Raymond Leroy Gibson JrAge: 421921–1963
- Name
- Raymond Leroy Gibson Jr
- Given names
- Raymond Leroy
- Surname
- Gibson
- Name suffix
- Jr
Birth | 16 February 1921 26 23 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA |
Australian History | 1921 Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
Australian History | 1922 (Age 10 months) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
Australian History | 1923 (Age 22 months) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
Australian History | 1926 (Age 4) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
Australian History | 1927 (Age 5) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
Australian History | 1928 (Age 6) Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
Australian History | 1929 (Age 7) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
Australian History | 1930 (Age 8) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
Australian History | 1931 (Age 9) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
Australian History | 1932 (Age 10) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
Australian History | 1933 (Age 11) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
Death of a paternal grandfather | 9 August 1936 (Age 15) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
paternal grandfather -
John Gibson
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Australian History | 1936 (Age 14) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
Australian History | 1937 (Age 15) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
Death of a paternal grandmother | 28 November 1938 (Age 17) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
paternal grandmother -
Kate Mc Cann
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Australian History | 1938 (Age 16) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
Australian History | 1939 (Age 17) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires |
Australian History | 1940 (Age 18) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean. |
Australian History | 1941 (Age 19) Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45. |
Australian History | 1942 (Age 20) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws. |
Australian History | 1943 (Age 21) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula. |
Australian History | 1944 (Age 22) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians |
Australian History | 1945 (Age 23) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time |
Birth of a daughter #1 | 4 March 1946 (Age 25) Los Angeles, California, USA
daughter -
Patricia Michele Gibson
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Australian History | 1946 (Age 24) Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council. |
Australian History | 1948 (Age 26) Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
Australian History | 1949 (Age 27) Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections. Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements. Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government. |
Australian History | 1950 (Age 28) Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party |
Australian History | 1951 (Age 29) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
Birth of a son #2 | 13 October 1952 (Age 31) Los Angeles, California, USA
son -
Raymond Lawrence Gibson
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Australian History | 1952 (Age 30) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
Australian History | 1954 (Age 32) Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
Australian History | 1955 (Age 33) Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill' |
Australian History | 1956 (Age 34) Note: Television in Australia is launched. Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage |
Australian History | 1957 (Age 35) Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success. |
Death of a father | 1 August 1959 (Age 38) West Covina, California, USA
father -
Raymond Leroy Gibson Sr
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Australian History | 1962 (Age 40) Note: Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT. Note: Malayan Insurgence ends |
Death | 13 December 1963 (Age 42) San Gabriel, California, USA |
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father |
Raymond Leroy Gibson Sr
Birth 27 October 1894 36 26 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Death 1 August 1959 (Age 64) West Covina, California, USA Loading...
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3 years mother |
Estella Marie Boehm
Birth 6 August 1897 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Death 1 July 1983 (Age 85) California, USA Loading...
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Raymond Leroy Gibson Jr
Birth 16 February 1921 26 23 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Death 13 December 1963 (Age 42) San Gabriel, California, USA Loading...
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Raymond Leroy Gibson Jr
Birth 16 February 1921 26 23 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Death 13 December 1963 (Age 42) San Gabriel, California, USA Loading...
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10 months wife |
Beverly Jane Mc Dermott
Birth 11 December 1921 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA Death April 1975 (Age 53) Boise, Idaho, USA Loading...
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Patricia Michele Gibson
Birth 4 March 1946 25 24 Los Angeles, California, USA Death August 1990 (Age 44) San Gabriel, California, USA Loading...
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#4 son |
Raymond Lawrence Gibson
Birth 13 October 1952 31 30 Los Angeles, California, USA Death September 1976 (Age 23) Loading...
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