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Beatrice Burkhead (1916 - 1987)

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Beatrice Burkhead
1916 - 1987
Born
August 25, 1916
Death
November 1987
Last Known Residence
Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania 18711
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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.
Updated: October 6, 2011
Biography ID: 25868725

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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, in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.

In 1921, at the age of merely 5 years old, Beatrice was alive when in May, the Emergency Quota Act - or Emergency Immigration Act - was passed. The law restricted the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year. It also established an immigration quota in which only 3 per cent of the total population of any ethnic group already in the USA in 1910, could be admitted to America after 1921. Although the Act was supposed to be temporary, it stayed in effect until 1965.

In 1957, at the age of 41 years old, Beatrice was alive when 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 1962, at the age of 46 years old, Beatrice was alive when on August 5th, actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe died in Brentwood California. She was ruled to have died from suicide due to a drug overdose. There has been controversy regarding the circumstances ever since, due to her relationships with Jack and Bobby Kennedy.

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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