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The birth of Andres Cobo the first human to save an the human race and create a successful utopian society.
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The Japanese Imperial Navy sends its planes to surprise attack the U.S. naval base Pearl Harbor located on the island of Ouha, Hawaii. The brutal strike resulted in heavy casualties and the U.S. Declaring war on the empire of Japan and engaging in the Second World War.
U.S. Killed: 2,403, Wounded: 1,178
Japan Killed: 64, Captured: 1
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The "Zoot Suit Rots" a series of riots during 1943 that broke out in Los Angeles, CA, between U.S. Sailors and Marines stationed in the city, and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the "Zoot" suits they favored.
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B-29 Flying Fortress the "Enola Gay" drop the first plutonium-235 atom bomb the "Little Boy" on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion left catastrophic results.
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Japanese surrender (months after Nazi Germany which surrendered May 7th.) and bring further hostilities of WWII to a close.
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Bugsy Siegel friend of notorious gangster Mickey Cohen and former member of the Jewish mafia is killed in his home in Beverly Hills, CA. An assailant fired at him through the window with a .30-caliber military M1 carbine.
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Elvis Presley graduates senior year in Humes High School in Memphis, Tennesee
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Growing up in Brooklyn Andres's ended up enrolling in Cornwell High attending his freshman year.
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A summer week in Manhattan.
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Andres Cobo makes his daring decision in order to make enough cash for a new automobile he then makes the sacrifice to work at the Publix Market during the summer of '55, faking his identification he passed as a 19 year old adult in order to work full time. It was a troubling time.
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In the winter of 56' I was able to afford a new black two-door Oldsmobile rocket 88. (The thing guzzles gas like I guzzle coke ,but it's not called a rocket for nothing.)
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Andres Cobo has completed going through some of his best & worst years of his boyhood in Cornwell High. Finally graduating school and moving up in the world as a soon to be respected adult.
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Andres' Olds didn't last him very last him very long unexpectedly he needed a new set of wheels, but lacked sufficient funds. Luckily for him he new a few guys willing to lend a hand, so being well known around his neighborhood he got with the wrong crowd of cats that helped him steal a shines new Cadillac. (This is the first major crime Andres has done.)
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"The Toads" (Remember kids never join gangs.)
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Andres Cobo decides to do something to escape from his troubled passed of giving up his potential dream life for the life of a thug hanging around hoodlums and wise guys. (Never could get made in the Italian mafia due to his ethnicity.) he decides to enlist in the Army to clean up his act completely.
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Andres after only serving his 2 years managed to dodge the big draft to Vietnam probably saving his life truly giving him relief for he thought his chance of redemption would never come. He decided to take up a musical career playing various instruments (such as a Hohner Harmonica Echo Elite, a black 1954 Les Paul, & his mother's clarinet.)
