When Edwin Leslie Sharp was born on 17 November 1924, in Clark, Randolph, Missouri, United States, his father, Ed Leonard Sharp, was 28 and his mother, Grace Jewell Smith, was 23. He married Katherine Ann Kimbrough on 3 January 1947, in Moberly, Randolph, Missouri, United States. He lived in Prairie Township, Randolph, Missouri, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1945. He died on 16 January 1996, in Moberly, Randolph, Missouri, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Moberly, Randolph, Missouri, United States.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
On Oct 17 1929, Denver Municipal Airport opens. Later, in 1964, it would be renamed Stapleton International Airport. It would be replaced by Denver International Airport, 31 years later.
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English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English sharp(e) ‘sharp, quick, smart, acute, keen-witted’ (Old English scearp).
Irish: when not the English or Scots name in 1 above, an Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Géaráin ‘descendant of Géarán’, a personal name based on a diminutive of géar ‘sharp’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Scharf ‘sharp-cutting’ or of any of several other European names with similar meaning.
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