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Bessie Smith 1912 - 2000

Bessie Smith of Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL was born on October 4, 1912, and died at age 87 years old on August 14, 2000.
Bessie Smith
Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL 33607
October 4, 1912
August 14, 2000
Female
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    1912

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    October 4, 1912
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  • 08/14
    2000

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    August 14, 2000
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    Bessie Smith lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1912, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, the Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low with the help of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts in Great Britain. She said after a meeting with Baden-Powell, "I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight!" And she did.
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In 1939, by the time she was 27 years old, in May, Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, reached a total international gross of $6.5 million which made it (to then) the most successful sound film of all time. First released in December 1937, it was originally dubbed "Disney's Folly" but the premiere received a standing ovation from the audience. At the 11th Academy Awards in February 1939, Walt Disney won an Academy Honorary Award - a full-size Oscar statuette and seven miniature ones - for Snow White.
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