When Ella Marie Compton was born on 22 October 1918, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Robert Compton, was 35 and her mother, Maude Frances Crank, was 29. She lived in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1935 and Magisterial District 8, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 11 November 2003, in Largo, Pinellas, Florida, United States, at the age of 85.
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
In 1926, in central Kentucky, Mammoth Cave was discovered. It dates back to Mississippian times and consists of over four hundred miles of passageway. On July 1, 1941, the cave was made a National Park.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England (but especially in the southwest) named Compton, from Old English cumb ‘short, straight valley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
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