When Kathleen Vaughn Harker was born on 20 July 1940, in New Hanover, North Carolina, United States, her father, James Anthony Harker, was 26 and her mother, Sophia Alice Sanders Harker, was 21. She died on 22 December 2003, in Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, United States.
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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.
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
English:
habitational name either from Harker (now Harkerside) in Grinton parish (North Yorkshire), of uncertain etymology, or from Harker in Halsall parish (Lancashire), derived from Old English hār ‘hoar, gray’ or Old English hara ‘hare’ + Old Norse kjarr ‘marsh overgrown with brushwood’.
nickname for an eavesdropper or busybody, from an agent derivative of Middle English herkien ‘to listen’. The name seems to be attested in southwestern England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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