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Cynthia Weaver

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		Ouida Iona Crawford 5/22/1911 - 9/2/2002

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Cynthia Weaver
4/7/1933 - 12/9/2007

Cynthia Weaver was born on April 7, 1933 in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia and died on December 9, 2007 in Greenwood, South Carolina. He lived to be 74 years old.

She married Bernie Briskin.

	Newspaper	12/9/2007	Greenwood SC	74 yrs old
	BRISKIN Cynthia Weaver Briskin, 76, of Westbrook Drive, beloved mother and widow of Bernie Briskin, died Sunday, December 09, 2007 at her home surrounded by her loving family. Born in Columbus, GA, she was a daughter of the late Harry and Ouida Crawford Bonnoyer. She was the former owner of Debs and Brides by Cynthia and Bernie's Jewelers. She was a member of Walton Way Temple and an avid Jacksonville Jaguar fan. Surviving are two sons and their wives: Ricky and Jewel Briskin and Barry and Doni Briskin all of Greenwood; two brothers: Wayne Weaver and Ronald Weaver both of Jacksonville, FL; a granddaughter Lindsay Briskin; and two step grandchildren: Clint Jennings and Kristina Jennings. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday at Harley Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jim Dennis officiating and graveside services will be held at 1:30 P.M. at Westover Memorial Park in Augusta, GA. The family is at the home of her son Barry Briskin, 116 Biltmore Street, Greenwood, SC 29646. Memorials may be made to the Hospice of the Piedmont, 408 West Alexander Ave., Greenwood, SC, 29646. Published in the Florida Times-Union on Dec. 11, 2007

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Age	Date	Event
3	1936	The first regular television broadcast happens in England
5	1938	Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
13	1946	The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
14	1947	Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
18	1951	The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
19	1952	The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
24	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.
27	1960	The ruby laser was created by Maiman
29	1962	U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
32	1965	The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
38	1971	The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union
41	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
42	1975	Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography)
46	1979	First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination
48	1981	AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space.
53	1986	Moments after liftoff the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing size astronauts and a New Hampshire teacher.
56	1989	An asteroid comes relatively close to colliding with the earth
57	1990	Hubble Space Telescope launched; optical defect discovered and repaired later in 1993.
61	1994	The world watches comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (S-L 9) colliding with Jupiter
64	1997	First Pathfinder vehicle lands on Mars and begin sending first photographs of Martin landscape. These are made available on the internet.
65	1998	Construction begins on the International Space Station.
67	2000	Successful cloning of animals begins in the early 2000s.
71	2004	March 2, 2004 - Mars rover MER-B (Opportunity) confirms to NASA that the area of their landing was once covered in water.

Age	Date	Event
5	1938	NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
6	1939	NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
8	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.
17	1950	NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
22	1955	NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
27	1960	NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
30	1963	NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
36	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.
37	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.
44	1977	NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time.
51	1984	NEWS HEADLINES: The first Macintosh computer with a mouse is launched and begins the computer age as it is shortly followed by the first PC and Microsoft.
59	1992	NEWS HEADLINES: The "World Wide Web" (Internet) became available for home use through college and university sponsored "freenets".
67	2000	November 7, 2000 - George W. Bush, son of the former President, and Vice President Al Gore hold a virtual dead-heat for the presidency, with a disputed vote in Florida holding off the naming of the winner of the President Election until the Supreme Court of the United States voted in favor of Bush on December 12. This ruling gave Florida to the Bush camp by a 527 vote majority, and a victory in the Electoral College, 271-266, despite gaining less popular votes than Gore.
67	2000	December 28, 2000 - Montgomery Ward, the retail giant since its founding one hundred and twenty-eight years before, announces its intention to cease business. Competition from newer, low-cost retail behemoths such as Wal-Mart lead to its demise. Over the next 10 years Wal-Mart pushes most other 'dime store' businesses to closure.
67	2000	June 1, 2000 - For the first time since 1851, the United States of America does not participate in a major World's Fair, the Hannover 2000 World Expo, despite a record number, 187, of international participants. President Bill Clinton had withdrawn U.S. participation late in 1999 after agreement to participate in 1997. Congressional apathy toward participation in world events continues a decline in U.S. involvement after the fall of the Soviet Union and victory in the Cold War. A consequence of this policy has led to a rise, among some experts, of anti-American sentiment, and a decline of U.S. influence in diplomatic affairs. Less than half, 18.1 million, of the original attendance estimate, 40 million, visit Hannover's event.
67	2000	April 3, 2000 - The ruling in the case of the United States versus Microsoft states that the company did violate anti-trust laws by diminishing the capability of its rivals to compete.
67	2000	The 2000 census enumerates a population of 281,421,906, increasing 13.2% since 1990. As regions, the South and West continued to pick up the majority of the increase in population, moving the geographic center of U.S. population to Phelps County, Missouri.
68	2001	NEWS HEADLINES: September 11 -- (9 11) -- The World Trade Towers are hit by terrorist flying commercial planes full of passengers.
68	2001	April 8, 2001 - Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer to hold all four major golf titles simulteneously by winning the Master's tournament in Augusta, Georgia. This followed a remarkable run in 2000 when Woods claimed victory at the final three majors of that season; the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship.
69	2002	February 8, 2002 - Amid tight security due to terrorism concerns, the Winter Olympic Games are opened by President George W. Bush in Salt Lake City, Utah. They would continue without major incident until the closing ceremony on February 24.
70	2003	April 9, 2003 - The U.S. coalition siezes control of Baghdad in the Iraq conflict.
70	2003	December 13, 2003 - Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq, is captured in a small bunker in Tikrit by the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. General fear of terrorism begins to subside.
70	2003	February 1, 2003 - A tragedy at NASA occurs when the Space Shuttle Columbia explodes upon reentry over Texas. All seven astronauts inside are killed.
71	2004	February 3, 2004 - The Central Intelligence Agency admits that the imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction (which justified the war on Iraq) was not present before the 2003 Iraq war began.
72	2005	August 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf Coast, inundating the city of New Orleans with water from Lake Pontchetrain when the levees that maintain the below sea level city break. Over one thousand three hundred people perish from Alabama to Louisiana in one of the worst natural disasters to strike the United States. (Picture Below: Damage across the Gulf Coast of the United States after Hurricane Katrina.)
72	2005	July 26, 2005 - In the first Space Shuttle flight since the tragedy of 2003, Discovery goes into orbit on a mission that returns to earth safely on August 9.
72	2005	United States labor is squeezed by global forces and the United States economy continues to decline.

Age	Date	Event
1	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.
1	1934	Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
2	1935	Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
6	1939	Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
10	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.
11	1944	On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
12	1945	President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
21	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.
29	1962	The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
33	1966	The Black Panther party is founded.
34	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.
38	1971	Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.
39	1972	Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.
40	1973	The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.
44	1977	Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president.
48	1981	Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican)
54	1987	January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County.
54	1987	President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev meet in Washington and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all Soviet and US missiles.
56	1989	George Bush is elected president. (Republican)
60	1993	Bill Clinton is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Democrat)
61	1994	O.J. Simpson is chased down by police and later his trial is telecast for the world to watch.
64	1997	A robust economy creates the longest prosperity in U.S. history.
66	1999	United States budget goes into surplus.
68	2001	George W. Bush is elected president. He is the son of George Bush who served as president from 1989-1993. He will serve two terms. (Republican)
71	2004	November 2, 2004 - President George W. Bush wins reelection over Democratic Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts. He wins 50.7% of the popular vote and 286 votes in the Electoral College.
71	2004	National Museum of the American Indian is established on the mall in Washington DC.
71	2004	National Museum of the American Indian is established in Washington DC.
73	2006	December 1, 2006 - United States manufacturing capacity and esteem wanes, signalled by the sale of the last shares of his General Motors stock by U.S. billionaire Kirk Kerkorian.

Age	Date	Event
5	1938	Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
6	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.
12	1945	World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
56	1989	The Berlin Wall falls uniting communist East Germany and capitalistic West Germany
57	1990	Iraq (Sadam Hussein) invades Kuwait causing the U.N. to impose sanctions. This leads to the Gulf War.
59	1992	North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is formed.
60	1993	South Africa accepts racial equality.
63	1996	Pope John Paul II affirmed evolution by natural selection
66	1999	Yugoslavia breaks up and Serbia is contained.
67	2000	China begins to emerge as an economic giant.
67	2000	Internet, cellphones, and social networking (using websites such as Twitter and Facebook) begin to grow in popularity and become standards for most house holds by 2010.
68	2001	September 11, 2001 - 911 - Islamic fundamentalist terrorists hijack four U.S. airliners and crash them into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City. The attack of two planes levels the World Trade Center and the crash of one plane inflicts serious damage to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, causing nearly 3,000 deaths. The fourth plane is heroically crashed by passengers into a Shanksville, Pennsylvania cornfield when they learn of the plot, preventing destruction of another structure in Washington, D.C., supposed to be the White House or the Capitol building. The plot is attributed to the Al-Qaeda organization led by Osama Bin Laden.
68	2001	September 18, 2001 - Anthrax attacks by mail from Princeton, New Jersey against news and government targets begin. Federal officials announce the first case on October 4. World wide concern about terrorism continues to escalate.
68	2001	April 1, 2001 - China-U.S. incident. An American spyplane collides with a fighter plane of China and makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew is detained for ten days
68	2001	October 7, 2001 - In response to the tragedy of September 11, the United States military, with participation from its ally the United Kingdom, commence the first attack in the War on Terrorism on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. By November 12, the Taliban government leaves the capital, Kabul.
69	2002	May 21, 2002 - The United States State Department issues its report in the War on Terror. It states that there are seven nations that a State-Sponsors: Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.
69	2002	November 8, 2002 - The United Nations passes Resolution 1441 in a unanimous Security Council vote. It forces Saddam Hussein and Iraq to disarm or face serious consequences.
69	2002	November 21, 2002 - NATO invites additional members of the former Soviet bloc to join its membership. Seven nations are included in the invitation; Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
70	2003	March 19, 2003 - The War in Iraq begins with the bombing of Baghdad after additional measures and mandates from the United Nations and the United States coalition fail to gain concessions or the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. The U.S. coalition, upon failure to extract authority from the U.N. for action due to the veto power of France, begin land operations one day later with participation from U.S., British, Australian, and Polish troops.
73	2006	February 22, 2006 - In a continuing shift of the retail industry to new platforms, the one billionth song is downloaded from the internet music store, Apple iTunes. This shift comes at the expense of many brick and mortar chains, including Tower Records. The trend of purchasing items via the internet, instead of local stores, continues to grow.
74	2007	The world climate and ocean temperatures continue to rise. Both polar caps are shrinking at a record breaking rate.
74	2007	January 10, 2007 - President George W. Bush announces a troop surge of 21,500 for the war in Iraq to stem the violence at the request of new commander General Petreus. This controversial policy begins to show positive signs once fully implemented during the summer months, with a reduction in violent attacks against coalition forces and Iraqi civilians. Progress on the political front within the Iraqi national government, however, does not keep pace with positive developments on the military front.

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