Cornelius Johnson (1920 - 1963)

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Bret Leroy Johnson

Michael Hugh Johnson as Logan in Logan's Run

Logan's Run 1976 Behind the Scenes

Harry Johnson

Aki Johnson

Henry and Fanny Johnson

Dorthea C (Lozar) Thompson Gravesite

Dorthea Thompson and Pamela Johnson

Jquanda Janee Johnson

Sandra Lee Johnson

Carolyn, Gladis, and Viola Johnson

Bill Johnson

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In 1920, in the year that Cornelius Johnson was born, the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, passed both Houses of Congress and was sent to the States to ratify. In August, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the Amendment and it became law eight days later. Mississippi ratified it in 1984.

In 1932, by the time he was merely 12 years old, five years to the day after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland, the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo and the first to replicate Lindbergh's feat. She flew over 2,000 miles in just under 15 hours.

In 1940, when he was 20 years old, on September 16th, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, was enacted - the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. Men between 21 and 36 were required to register with their draft boards. When World War II began, men between 18 and 45 were subject to service and men up to 65 were required to register.

In 1956, by the time he was 36 years old, on May 20th, the U.S. tested the first hydrogen bomb dropped from a plane over Bikini Atoll. Previously, hydrogen bombs had only been tested on the ground. The Atomic Age moved forward.

In 1963, in the year of Cornelius Johnson's passing, on November 22nd, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States when President John Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. Johnson was sworn in on the plane carrying Kennedy's body back to Washington D.C.