Charles Acles Langley

Brief Life History of Charles Acles

When Charles Acles Langley was born on 5 August 1925, in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States, his father, Ruben Edward Langley, was 53 and his mother, Margia Susan Ronk, was 43. He married Della Louvena Jones in 1944, in San Francisco, California, United States. He lived in Whittier Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 25 January 2011, in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Charles Acles Langley
1925–2011
Della Louvena Jones
Marriage: 1944

Sources (10)

  • Charles A Langley in household of Ruben Langley, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Charles Acles Langley, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Charles Acles Langley, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

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World Events (8)

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary

Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963. 

1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War

The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Langley or Longley (in Kent, Sussex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Somerset, Shrops, Lancashire, Durham, and many other counties), themselves from Old English lang ‘long’ + lēah ‘wood, glade, clearing’.

English: from the Middle English female personal name Langlif (Old Norse Langlíf ‘long’ + ‘life’ or ‘body’).

Americanized form of French Langlais .

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

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