When James Clayton Firman was born on 30 October 1937, in Grand Rapids, Itasca, Minnesota, United States, his father, Sylvan Royal Firman, was 36 and his mother, Toini Johanna Salo, was 22. He married Dorothy Jean Gray on 28 February 1959, in Itasca, Minnesota, United States. He died on 20 July 2017, in his hometown, at the age of 79, and was buried in Grand Rapids, Itasca, Minnesota, United States.
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
President Roosevelt spoke in front of Congress and gave a speech on what Freedoms everyone should be granted. First being the Freedom of Speech. Second, the freedom of Religion, Third, The Freedom from Want, and Fourth, the Freedom from Fear. Being a big deal, FDR didn't just say that all people should have these freedoms because Americans already expected these freedoms.
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
English: variant of Firmin .
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational name for a carter, from Yiddish dialect fir ‘vehicle, cart’ + man ‘man’ (compare Furman 1).
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