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Royce Eugene Coxwell 

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Ely "EL" Lee Coxwell
3/12/1913 - 1/9/2000

Lova Lee "Nig" Crozier
4/27/1914 - 1/6/2001
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Royce Eugene Coxwell
12/28/1936 - 12/26/1969
Royce Eugene Coxwell was born on December 28, 1936 in Blountstown, Florida and died on December 26, 1969 in Jacksonville, Florida. He lived to be 33 years old.

Married 6/26/1956 in Bainbridge, GA to Mary Frances Bryant (5/8/1940). No children
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21 1957 The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government.
26 1962 The Seminole Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government.
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2 1938 Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
10 1946 The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
11 1947 Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
15 1951 The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
16 1952 The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
21 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.
24 1960 The ruby laser was created by Maiman
26 1962 U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
29 1965 The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
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2 1938 NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
3 1939 NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
5 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.
14 1950 NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
19 1955 NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
24 1960 NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
27 1963 NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
33 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.
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3 1939 Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
7 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.
8 1944 On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
9 1945 President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
18 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.
26 1962 The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
30 1966 The Black Panther party is founded.
31 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.
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2 1938 Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
3 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.
9 1945 World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.


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