Joseph-Michel-Andre-Philippe Gravel

Male3 May 1951–19 March 1985

Brief Life History of Joseph-Michel-Andre-Philippe

When Joseph-Michel-Andre-Philippe Gravel was born on 3 May 1951, in Stratford, Wolfe, Quebec, Canada, his father, Joseph-Aime Gravel, was 35 and his mother, Fernande Sevigny, was 32. He died on 19 March 1985, in Hollywood, Broward, Florida, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Wolfe, Quebec, Canada.

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Joseph-Aime Gravel
1916–1996
Fernande Sevigny
1918–1995
Joseph-Michel-Andre-Philippe Gravel
1951–1985

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    1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins

    Age 4

    The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.

    1955 · To War in Vietnam

    Age 4

    The Vietnam War was another civil war brought about from the Cold War. It was fought between the North Vietnamese, who were supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies, and the South Vietnamese, who were supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war caused two more civil wars in Laos and Cambodia and resulted in all three countries becoming communist states.

    1961 · The Twenty-Third Amendment

    Age 10

    The Twenty-third Amendment gives the residents in the District of Columbia the right to vote in presidential elections and to give the district electors in the Electoral College.

    Name Meaning

    Some characteristic forenames: French Marcel, Normand, Gaston, Jean Guy, Lucien, Pierre, Serge, Donat, Felicien, Fernand, Gilles, Michel.

    English and Welsh (of Norman origin): probably a habitational name from La Gravelle in La Mayenne and Saint-Hilaire-la-Gravelle in Loir-et-Cher, France.

    French: topographic name from a diminutive of Old French grave ‘gravel’ (see Grave ).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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