-- 22 - Ernest Hemingway publishes For Whom the Bell Tolls.
1940/--/-- 22 - Exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico on Stalin's orders.
1940/--/-- 22 - General Charles de Gaulle rallies Free French resistance in London.
1940/--/-- 22 - German forces reach Paris; Vichy France under Marshal Petain signs an armistice.
1940/--/-- 22 - Germany invades Denmark and Norway; Allied forces aid Norway but are defeated.
1940/--/-- 22 - Italian forces invade Egypt but are repulsed; the British invade Libya.
1940/--/-- 22 - Italy declares war on the Allies and invades southern France.
1940/--/-- 22 - Japan joins the Axis alliance and occupies northern French Indochina (Vietnam).
1940/--/-- 22 - King Carol II of Romania abdicates; Romania and Hungary join the Axis forces.
1940/--/-- 22 - Prehistoric cave paintings are discovered at Lascaux in France.
1940/--/-- 22 - Radar wins Battle of Britian
1940/--/-- 22 - Raymond Chandler publishes the detective novel Farewell, My Lovely.
1940/--/-- 22 - The British expeditionary force is evacuated from Dunkerque in France.
1940/--/-- 22 - The German army begins a blitzkrieg attack on Holland, Belgium, and France.
1940/--/-- 22 - The Soviet Union annexes the Baltic States of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
1940/--/-- 22 - The Tacoma Narrows bridge collapses because of oscillations caused by the wind.
1940/--/-- 22 - Winston Churchill becomes British prime minister after Chamberlain resigns.
1940/02/14 22 *** Dilldine, Carolyn June (Forsyth) [Niece] - Born to Dilldine, Amon and Lafever, Ruba Ada (Dilldine)
1940/02/27 22 *** Lafever, Marjorie (Welch) [Niece] - Born to Lafever, Herschel and Stewart, Martha (Lafever) Winchester, Indiana
1940/02/27 22 *** Lafever, Michael [Nephew] - Born to Lafever, Herschel and Stewart, Martha (Lafever) Winchester, Indiana
1940/10/-- 23 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1941/--/-- 23 - A British task force sinks the German pocket battleship Bismarck.
1941/--/-- 23 - Baseball player Joe DiMaggio sets a new record for hitting in 56 consecutive games.
1941/--/-- 23 - Benchley Park computers sabotage German Enigma
1941/--/-- 23 - Churchill and Roosevelt's Atlantic Charter meeting establishes war and peace aims.
1941/--/-- 23 - German U-boats inflict heavy losses on British shipping in the Battle of the Atlantic.
1941/--/-- 23 - German paratroopers land on Crete and capture the island from the British.
1941/--/-- 23 - German playwright Bertholt Brecht writes Mother Courage and Her Children.
1941/--/-- 23 - Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece; British forces are evacuated to Crete.
1941/--/-- 23 - Germany invades the Soviet Union.
1941/--/-- 23 - Gutzon Borglum completes the sculptured heads of four presidents at Mount Rushmore.
1941/--/-- 23 - Ho Chi Minh organizes the Viet Minh to combat the Japanese in Indochina.
1941/--/-- 23 - Japanese forces capture Hong Kong and invade Malaya and the Philippines.
1941/--/-- 23 - Karsh's photographic portrait of Churchill becomes a symbol of British resistance.
1941/--/-- 23 - Nazi leader Rudolf Hess flies to England on a quixotic peace mission.
1941/--/-- 23 - Orson Welles directs the film Citizen Kane.
1941/--/-- 23 - President Roosevelt talks of Four Freedoms in his State of the Union speech.
1941/--/-- 23 - Swedish film actress Greta Garbo retires.
1941/--/-- 23 - The German Africa Corps under Erwin Rommel begins an offensive in North Africa.
1941/--/-- 23 - The German Blitz, the nighttime bombing of London, is at its height.
1941/--/-- 23 - The German advance on Moscow is halted by the winter weather.
1941/--/-- 23 - The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; America enters World War II.
1941/--/-- 23 - The Japanese occupy Indochina and move into Cambodia (Kampuchea) and Thailand.
1941/--/-- 23 - The Lend-Lease Act allows the transfer of U.S. war materials to Britain and China.
1941/--/-- 23 - The U.S. freezes Japanese assets in retaliation for Japan's territorial aggression.
1941/--/-- 23 - U.S. troops occupy Iceland to forestall its occupation by Germany.
1941/09/09 24 *** Lafever, Lilly Meirl (Williams) [Niece] - Born to Lafever, Charlie Columbus and Spears, Betty Ann (Lafever)
1941/10/-- 24 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1942/--/-- 24 *** Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow) [Sister] - began work in a factory in Richmond, Indiana
1942/--/-- 24 - A Russian counterattack isolates the Sixth Army at Stalingrad; Hitler orders no retreat.
1942/--/-- 24 - A U.S. fleet defeats the Japanese at the Battle of Midway.
1942/--/-- 24 - Actor James Cagney wins an Academy Award for the film Yankee Doodle Dandie.
1942/--/-- 24 - American B-25 bombers make the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.
1942/--/-- 24 - American and Filipino forces retreat to the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines.
1942/--/-- 24 - American crooner Bing Crosby records the hit song White Christmas.
1942/--/-- 24 - American forces in the Philippines surrender; the Bataan death march begins.
1942/--/-- 24 - American humorist James Thurber publishes The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
1942/--/-- 24 - French writer Albert Camus publishes The Stranger.
1942/--/-- 24 - Gandhi is arrested after the Quit India movement demands a British withdrawal.
1942/--/-- 24 - General MacArthur is ordered to the leave the Philippines; he vows I shall return.
1942/--/-- 24 - German forces occupy Vichy France; the French fleet is scuttled in Toulon harbor.
1942/--/-- 24 - Hitler proposes the Final Solution of the Jewish Question; the Holocaust begins.
1942/--/-- 24 - Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in the classic film Casablanca.
1942/--/-- 24 - Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti directs his first film Ossessione.
1942/--/-- 24 - Manhattan Project scientists under Fermi produce the first controlled chain reaction.
1942/--/-- 24 - Rommel's Africa Corps capture Tobruk and drive the British back to Egypt.
1942/--/-- 24 - The British Eighth Army under Montgomery begins a new drive into Libya.
1942/--/-- 24 - The German advance in the Caucasus is halted at Stalingrad (now Volgograd).
1942/--/-- 24 - The German advance on Egypt is halted at the Battle of El-Alamein.
1942/--/-- 24 - The Japanese conquer Malaya, Singapore, Indonesia and Burma.
1942/--/-- 24 - The RAF makes the first 1,000 bomber raid on the German city of Cologne.
1942/--/-- 24 - The Soviet southern offensive is halted; the Germans advance on the Caucasus.
1942/--/-- 24 - The U.S. government transfers 110,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps.
1942/--/-- 24 - U.S. Marines invade Guadalcanal, beginning the campaign of re-conquest.
1942/--/-- 24 - U.S. forces under General Eisenhower invade Morocco and Algeria.
1942/--/-- 24 - V-2 (Vengeance Weapon 2) rockets are tested at Peenemunde in Germany.
1942/03/04 24 *** Lafever, Lena Dora (Sweet) [Sister] & Sweet, Richard - Married
1942/04/27 24 *** Bristow, Jesse Willard & Lafever, Nora Linnie (Bristow) [Sister] - Married Married in Albany, KY while Jesse was AWOL from WW II.
1942/09/01 25 *** Lafever, Beecher Franklin [Brother] & Huntington, Jerry Avanelle (Lafever) - Married
1942/10/-- 25 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL NEW YORK (1)
1942/11/01 25 *** Lafever, Lonnie Oscar - 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 25 *** Sweet, Delores (Miller) [Niece] - Born to Sweet, Richard and Lafever, Lena Dora (Sweet)
In 1917 Transportation was by:
Foot
Horse
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
Balloon
Propeller airplane
By 1942 Transportation was by:
Car & Bus
Diesel ship
Helicopter
in addition.
By 1942 Transportation by:
Horse
Steamboat
Balloon
had been discontinued.
In 1917 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
Telephone
In 1917 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
By 1942 Food Preparation was by:
Gas
Refrigeration
in addition.
In 1917 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1917 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1917 War Making was by:
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
tank
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
TNT
Mines
Chemical agents
Aeroplane
By 1942 War Making was by:
Missiles
in addition.
In 1917 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
By 1942 Navigation was by:
Radio Signals
Radar
in addition.
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:53:03