Brief Life History of Shirley Jean
When Shirley Jean Gary was born on 19 September 1948, her father, John Robert Gary, was 23 and her mother, Otice Jane Bradford, was 17. She married Lawrence Newton Wetzel on 16 December 1964, in Sparta, Alleghany, North Carolina, United States. She died on 7 December 2005, in Naples, Collier, Florida, United States, at the age of 57.
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- Shirley Jean Gary in the North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011
- Shirley Jean Wetzel in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
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1949 · NATO is Established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The agreement of the alliance is to help defend each other if attacked by an external country. The last country to enter was Montenegro in 2017.
1962 · The Cuban Missile Crisis
"One of the most direct confrontations of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962, which primarily took place just south of Florida. Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev had crafted a secret agreement with Cuba (under Fidel Castro) to create nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter further invasions. U.S. intelligence agents discovered evidence of this activity, so President Kennedy issued an official warning against Cuba's creation of these weapons. Cuba and the Soviet Union did not comply. After much debate regarding the correct course of action, Kennedy opted to create a naval ""quarantine"" around Cuba. This initiated a series of intense communications between Kennedy and Khrushchev, both publicly and directly. The conflict escalated to the point that a U.S jet was shot down over Cuba as the countries made increasingly stern ultimatums. Kennedy instructed the Soviets to remove missiles with the promise that the U.S. would not attack Cuba, and the Soviets agreed."
1964 · The Twenty-Fourth Amendment
The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits both all the states and Congress from swaying the right to vote in elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): variant of Geary .
Irish: shortened form of McGarry , from Mac Fhearadhaigh.
French: variant or diminutive of Garin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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