When George Haggerty Rolland was born on 10 March 1941, in El Centro, Imperial, California, United States, his father, George Haggarty Rowland, was 28 and his mother, Priscilla E Claridge, was 27. He lived in Long Beach Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 17 August 2002, in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States, at the age of 61.
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Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
The California grizzly bear became designated as the state animal in 1953.
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
Some characteristic forenames: French Gaston, Joffre, Francois, Jean-Marc, Lucien, Mathieu, Pascal, Pierre.
French, Breton, Scottish, and English: variant of Roland . This is the most common form of the surname in France, especially in Brittany and the south. Compare Ruland and Rulon .
Norwegian (Rølland): habitational name from either the farm name Rødland, found in two places in Hordaland, most likely a compound of Old Norse reyrr ‘rush’ (a plant) + land ‘(piece of) land, farmstead’, or the farm name Rølland in Agder, from Old Norse ruthland ‘cleared land, clearing’. Compare Rodland and Roland .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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