Catherine Martha Black (1878 - 1949)

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Black James Murphy Black

Catherine Anne Cunningham Black

Catherine Martha Black

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Black James Murphy Black

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Catherine Anne Cunningham Black

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Cornelia Cathrina (Walraven) Black

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Hattie McDaniel and Shirley Temple.

Albert Ramsay Black

Shirley Temple Black

Walter Ivan Smeltzer

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Karen Black, Five Easy Pieces.

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Karen Black

Karen Black

Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black

Dick Moore and Shirley Temple

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In 1878, in the year that Catherine Martha Black was born, on September 12th, Cleopatra's Needle, built in Egypt in 1450 B.C. and transported to England, was erected in London. It had arrived in England on January 21st, having been towed by boat.

In 1880, she was just 2 years old when on February 4th, five members of one family in Ontario, Canada were killed and their farm was burned by a mob. Called the Black Donnelly Massacre, the Irish family had been feuding with other citizens of the town. No one was ever convicted.

In 1905, by the time she was 27 years old, 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.

In 1928, when she was 50 years old, aviatrix Amelia Earhart, age 31, became the first woman to fly solo across North America and back in August. In June, she had been part of a 3 man crew that flew the Atlantic Ocean but since she had no instrument training, she couldn't fly the plane - she kept the flight log. The North American flight became one of her many "firsts" as a female pilot.

In 1949, in the year of Catherine Martha Black's passing, comedian Milton Berle hosted the first telethon show. It raised $1,100,000 for cancer research and lasted 16 hours. The next day, newspapers, in writing about the event, first used the word "telethon."