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Leon Howard
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Leon Howard
9/10/1914 - 7/21/1968
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Leon Howard was born on September 10, 1914 in Geneva County, Alabama and died on July 21, 1968 in Houston County, Alabama. He lived to be 53 years old.
Married 12/30/1934 to Eunice Register in Houston Co. AL.(divorced 1939)
In 1944 he married Helen Jeanette Harding (5/30/1926 AL). | 
 | Census | 1/6/1920 | Mehern AL (Geneva County) | 5 yrs old | | Listed as family number 79: William B. Howard (age 35), Clara May (wife, age 25), Lucile (age 7), Lillian (age 5), and Leon (son, age 5). William, and his parents, were born in GA. Clara was born in AL, as were her parents. All children were born in AL. William states his occupation as farmer and he is operating a general farm. |
| Census | 5/9/1930 | Fadette AL (Geneva County) | 15 yrs old | | Listed as family #382: William B. Howard (age 44), Clyde (wife, age 36), Lillian (daughter, age 15), Leon (son, age 15), Alice (daughter, age 9), Lloyd (son, age 6), Jessie N. (daughter, age 4 months) and Henry D. Smith (brother-in-law, age 61). William is unable to read/write but his wife and older children can. William and his parents were born in GA. Everyone else is born in AL. |
| Census | 1/1/1940 | Fadette AL (Geneva County) | 25 yrs old | | #33 - Clara M. Howard (age 45),
Leon Howard (25),
Loyd Howard (16),
Jessie N Howard (1). All born in AL. |
| Marriage | 8/12/1944 | AL (Russell County) | 29 yrs old | | page 205 -Name: Leon Howard,Age: 29,
Spouse: Helen Harding, Age: 18,
Marriage Date: Aug.12, 1944,
Marriage Place: Russell, Alabama,
Groom'sFather: Ben Howard,
Groom's Mother: Clara Smith,Bride's Father: Hudson Harding,
Bride's Mother: Clara Mitchell,
Film Number: 001846331 |
| Graveyard/Tombstone | 7/21/1968 | AL (Houston County) | 53 yrs old | | Name: Leon Howard,
Birth Date: Sept. 10, 1914,
Death Date: July 21, 1968,
Cemetery: New Providence Baptist Church Cemetery,
Burial Place: Houston County, Alabama, |
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| 9 |
1923 |
Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes |
| 9 |
1923 |
Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id" |
| 10 |
1924 |
Insecticides are used for the first time on crops |
| 12 |
1926 |
Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket |
| 13 |
1927 |
The first television transmission was announced in England |
| 14 |
1928 |
Big bang theory was introduced |
| 22 |
1936 |
The first regular television broadcast happens in England |
| 24 |
1938 |
Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission |
| 32 |
1946 |
The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes |
| 33 |
1947 |
Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor |
| 37 |
1951 |
The first color television is introduced in the U.S. |
| 38 |
1952 |
The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen. |
| 43 |
1957 |
Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S. |
| 46 |
1960 |
The ruby laser was created by Maiman |
| 48 |
1962 |
U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth |
| 51 |
1965 |
The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union |
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| 3 |
1917 |
NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism. |
| 5 |
1919 |
NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty. |
| 24 |
1938 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic. |
| 25 |
1939 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States |
| 27 |
1941 |
NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers. |
| 36 |
1950 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later. |
| 41 |
1955 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL. |
| 46 |
1960 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public |
| 49 |
1963 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. |
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| 13 |
1927 |
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs. |
| 15 |
1929 |
Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October |
| 16 |
1930 |
Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states. |
| 18 |
1932 |
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered. |
| 19 |
1933 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone! |
| 20 |
1934 |
Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize. |
| 20 |
1934 |
Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains. |
| 21 |
1935 |
Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time. |
| 25 |
1939 |
Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color. |
| 29 |
1943 |
Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit. |
| 30 |
1944 |
On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day") |
| 31 |
1945 |
President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. |
| 40 |
1954 |
The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency. |
| 48 |
1962 |
The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba. |
| 52 |
1966 |
The Black Panther party is founded. |
| 53 |
1967 |
Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad. |
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| 3 |
1917 |
Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes. |
| 5 |
1919 |
The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I. |
| 6 |
1920 |
Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made. |
| 24 |
1938 |
Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia. |
| 25 |
1939 |
Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun. |
| 31 |
1945 |
World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
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