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Occidental hotel and bar San Francisco California in 1860’s Edmund Murphy worked there in 1860’s before Sacramento and utah

Edmund Henry Murphy

Edmund Henry Murphy

Edmund Henry Murphy's sons Edmund henry Murphy jr Charles Francis Murphy snd Arthur john Murphy (aj) in Salt Lake City pic has year on right side

Edmund Henry Murphy

Velda (Murphy) Tizzard

Velda (Murphy) Tizzard

Christopher Malcolm Murphy

Christopher Malcolm Murphy

Tyler John Murphy

Melissa Michelle Murphy

Matthew Robert Murphy

Dawn Michelle (LeFevre) Murphy

Dawn Michelle (LeFevre) Murphy

Sierra Elizabeth Murphy

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In 1915, in the year that Alex Murphy was born, the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.

In 1928, by the time he was merely 13 years old, aviatrix Amelia Earhart, age 31, became the first woman to fly solo across North America and back in August. In June, she had been part of a 3 man crew that flew the Atlantic Ocean but since she had no instrument training, she couldn't fly the plane - she kept the flight log. The North American flight became one of her many "firsts" as a female pilot.

In 1939, at the age of 24 years old, Alex was alive when in May, Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, reached a total international gross of $6.5 million which made it (to then) the most successful sound film of all time. First released in December 1937, it was originally dubbed "Disney's Folly" but the premiere received a standing ovation from the audience. At the 11th Academy Awards in February 1939, Walt Disney won an Academy Honorary Award - a full-size Oscar statuette and seven miniature ones - for Snow White.

In 1966, when he was 51 years old, on July 1st, Medicare became available after President Johnson signed into law the Medicare Act in 1965. President Truman had received the first Medicare card since he had been the first to propose national healthcare law. insurance.

In 1986, in the year of Alex Murphy's passing, 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.