John Cole (1944 - 2010)

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C.J. Cole

Maj. Edward Ball Cole

Maxine (Cole) and Fredrick Everett Amelang

Clinton William Cole

Clinton Carol Cole - Obituary

Devere William Cole

Delila Cole

Jack Cole & Marilyn Monroe

Vivian Cole

Cole Family 1982

Kindergarden Picture About 1895

Kindergarden Picture, 1895, Back

Children of Erastus & Jeanette (Caswell) Cole

Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole

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In 1944, in the year that John Cole was born, on December 16th, The Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes forest on the Western Front. Lasting for a little over a month, the battle began with a surprise attack by Germany on the Allied forces The U.S. suffered their highest casualties of any operation in World War II - 89,000 were casualties, around 8,600 killed - but Germany also severely depleted their resources and they couldn't be replaced.

In 1950, by the time he was just 6 years old, on October 2, Charlie Brown appeared in the first Peanuts comic strip - created by Charles Schultz - and he was the only character in that strip. That year, Schultz said that Charlie was 4 years old, but Charlie aged a bit through the years.

In 1963, at the age of 19 years old, John was alive when the British Secretary of War, 46 year old John Profumo ,was forced to resign when he lied about an affair with 19 year old Christine Keeler. Keeler was also involved with the Soviet naval attaché and charges of espionage were feared. No proof of spying was ever found.

In 1976, he was 32 years old when 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 1990, he was 46 years old when after 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela, the leader of the movement to end South African apartheid was released on February 11th 1990.