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Deanna D Sims

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Jearlean Sims

James Rodger Sims

Mary Lou Sims

Rev. Elizabeth Smith

Leslie George Sims gravesite

John & Dorothy (Richardson) Sims Marriage Certificate

Dorothy Esther Sims Birth Certificate

Samantha Monique Sims

Louella Sims Clark, West Virginia

Dorothy Sims, 1939

Helen Sims 1946 Salinas

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Jim Lafferty friends 1923a

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Della Frances Martin and Jasper Sims

Squire Sims

Matthew Jackson and Sally Ann Sims

Matthew Jackson and Sally Ann Sims

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In 1921, in the year that William Sims was born, in May, the Emergency Quota Act - or Emergency Immigration Act - was passed. The law restricted the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year. It also established an immigration quota in which only 3 per cent of the total population of any ethnic group already in the USA in 1910, could be admitted to America after 1921. Although the Act was supposed to be temporary, it stayed in effect until 1965.

In 1931, by the time he was merely 10 years old, 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 1946, by the time he was 25 years old, on July 4th, the Philippines gained independence from the United States. In 1964, Independence Day in the Philippines was moved from July 4th to June 12th at the insistence of nationalists and historians.

In 1952, William was 31 years old when on February 6th, George VI of England died from a coronary thrombosis and complications due to lung cancer. His eldest daughter, age 25, immediately ascended the throne as Elizabeth II and her coronation was on June 2 1953.

In 1971, in the year of William Sims's passing, in March, Intel shipped the first microprocessor to Busicom, a Japanese manufacturer of calculators. The microprocessor has since allowed computers to become smaller and faster, leading to smaller and more versatile handheld devices, home computers, and supercomputers.