Alexander Rae Baldwin Jr.
(1927 - 1983)
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York United States
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania United States
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Alexander Rae Baldwin Jr. & Carolyn Newcomb Baldwin
c. 1954 - April 13, 1983Cause of Separation: Death
Amityville, Suffolk County, NY, 11701, United States
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In 1927, in the year that Alexander Rae Baldwin Jr. was born, in September, the Columbia Broadcasting System (later called CBS) became the second national radio network in the U.S. The first broadcast was a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from radio station WOR in Newark, New Jersey.
In 1943, at the age of 16 years old, Alexander was alive when on March 31st, the Broadway musical Oklahoma! opened. Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (the first of their string of successful collaborations), audiences loved it. The musical ran for 2,212 performances originally and was made into a movie in 1954.
In 1960, by the time he was 33 years old, on September 26th, the first televised debate for a Presidential campaign in the United States - Kennedy vs Nixon - was held. Seventy million people watched the debate on TV. The debate pre-empted the very popular Andy Griffith Show.
In 1972, when he was 45 years old, on September 5th, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, with the assistance of German neo-nazis, kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich. The attackers crept into the Olympic Village and abducted the athletes while they were sleeping. A German policeman was also killed.
In 1983, in the year of Alexander Rae Baldwin Jr.'s passing, physicist Sally K. Ride, 32, became the first US woman astronaut in space as a crew member aboard space shuttle Challenger on June 18th. She was also the youngest (32) astronaut to go into space. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space in 1963.
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