Cyril William Taylor
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Parents
Spouse
Mattie Lee Cunningham
Mattie Lee Cunningham
1918 - 1997
Siblings
Anna Lavinia Taylor
Anna Lavinia Taylor
1908 - 1962
James Fuller Taylor
James Fuller Taylor
1910 - 1984
Paul Stewart Taylor
Paul Stewart Taylor
1919 - 1973

Cyril was a Lieutenant in the US Air Force during World War II

1937


Sep 9
Age: 25y

marriage


Mattie Lee Cunningham
Louisiana, USA ⇓
1937 • The Marihuana Tax Act Pub. 238, 75th Congress, 50 Stat. 551 (Aug. 2, 1937), is a significant bill on the path that will lead to the criminalization of cannabis. It was introduced to U.S. Congress by Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Harry Anslinger. (The Act is now commonly referred to using the modern spelling as the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act.)

1940


Age: 27y
1940 Zeeland is overrun by German forces, ending the Battle of the Netherlands and beginning full German occupation of the Netherlands (Noord-Beveland surrenders on May 18 and remaining Dutch troops are withdrawn from Zeelandic Flanders on May 19).

1940


Age: 27y
1940 Bugs Bunny makes his debut in the Oscar-nominated cartoon short, A Wild Hare. However, it is not until 1941 that his name is adopted.

1942


Sep 29
Age: 30y
1942 Andrée Borrel and Lise de Baissac become the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied France.

1951


Jan 26
Age: 38y

1988


May 9
Age: 76y
1988 • In Jerusalem, Israeli police and Palestinian protestors clash at the Dome of the Rock; several police and at least 70 Palestinians are injured.

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