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Bessie Smith 1905 - 1970

Bessie Smith of Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi was born on December 28, 1905, and died at age 64 years old in July 1970.
Bessie Smith
Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi 39301
December 28, 1905
July 1970
Female
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    1905

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    December 28, 1905
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  • 07/dd
    1970

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    July 1970
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    Bessie Smith lived 8 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 64.
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In 1905, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, the German born physicist, Albert Einstein, proposed the Special Theory of Relativity: 1) that observers can never detect uniform motion except relative to other objects and that 2) unlike the velocity of massive objects, the speed of light is a constant and is the same for all observers independent of their constant velocity toward or away from the light source. Not such simple concepts that lead to the equation everyone now knows: E = mc2.
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In 1910, she was only 5 years old when the Mexican revolution began. Dictator Porfirio Díaz had ruled for 35 years and was nationally unpopular. When elections were held in 1910 and a rigged election kept Diaz in office. The uprising began - and lasted for another 10 years.
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