
In 1972, in the year of Hilda Boyd's passing, on November 7th, Richard Nixon won re-election, amidst the dawning knowledge of the Watergate scandal, by 60.7% to anti-war candidate George McGovern's 37.5%. Kyle Lamb Published: DecemQuincy High School under construction, September 10th, 2019 Quincy School District Superintendent John Boyd will be leaving the district to join Evergreen Public Schools in Vancouver, Washington in the near future. Sputnik I was only 23 inches in diameter and had no tracking equipment, only 4 antennas, but it had a big impact. In 1957, by the time she was 57 years old, on October 4th, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first man made earth-orbiting satellite - and triggered the Space Race. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed.

The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. In 1943, by the time she was 43 years old, on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. There was fierce debate about making "The Star Spangled Banner" the national anthem - Southerners and veterans organizations supported it, pacifists and educators opposed it. Other songs had previously been used - among them, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", "God Bless America", and "America the Beautiful".

In 1931, at the age of 31 years old, Hilda was alive when in March, “The Star Spangled Banner” officially became the national anthem by congressional resolution. Matisse and those who followed his example were called "beasts" because of the bold colors that they used in their artwork.) (In French, les Fauves means "the wild beasts". While the fauvist movement declined in popularity, Matisse did not and he went on to create many more works of art and even a museum for his work, 2 years before his death in 1954. Matisse was fond of bright, vibrant colors and used them in his paintings - contrary to the muted use of color previously. Only lasting a few years in popularity (ending around 1904), fauvism was in many ways the beginning of modern art. Bruce C Eberhard, John S Eberhard, Debra L Grisham, Gerald L Grisham, Benita Louann Wood. Quincy Boyd is a resident of Oklahoma City. In 1900, in the year that Hilda Boyd was born, artist Henri Matisse, born in 1869 in France, began the fauvist movement. Lookup the home address and phone 3342145651 and other contact details for this person. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Hilda's lifetime.
