When Hiram Wilford Bigelow was born on 11 May 1918, in Douglas, Cochise, Arizona, United States, his father, John Arty Bigelow, was 42 and his mother, Laura Myrtle Kaneaster, was 27. He married Anka E Gjurgevich. He immigrated to World in 1940. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 16 November 2010, in Cochise, Arizona, United States, at the age of 92.
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Utah is home to one of the oldest coasters in the world that is still operational. The Roller Coaster, at Lagoon Amusement park, is listed number 5.
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.
English or Irish: perhaps a variant of English Bigley or Irish Begley .
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