Robert Bruce Allan

Male4 May 1955–9 November 2002

Brief Life History of Robert Bruce

When Robert Bruce Allan was born on 4 May 1955, in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States, his father, Robert Clair Allan, was 35 and his mother, Katherine Elizabeth Christner, was 33. He died on 9 November 2002, in Hoboken, Hudson, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 47.

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Robert Clair Allan
1919–2005
Katherine Elizabeth Christner
1921–2010
Robert Bruce Allan
1955–2002

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    World Events (3)

    1956 · The Federal Aid Highway Act

    Age 1

    With the construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate Highway System, the Federal Aid Highway Act made way for the largest public works project in American history at that time. One of the purposes was to provide military access to places in case of an attack.

    1958 · Construction of Port Newark–Elizabeth Marine Terminal

    Age 3

    In 1958, the Port Authority commissioned an expansion of Port Newark after successful experiments showed that standardized cargo containers could be stacked on ships. The Port Newark–Elizabeth Marine Terminal was opened on August 15, 1962 as the world's first container port, and quickly became known as America's Container Capital.

    1958 · The First U.S. Satellite in Space

    Age 3

    Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.

    Name Meaning

    Scottish and northern English: variant of Allen . This is the more common form of the name in Scotland and northern England. See also McAllen .

    History: An early bearer of this surname in North America was William Allan, a British soldier who took his family to the newly founded city of Halifax, NS, Canada, in 1749. His son John (1746–1805) was a Revolutionary soldier who eventually (1783) founded the settlement of Allan's Island, Passamaquoddy Bay, ME.

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

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