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Bessie Smith 1885 - 1973

Bessie Smith of Lancaster, Lancaster County, PA was born on August 29, 1885, and died at age 88 years old in November 1973.
Bessie Smith
Lancaster, Lancaster County, PA 17603
August 29, 1885
November 1973
Female
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    1885

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    August 29, 1885
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    1973

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    November 1973
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    Bessie Smith lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1885, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, on January 24th, the Fenians - Irish Nationalists - set off dynamite bombs in the House of Commons chamber, Westminster Hall, and the Tower of London. Four civilians and two policemen were injured.
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In 1949, by the time she was 64 years old, on January 25th, the first Emmy Awards (for television) were handed out in Los Angeles. Shirley Dinsdale won for the Most Outstanding Television Personality and Pantomime Quiz Time earned an Emmy for the Most Popular Television Program.
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