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Evelyn D. (Harris) King & Maurice King

November 29, 1983 - March 4, 1988 Harris County, TX

Evelyn D. (Harris) King

Maurice King

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Maurice King

c. 1957 - Unknown

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Katrina Kay (Kasavage) King

Martin Luther King Jr with MLK III

Karen King

Robert J King Jr

Crystal Renee (King) Stanton

Elizabeth King

John Henry (Cidon) King

John Henry (Cidon) King

Dolores Dee (King) Smothermon

Cidon B “CB” King

Oran Sibley King

Lucy Virginia (King) Bollinger

W. Edward Turner

Marabel (King) Turner

Alice Diane (Needy) King Gravesite

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In 1962, in the year that Evelyn D. (Harris) King was born, lasting from October 16th - 28th, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest that the United States and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war. The Soviet Union had been installing a nuclear missile base in Cuba. The United States established a blockade to stop the base from being completed. Through secret negotiations, war was averted: the Soviet Union agreed to dismantle their weapons in Cuba and the United States agreed to never invade Cuba and to dismantle weapons in Turkey and Italy.

In 1976, on August 4th, a mysterious illness struck an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. Within a week, 25 people had died and 130 people had been hospitalized. It was the first known instance of what came to be called "Legionnaires Disease."

In 1982, on June 30th, time ran out on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The Amendment had only received 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. First sent to the states in 1972, the Amendment stated that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex".

In 1983, 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.

In 1994, on May 6th, former political prisoner, lawyer, and activist Nelson Mandela was elected the first black President of South Africa. He was 75 when he was elected and he served one five-year term.