When Calvin Cecil Helton was born on 19 March 1903, in Shawnee, Kansas, United States, his father, Forrest Larwill Helton, was 24 and his mother, Rosa Lee Preedy, was 24. He married Flora Jane Scott in 1925, in Kansas, United States. He lived in Pleasant View Township, Texas, Oklahoma, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. He died on 18 October 1963, at the age of 60.
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Helton in Askham (Westmorland), from Old English helde ‘slope’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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