Luther Gill (1924 - 1987)

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Ida Mae (Littljohn) Gill

Donald Gill

Donald Gill

George Gill Jr and Melissa Frameli

Charles Elliott Gill

Charles Elliott Gill

Bernard Clark Gill

Sarah Gill Krushka

Robert and Wilma Lessig

Callie Ballard's "Jimmy"

Virginia Marie (Wheeler) Gill

Samuel Bailey Gill Jr

Sarah Ann McBride & Samuel Bailey Gill, Jr.

Raymond Richardson Aviation Mechanics, WWII Georgia

WPA Administrator Corrington Gill

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In 1924, in the year that Luther Gill was born, Macy's department store in New York held its first "Thanksgiving parade" on November 27th at 9a - during church services but leaving plenty of time to attend the big football game between Syracuse and Columbia universities. The parade was held as a way to promote the opening of the “World’s Largest Store” and its 1 million square feet of retail space in Manhattan’s Herald Square. The parade was 6 miles long and included floats, Macy's employees dressed as clowns, cowboys, and sword-wielding knights, and animals from Central Park Zoo. Santa Claus, of course, brought up the rear - opening the Christmas shopping season for Macy's.

In 1939, at the age of just 15 years old, Luther was alive when in May, Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, reached a total international gross of $6.5 million which made it (to then) the most successful sound film of all time. First released in December 1937, it was originally dubbed "Disney's Folly" but the premiere received a standing ovation from the audience. At the 11th Academy Awards in February 1939, Walt Disney won an Academy Honorary Award - a full-size Oscar statuette and seven miniature ones - for Snow White.

In 1951, when he was 27 years old, on February 27th, the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution (which limited the number of terms a president may serve to two) was ratified by 36 states, making it a part of the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment was both a reaction to the 4 term Roosevelt presidency and also the recognition of a long-standing tradition in American politics.

In 1977, by the time he was 53 years old, on January 20th, Jimmy Carter became the 39th President of the United States. Running against incumbent Gerald Ford, he won 50.1% of the popular vote to Ford's 48.0%. He was elected to only one term.

In 1987, in the year of Luther Gill's passing, was the first time that a criminal in the United States - a serial rapist - was convicted through the use of DNA evidence.