When Alfred Joyce Roberts was born on 2 October 1924, in Medill, Lamar, Texas, United States, his father, Roy James Roberts, was 33 and his mother, Minnie Leona Turner, was 30. He died on 21 February 1944, at the age of 19, and was buried in Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, Rizal, Philippines.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
English: from the personal name Robert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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