Cleo Davis (1902 - 1983)

Cleo's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Davis family tree.

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Cleo's Family

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Clovis Davis Coil Davis Charles Monroe Davis Cleo Davis

Clarence Albert Davis Cora Roberta (Davis) Williams Columbus Davis Clinton Davis

Siblings:

Clarence Albert Davis

Jan 7, 1892 - Nov 14, 1954

Clovis Davis

Jun 9, 1894 - Feb 2, 1969

Cora Roberta (Davis) Williams

Jan 9, 1901 - 1992

Coil Davis

c. 1910 - c. 1939

Columbus Davis

1903 - Jan 8, 1984

Charles Monroe Davis

Jan 8, 1910 - Jun 19, 1959

Clinton Davis

Jan 16, 1900 - Aug 10, 1984

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Cleo Davis gravesite

Clarence Albert Davis

Clarence, Cleo, Clinton, & Columbus Davis, MO

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In 1902, in the year that Cleo Davis was born, the world famous Italian tenor, Enrico Caruso, made the first gramophone recording by a popular singer. Accompanied by only a piano, his voice recordings became a big seller and did much to popularize the new-fangled gramophone. He had to sing into a metal "horn" that relayed his voice to a metal disc. And the songs had to be under 4 and a half minutes!

In 1917, when he was merely 15 years old, in April, the U.S. entered World War I, declaring war against Germany. President Wilson had previously declared neutrality in the war - a position supported by the majority of Americans - but after Germany declared that they would sink all ships trading with Great Britain and sunk U.S. ships, public opinion began to change. Then the Lusitania was sunk, killing 1,201 - including 128 Americans - and more U.S. ships were sunk. The U.S. could stand aside no longer.

In 1931, at the age of 29 years old, Cleo was alive when on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.

In 1972, by the time he was 70 years old, on September 5th, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, with the assistance of German neo-nazis, kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich. The attackers crept into the Olympic Village and abducted the athletes while they were sleeping. A German policeman was also killed.

In 1983, in the year of Cleo Davis's passing, physicist Sally K. Ride, 32, became the first US woman astronaut in space as a crew member aboard space shuttle Challenger on June 18th. She was also the youngest (32) astronaut to go into space. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space in 1963.