When Charles Murrell Lind was born on 8 November 1941, in California, United States, his father, William Franklin Lind, was 29 and his mother, Loretta Margaret Staten, was 18. He died on 22 February 2000, at the age of 58, and was buried in Cowlington, Le Flore, Oklahoma, United States.
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Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Oklahoma was home to 22,000 German and Italian prisoners of war. The prisoners were sent to work on farms and ranches to continue the production work as many American men were off at war.
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
Scandinavian, English, and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a lime tree, Scandinavian and Middle English lind. As a Swedish name, it is often of ornamental origin.
North German and Danish: habitational name from any of various places called with Lind ‘lime tree’.
South German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a gentle, mild, tolerant man, from Middle High German lint, linde, Yiddish lind ‘gentle, mild’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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