Harry W Jr Shaffer (born 1918)

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Mary Margaret Shaffer

Marcus Lafayette Shaffer

Biddie Shaffer

Dayton Shaffer

Mary Katherine Williams

Helen Cecilia Shaffer

Willard Lawrence Shaffer

Francis Edward Shaffer

Paul Emerson Shaffer

Sarah "Sallie" Christopher

Elizabeth Lynn Shaffer

Ernest Lee Shaffer

Virgie Mae Trader

Lawrence Vinton Shaffer

Charles Patrick Shaffer

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In 1918, in the year that Harry W Jr Shaffer was born, on November 11th, an armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany, ending the fighting on the Western Front in World War I. This meant a complete defeat of Germany although Germany never formally surrendered. It took another six months of negotiations to sign an actual peace treaty between the warring parties.

In 1920, in September, a bomb exploded in the J.P. Morgan bank building in New York City, killing 30 people immediately - 8 later died due to their injuries - and injuring another 200. Killing more people than the 1910 bombing of the LA Times (the deadliest terrorist act up until then), no one took responsibility and the perpetrators were never found. Italian anarchists were suspected of the bombing.

In 1935, the BOI's name (the Bureau of Investigation) was changed to the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and it officially became a separate agency with the Department of Justice. J. Edgar Hoover, the Chief of the BOI, continued in his office and became the first Director of the FBI. The FBI's responsibility is to "detect and prosecute crimes against the United States".

In 1945, on January 9th, the (over 8 month long) Battle of Luzon began in the Philippines with the United States and Filipino forces attacking Japanese forces - with the intent to take back control of the Philippines. By March, the Allies had taken control of all of the strategically and economically important locations in the Philippines but pockets of resistance held out until the surrender of Japan in August.

In 1990, after 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela, the leader of the movement to end South African apartheid was released on February 11th 1990.