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Bessie Smith 1905 - 1996

Bessie Smith of Cheraw, Chesterfield County, SC was born on June 8, 1905, and died at age 90 years old in January 1996.
Bessie Smith
Cheraw, Chesterfield County, SC 29520
June 8, 1905
January 1996
Female
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Bessie Smith's History: 1905 - 1996

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  • 06/8
    1905

    Birthday

    June 8, 1905
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  • 01/dd
    1996

    Death

    January 1996
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    Bessie Smith lived 18 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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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 1913, Bessie was merely 8 years old when ratified in February the 16th Amendment, establishing a Federal income tax, became law. Previously, customs duties (tariffs) and excise taxes were the primary sources of federal revenue. With the passage of the 16th Amendment, incomes of couples exceeding $4,000, as well as those of single persons earning $3,000 or more, were subject to a 1% Federal tax (that would be about $98,000 and $74,000 now). Rates rose to 7% for incomes over half a million dollars. Less than 1% of the population was subject to income tax.
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