When robert banning sr was born on 23 May 1938, in New York, United States, his father, Mr Richard Banning, was 24 and his mother, Mrs Anna Thersea Forte, was 21. He lived in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States in 1940. He died in 1987, in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 49.
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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.
The United Nations was officially organized on October 24, 1945 with representatives from 50 countries. New York City became the permanent Headquarters of the United Nations in 1952.
English: perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Banning, which might be a pet form of Old English Banna (see Bann 2).
Dutch and German: habitational name from a farm so named, which once belonged to a certain Banno and his kin. The personal name Banno is possibly a form of an ancient Germanic Bern- ‘bear’ name. The farm name Banning has been located in several places in Gelderland. In North America, this surname may also be an altered form of the Dutch cognate Bannink.
History: The Bannings were an important family in Amsterdam from the 15th century on. Rembrandt's famous painting The Night Watch (16th century) depicts the militia company of captain Frans Banning Cocq.
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