When Nellie Jane Swann was born on 8 August 1925, in Warren, Bradley, Arkansas, United States, her father, Walter Grady Swann, was 24 and her mother, Inez Cleara Harris, was 27. She married John Dorsett Cannon on 23 January 1942, in Pascagoula, Jackson, Mississippi, United States. She lived in Prichard, Mobile, Alabama, United States in 1940 and New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States in 1950. She died on 25 June 1992, in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Tillmans Corner, Mobile, Alabama, United States.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
English: variant of Swan .
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