Anna Edith (Amelang) Smith (1909 - 1960)

Anna's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Smith family tree.

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Anna's Family

Bessie Lillian Dyer Amelang

Robert Edward Amelang

William Franklin Amelang Marie Fay (Amelang) Boas Mary Lucille (Amelang ) Skinner Anna Edith (Amelang) Smith

Albert Edward Amelang Carl Henry Amelang Fredrick Everett Amelang Betty Jean (Amelang) Fowler

Parents:

Bessie Lillian Dyer Amelang

Mar 11, 1885 - Sep 1, 1974

Robert Edward Amelang

Aug 22, 1881 - Apr 8, 1956

Siblings:

Albert Edward Amelang

Jul 26, 1906 - Jun 9, 2001

William Franklin Amelang

1912 - Nov 4, 1980

Carl Henry Amelang

Mar 3, 1916 - May 2, 1995

Marie Fay (Amelang) Boas

May 19, 1919 - Apr 1, 2007

Fredrick Everett Amelang

Apr 11, 1922 - Sep 27, 2002

Mary Lucille (Amelang ) Skinner

Feb 3, 1928 - Unknown

Betty Jean (Amelang) Fowler

Aug 20, 1929 - Feb 5, 2019

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Added: Feb 09, 2019

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In 1909, in the year that Anna Edith (Amelang) Smith was born, Polish physician and medical researcher Paul Ehrlich found a cure for syphilis, which was a prevalent (but undiscussed) disease. He found that an arsenic compound completely cured syphilis within 3 weeks.

In 1933, she was 24 years old when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.

In 1948, she was 39 years old when on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. The man, Nathuram Godse, shot Gandhi 3 times. He died immediately. The shooter was tried, convicted, and hung in November 1949.

In 1957, by the time she was 48 years old, on October 4th, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first man made earth-orbiting satellite - and triggered the Space Race. Sputnik I was only 23 inches in diameter and had no tracking equipment, only 4 antennas, but it had a big impact.

In 1960, in the year of Anna Edith (Amelang) Smith's passing, 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.