Brief Life History of Johnny Ray
When Johnny Ray Buford was born on 4 December 1955, in Huntsville, Madison, Alabama, United States, his father, Marvin Elbert Buford, was 43 and his mother, Mary Berniece Anders, was 25. He died on 9 March 1979, in Gurley, Madison, Alabama, United States, at the age of 23, and was buried in Beason Cemetery, Gurley, Madison, Alabama, United States.
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1956 · The Federal Aid Highway Act
With the construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate Highway System, the Federal Aid Highway Act made way for the largest public works project in American history at that time. One of the purposes was to provide military access to places in case of an attack.
1958 · The First U.S. Satellite in Space
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
1962 · The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union because of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. This confrontation was the closest that the Cold War became a nuclear war.
Name Meaning
Altered form of French Beaufort or of its English altered form Beauford . Compare Bufford .
History: American bearers of this name are mostly descended from Richard Beaufort or Beauford, who came from England to Lancaster County, VA, in 1635. He was born in England as a son of a French Huguenot immigrant John Beaufort and is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors (as Richard Beauford or Beaufort or Buford). See also Beaufort .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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