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Authur Harris Weaver
6/21/1903 - 2/19/1974

Authur Harris Weaver was born on June 21, 1903 in Cedar Springs, Early County, Georgia and died on February 19, 1974 in Montezuma, Dooly County, Georgia. He lived to be 70 years old.

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Click on any of the News, Events, or Discoveries buttons above to see historical things that happened during Authur Weaver's life. These are only some of the major events that affected the life and times of Authur, his family, and friends. For example, Authur is 6 years old when The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)

Age	Date	Event
2	1905	Crisp, Grady, Jenkins, Tift, Davis, Stephens, Toombs, Turner, and Ben Hill Counties formed.
9	1912	Forsyth, Bleckley, and Wheeler Counties formed.
11	1914	Barrow, Candler, Bacon, and Evans Counties are formed.
14	1917	Atkinson and Treutlen Counties are formed.
17	1920	Seminole, Lanier, Brantley, Long, and Lamar Counties are formed.
21	1924	Peach County is formed.

Age	Date	Event
1	1904	The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming
3	1906	Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes
3	1906	The triode vacuum tube is invented
3	1906	Electrons are discovered by Thomson
9	1912	The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people.
10	1913	Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant
11	1914	The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed
20	1923	Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
20	1923	Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
21	1924	Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
23	1926	Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
24	1927	The first television transmission was announced in England
25	1928	Big bang theory was introduced
33	1936	The first regular television broadcast happens in England
35	1938	Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
43	1946	The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
44	1947	Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
48	1951	The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
49	1952	The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
54	1957	Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
57	1960	The ruby laser was created by Maiman
59	1962	U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
62	1965	The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
68	1971	The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union
71	1974	Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright

Age	Date	Event
5	1908	NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile
9	1912	White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out.
10	1913	NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures
14	1917	NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism.
16	1919	NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.
35	1938	NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
36	1939	NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
38	1941	NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers.
47	1950	NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
52	1955	NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
57	1960	NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
60	1963	NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
66	1969	NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface.
67	1970	NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest.

Age	Date	Event
6	1909	The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
7	1910	Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area.
24	1927	Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
26	1929	Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
27	1930	Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
29	1932	Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
30	1933	Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone!
31	1934	Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains.
31	1934	Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
32	1935	Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
36	1939	Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
40	1943	Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit.
41	1944	On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
42	1945	President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
51	1954	The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency.
59	1962	The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
63	1966	The Black Panther party is founded.
64	1967	Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad.
68	1971	Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.
69	1972	Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.
70	1973	The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.

Age	Date	Event
6	1909	The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe
11	1914	World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days.
14	1917	Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.
16	1919	The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
17	1920	Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.
35	1938	Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
36	1939	Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun.
42	1945	World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

Marriages

Ouida Crawford
Born on May 22, 1911 and died on September 2, 2002

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The Children of Authur Harris Weaver

Arthur Henry Weaver
Born in Early County, Georgia on October 9, 1929 and died in Clinton, Hinds County, Mississippi on April 10, 2000. He was 70 years old.

Cynthia Weaver
Born in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia on April 7, 1933 and died in Greenwood, South Carolina on December 9, 2007. She was 74 years old.

She married Bernie Briskin....

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