When Dorothy Dean McWilliams was born on 17 April 1917, in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States, her father, John McWilliams Jr, was 36 and her mother, Julia Carolyn Weston, was 39. She married Ivan Roper Cousins Jr. in June 1951, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. She lived in Sausalito, Marin, California, United States in 2002. She died on 4 September 2006, in Mill Valley, Marin, California, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Irish (northern): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Uilleim, a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of William , with excrescent English -s. In Ireland it sometimes represents a partial Gaelicization of Welsh Williams .
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