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Beatrice Burkhead 1916 - 1987

Beatrice Burkhead (1916 - 1987)
Full legal name
Beatrice Burkhead
Last Known Residence
Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania 18711
Born
August 25, 1916
Death
November 1987
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Beatrice Burkhead of Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania was born on August 25, 1916, and died at age 71 years old in November 1987.

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Beatrice Burkhead passed away at age 71 years old in November 1987. Beatrice Burkhead of Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania was born on August 25, 1916.

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Beatrice Burkhead lived 1 years shorter than the average Burkhead family member when she died at the age of 71.
The average age of a Burkhead family member is 72.
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1916 - 1987 World Events

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In 1916, in the year that Beatrice Burkhead was born, the Battle of Verdun was fought from February through December. It was the largest and longest battle of World War I, lasting 303 days. The original estimates were 714,231 casualties - 377,231 French and 337,000 German, an average of 70,000 casualties a month. Current estimates are even larger. The Battle of the Somme was also fought from July through September of the same year. Original estimates were 485,000 British and French casualties and 630,000 German casualties.

In 1923, at the age of just 7 years old, Beatrice was alive when Harlem's Cotton Club opened in New York City. Owned by a bootlegger and gangster, it was a 700 seat speakeasy that catered to a "white only" clientele. But most of the entertainers were African-American and featured some of the best entertainers of the time such as Lena Horne, the Nicholas Brothers, Ethel Waters, and Cab Calloway.

In 1934, when she was 18 years old, on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.

In 1969, Beatrice was 53 years old when on July 20th, the first men walked on the moon. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. both walked on the moon but it was Armstrong who first stepped on the moon. They fulfilled the promise of President Kennedy's commitment in 1961 to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade.

In 1987, in the year of Beatrice Burkhead's passing, was the first time that a criminal in the United States - a serial rapist - was convicted through the use of DNA evidence.

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