Bessie Heckman (1888 - 1978)

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Stephanie Nicole Heckman

Added: Nov 03, 2018

Heckman family outing

Added: Apr 15, 2018

Albert John Heckman

Added: Jan 26, 2017

Mabel and Norman Mort

Added: Dec 15, 2016

Mabel (Heckman) Mort

Added: Dec 15, 2016

Heckman Sisters

Added: Dec 04, 2016

James and Anna Wise

Added: Dec 04, 2016

Nancy Jane (Wise) Heckman

Added: Nov 28, 2016

Dora and Ronald Heckman

Added: Sep 29, 2016

John Heckman

Added: Sep 28, 2016

Annie & Mary Heckman

Added: Sep 26, 2016

John Heckman, Canada

Added: Sep 26, 2016

Gertrude and Thelma Heckman

Added: Sep 26, 2016

Joseph Heckman and friend

Added: Sep 26, 2016

Heckman family, 1970

Added: Sep 26, 2016

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In 1888, in the year that Bessie Heckman 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 1891, at the age of merely 3 years old, Bessie was alive when on March 14th, a lynch mob stormed the Old Parish Prison. The mob lynched 11 of the 19 Italians who were arrested for - but found to be innocent of - the murder of New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy.

In 1915, she was 27 years old when Audrey Munson, playing a model for a sculptor in the film "Inspiration", became the first actress to shed her clothes on screen. Fearing that banning the film would mean that censors would also have to "ban Renaissance art" the film was released, with Munson in the nude scenes and a stand-in doing the acting. (Munson had previously been "America's First Supermodel" and posed nude as the model for many famous artworks.) The film was a hit with audiences.

In 1944, at the age of 56 years old, Bessie was alive when on June 22nd, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, called the G.I. Bill, was signed into law, pushed through by the veteran's organizations. Benefits provided for veterans to return to school (high school, vocational school, or college), obtain low interest home mortgages and low interest business loans, and (if needed) one year of unemployment insurance. Since most returning vets immediately found work, less than 20% of the unemployment benefits were distributed.

In 1978, in the year of Bessie Heckman's passing, on July 25th, Louise Brown, the first "test-tube baby", was born at Oldham Hospital in London. Louise was conceived through IVF (in vitro fertilization), a controversial and experimental procedure at the time.