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Bessie Smith 1905 - 1976

Bessie Smith of Illinois was born on May 15, 1905, and died at age 71 years old in September 1976.
Bessie Smith
Illinois 60650
May 15, 1905
September 1976
Female
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Bessie Smith's History: 1905 - 1976

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  • 05/15
    1905

    Birthday

    May 15, 1905
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  • 09/dd
    1976

    Death

    September 1976
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Bessie Smith lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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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 1921, when she was 16 years old, 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.
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