When Fay Fossett was born in 1924, in Gadsden, Etowah, Alabama, United States, her father, Azzie Franklin Fossett, was 24 and her mother, Lucille Gilbert, was 21. She lived in Attalla, Etowah, Alabama, United States for about 20 years. She died in 1989, in Gadsden, Etowah, Alabama, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Crestwood Memorial Cemetery, East Gadsden, Etowah, 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.
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.
English: variant of Fawcett .
English (of Norman origin): variant of Fozard, from the Old French personal name Fossard.
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