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Headstons Reads 1842 - 1943
Melissa would have seen the US Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, World War I, the Great Depression, and the first part of World War II. When she was born, travel was by horseback or wagon - trains were just being developed. Telegraph was just being developed. Boats and ships were mainly sail powered, but steam was being used.
She would have seen the development of cars and planes, but not jets. Radios would have vacuum tubes and there would have been very limited television. Telephones would have an operator or rotary dial.
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Events for her birth year of 1842:
John Tyler is President of the United States
1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania
Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC
1st known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Wash DC
1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed
Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
Ether was used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long
1st edition of London Illustrated News
John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
Natchez Mississippi, hit by tornado; about 500 die
US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
Gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
The University of Notre Dame is founded.
NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
US recognizes independence of Hawaii
Famous Births:
William James, US, psychologist/philosopher
Ulric Dahlgren, Col (Union volunteers)
John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator
Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist
Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)
Famous Deaths in 1842:
Constanze Mozart, wife of W.A. Mozart
Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor
Letitia Tyler, Pres Tyler's (1841-45) wife, dies at 51
Philip Spencer, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged
Grace Darling, English heroine
Pierre, earl the Cambronne, Fren general (Waterloo, Elba)
Events of her passing in 1943:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be in his third term as President.
Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
1st US pres to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis
US rations bread & metal
Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach
1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)
4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio's "Your Hit Parade"
Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle
General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe
Phil Wrigley & B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League
1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott)
Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!," premieres in NYC
Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
German & Italian forces in Africa surrender
The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
1st jet fighter is tested
US forbid racial discrimination in war industry
A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.
FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)
Lt John F Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
Gen Patton slaps a US GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice
Italy surrenders to Allies in WW II
Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
Famous Birthdays in 1943:
Jim Croce, American singer
Janis Joplin, Port Arthur Tx, bluesy rock singer
Sharon Tate, Dallas Tx, actress
Joe Pesci, Newark NJ, actor
"Mama" Cass Elliot, actress
Bobby Fischer, US, world chess champion
Bob Woodward, American journalist
Eric Idle, England, comedian/actor (Monty Python)
John Major, British PM (C, 1990-97)
Joe Namath, PA, NFL QB (NY Jets), $400,000 man (1969 Superbowl)
William Calley, American war criminal
Barry Manilow, American musician
Burt Rutan, American aerospace engineer
Arthur Ashe, tennis pro (1968 US Open, 1975 Wimbledon)
William Bennett, US Secretary of Education (1985-88)/drug tsar
Jean Claude Killy, France, skier (Olympic-3 golds-1968)
Famous Deaths in 1943:
George Washington Carver, famous black scientist, dies at 81
Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86
Frank Nitti, American gangster
I Yamamoto, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo & Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 50
Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43), dies at 62
Boris III, of Saksen-Coburg, King of Bulgaria (1918-43), dies
Thomas W "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist, dies at 39 in KC Missouri
Beatrix Potter, English writer (b. 1866)