Robert Clay Garrison
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Robert L Garrison
Robert L Garrison
1921 - 1980
Vernon Lloyd Garrison
Vernon Lloyd Garrison
1924 - 1994
Arthur Garrison
Arthur Garrison
1925 - 1981

1919


Age: 24y
1919 Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day.

1921


Age: 26y

birth of child


Robert L Garrison
1921 • Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dub her the first Miss America.

1924


Age: 29y

birth of child


Vernon Lloyd Garrison
1924 • Rondout Heist: Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois; the robbery is later found to have been an inside job.

1961


Age: 66y
1961 • U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives a widely watched TV speech on the Berlin crisis, warning "we will not be driven out of Berlin." Kennedy urges Americans to build fallout shelters, setting off a four-month debate on civil defense.

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