Hugh Watson (1931 - 1972)
updated February 06, 2019
Hugh Watson was born on November 24, 1931. He died in October 1972 at 40 years old. We know that Hugh Watson had been residing in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey 07042.
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In 1931, in the year that Hugh Watson was born, 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 1943, he was merely 12 years old when on March 31st, the Broadway musical Oklahoma! opened. Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (the first of their string of successful collaborations), audiences loved it. The musical ran for 2,212 performances originally and was made into a movie in 1954.
In 1958, Hugh was 27 years old when on January 31st, Explorer I, the United States' answer to Sputnik I (and 2,) was launched. America had entered the Space Race. The first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, it remained in orbit until 1970.
In 1967, by the time he was 36 years old, on November 7th, President Johnson signed legislation passed by Congress that created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which would later become PBS and NPR. The legislation required CPB to operate with a "strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial nature".
In 1972, in the year of Hugh Watson's passing, on November 7th, Richard Nixon won re-election, amidst the dawning knowledge of the Watergate scandal, by 60.7% to anti-war candidate George McGovern's 37.5%.
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May 7, 1923 - Sep 21, 2001
Aug 14, 1916 - Jan 27, 1970
Nov 26, 1896 - March 1985
Jan 4, 1928 - Jan 15, 1998
Oct 18, 1932 - Nov 18, 2010
Apr 23, 1923 - Jul 5, 2009
Apr 4, 1921 - Sep 21, 2004
Oct 26, 1911 - Mar 29, 2006
Aug 22, 1940 - October 1977
Jul 21, 1942 - Jul 30, 2004
Apr 26, 1926 - Dec 15, 1991
Oct 21, 1935 - Jan 20, 1972
Nov 7, 1914 - October 1974
May 7, 1951 - Nov 13, 2000
Feb 21, 1871 - September 1967
Dec 14, 1953 - Oct 9, 2001
Jun 15, 1905 - Jul 2, 1998
Dec 29, 1948 - Feb 23, 2010
Aug 30, 1951 - February 1993
Feb 3, 1959 - Mar 4, 2004
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Nov 25, 1930 - Oct 5, 2004
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Dec 29, 1929 - Aug 19, 1985
Feb 11, 1930 - Aug 26, 1996
Oct 18, 1930 - January 1976
Mar 13, 1931 - October 1980
May 27, 1931 - Jun 26, 1987
May 19, 1931 - Jul 23, 2010
Jun 12, 1932 - December 1985
Jun 30, 1893 - February 1973
Dec 19, 1927 - June 1987
Mar 3, 1931 - May 4, 1994
Mar 2, 1934 - Dec 14, 2004
Dec 24, 1930 - Apr 28, 2011
Sep 15, 1926 - Apr 26, 2001
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