Beryl Alberta Rigg (1888 - 1952)

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Birdsey John Rigg

Ionise Humphrey Rigg

Beryl Alberta Rigg

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Birdsey John Rigg

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Ionise Humphrey Rigg

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Diana Rigg The Avengers reunion

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Diana Rigg, Mrs. Bradley

Diana Rigg, Avengers

Louise Marie Pomrenke and Lisa Marie Rigg

Carol and Norman E Pomrenke

Louise Pomrenke and Lisa Pomrenke

Lisa Marie Rigg Pomrenke

Jeffery Scott Rigg

Lisa Marie (Peterson) Rigg

Lisa Marie (Peterson) Rigg

Lisa and Louise Marie Pomrenke

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In 1888, in the year that Beryl Alberta Rigg was born, on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!

In 1893, she was only 5 years old when on February 1st, Thomas Edison's motion picture studio on his laboratory grounds in West Orange New Jersey was completed. The studio was called "Black Maria" and the first movie made and viewed in it was of 3 people pretending to be blacksmiths.

In 1903, at the age of just 15 years old, Beryl was alive when two brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, flew the first powered heavier-than-air plane. They flew 4 times in one day - the longest flight lasting 59 seconds and a little over 852 feet. While the brothers had notified several newspapers of their attempt, only one - a local paper - covered it. After their 4th flight, a gust of wind caught the plane, turned it over, and totaled it.

In 1939, by the time she was 51 years old, 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 1952, in the year of Beryl Alberta Rigg's passing, on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.