Robert Williams (born 1933)

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Thomas Williams

Added: Jul 05, 2020

Hugh Williams

Added: Jul 05, 2020

Orell Williams Jr

Added: Jun 29, 2020

Emily Ann (Williams) Moulsdale

Added: May 07, 2020

Williams family

Added: Apr 14, 2020

Dorothy Edwina W. Watford Williams

Added: Mar 24, 2020

Ronny Williams

Added: Mar 17, 2020

Brothers All Privates First Class

Added: Mar 06, 2020

Dale Eugene Williams

Added: Feb 15, 2020

Myrna Loy

Added: Feb 02, 2020

Myrna Loy

Added: Feb 02, 2020

James Walter Williams Family

Added: Jan 12, 2020

Clara Agnes (Laughrey) Williams Rothermel Lundy

Added: Jan 04, 2020

From left: Arthur Edward Gentry, Anthony Costanza, and Frederick Eugene Harrison (born Williams)

Added: Nov 19, 2019

Herbert Emrys Williams

Added: Nov 17, 2019

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In 1933, in the year that Robert Williams was born, the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.

In 1943, 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 1969, on July 20th, the first men walked on the moon. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. both walked on the moon but it was Armstrong who first stepped on the moon. They fulfilled the promise of President Kennedy's commitment in 1961 to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade.

In 1977, on January 21st, President Carter pardoned "draft dodgers" - men who avoided the draft during the Vietnam War. He fulfilled a campaign promise with the pardon. But it only applied to civilian evaders - the estimated 500,000 to 1 million active-duty personnel who went AWOL were not included.

In 1980, on December 8th, ex-Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in front of his home - the Dakota - in New York City. Chapman was found guilty of murder and still remains in jail.