Willie L Massey (1948 - 2006)

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Alden Clyde Massey Military newspaper

Matt and Sussie N Massey

Danna Rena Towns Taylor Massey

Danna Rena Towns Taylor Massey

Gladys L. Massey

Gladys L. Massey

Susie (Massey ) and Matt West

Gerald Massey-Sharpe

Harry W Massey

Harold K Massey family

Bernard Massey, Kansas, 1947

Honorable William Fergusoon Massey

Hutson 50th Anniversary

Massey Group

Oliver Lacy Crump

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In 1948, in the year that Willie L Massey was born, on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. The man, Nathuram Godse, shot Gandhi 3 times. He died immediately. The shooter was tried, convicted, and hung in November 1949.

In 1959, by the time he was only 11 years old, on January 3rd, Alaska became the 49th state of the United States and the first state not a part of the contiguous United States. The flag was changed to display 49 stars.

In 1975, Willie was 27 years old when in January, Popular Mechanics featured the Altair 8800 on it's cover. The Altair home computer kit allowed consumers to build and program their own personal computers. Thousands were sold in the first month.

In 1986, when he was 38 years old, on January 28th, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch. All seven crew members died. The cause of the explosion was later found to be a failed O-ring. The O-ring failure was due to the unusually cold conditions at Cape Canaveral.

In 1991, he was 43 years old when on December 25th, the Soviet Union flag was lowered and replaced by the Russian tricolor flag. It was the end of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union and Boris Yeltsin became President of the Russian Republic.