When Herbert Anderson Willis was born on 22 January 1929, in New Bern, Craven, North Carolina, United States, his father, George Phillip Willis Sr, was 39 and his mother, Irene Hawkins, was 34. He lived in Township 8, Craven, North Carolina, United States in 1940. He died on 29 December 1986, in Waynesboro, Virginia, United States, at the age of 57.
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The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
The Pentagon was developed as the Department of Defense had outgrown the other buildings were it was previous located.The groundbreaking for the Pentagon was on September 11, 1941. When the Pentagon was being built, it was determined that it could be no taller than four stories high. Colonel Leslie R. Groves was the supervisor of the project, he would later become known for helping on the Manhattan Project.
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
variant of Will with genitival -s. This surname represents a retention of the second syllable, introduced by the addition of the Middle English genitival suffix -es, which would have been pronounced in the Middle English period. Compare Wills . In some cases the name is a variant of Willey , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
variant of Willows .
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