When Kenneth Raymond Metzger was born on 23 July 1935, in Bracken, Kentucky, United States, his father, Kenneth Woods Metzger, was 29 and his mother, Mabel Alberta Clark, was 21. He lived in Magisterial District 2 Foster, Bracken, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 13 March 2020, in Juneau, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 84.
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The hanging of Rainey Bethea on August 14,1936, in Owensboro, Kentucky was the last pubic hanging in the state and the United States. Anywhere from 15,000-20,000 people showed up for this event. The media was all over the hanging since the Sheriff of Davies county was a female, even though she did not pull levers. Because of the media coverage and the circus it caused, this was the last hanging.
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a butcher from Middle High German metziger, metzjer, German Metzger (probably deriving from Old French macecrier ‘butcher’).
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