James Arthur ALLEN Sr.
7 January 1937–20 November 2002 (Age 65)
Union, Greene, Alabama, United States
The Life of James Arthur
James Arthur ALLEN Sr. was born on 7 January 1937, in Union, Greene, Alabama, United States. He died on 20 November 2002, in Alabama, United States, at the age of 65.
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World Events (3)
1941
Age 4
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1941 · The Four Freedoms
Age 4
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.
1941 · The Tuskegee Airmen
Age 4
The first African-American military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps were known as the Tuskegee Airmen, after the Tuskegee Army Air Field where they trained. The group flew over 15,000 individual sorties during World War II which earned them over 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from a Celtic personal name of great antiquity and obscurity. In England the personal name is now usually spelled Alan, the surname Allen; in Scotland the surname is more often Allan. Various suggestions have been put forward regarding its origin; the most plausible is that it originally meant ‘little rock’. Compare Gaelic ailín, diminutive of ail ‘rock’. The present-day frequency of the surname Allen in England and Ireland is partly accounted for by the popularity of the personal name among Breton followers of William the Conqueror, by whom it was imported first to Britain and then to Ireland. St. Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another St. Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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- Legacy NFS Source: James Arthur ALLEN Sr. - death: 20 November 2002; Alabama, United States
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