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Odis "Pete" Leverne Singleton  Jr.

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Odis Leverne Singleton Sr
12/18/1924 - 1/6/1966

Daphne Ardith Knudson
6/21/1930 - 11/15/2023
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Odis "Pete" Leverne Singleton Jr.
6/8/1952 - 5/29/1977
(Shown at age 21)
Odis "Pete" Leverne Singleton, Jr., was born on June 8, 1952 in Albeny, Georgia and died on May 29, 1977 in New Port News, Virginia. He lived to be 24 years old.

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Other5/1/1977 Newport News City VA (Newport News County) 24 yrs old 
Social Security Death Index: Odis Singleton, born June 8, 1949, dies sometime in May 1977. His SSN was issued 1964 in Florida and his last known address was in Newport News, VA. 

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5 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.
8 1960 The ruby laser was created by Maiman
10 1962 U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
13 1965 The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
19 1971 The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union
22 1974 Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright
23 1975 Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography)
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3 1955 NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
8 1960 NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
11 1963 NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
17 1969 NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface.
18 1970 NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest.
25 1977 NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time.
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2 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.
10 1962 The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
14 1966 The Black Panther party is founded.
15 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.
19 1971 Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.
20 1972 Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.
21 1973 The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.
25 1977 Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president.
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