Cesarina Maddalena P Ruffo (1903 - 1928)

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Pietro Tirelli

Francesca Duina Tirelli

Cesarina Maddalena P Ruffo

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Pietro Tirelli

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Francesca Duina Tirelli

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Cesarina Maddalena P Ruffo & Francesco Antonio Ruffo

Cesarina Maddalena P Ruffo

Francesco Antonio Ruffo

Ada Francesca Ruffo

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Francesco Antonio Ruffo

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Ada Francesca Ruffo

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In 1903, in the year that Cesarina Maddalena P Ruffo was born, the first World Series of American baseball was played between October 1st and 13th. The Boston Americans of the American League played the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League. Boston came back from a three game to one deficit, winning the final four games to capture the title - such a large comeback wouldn't be repeated by a team until 1925. (A total of eight games were played.)

In 1910, at the age of just 7 years old, Cesarina was alive when Halley's comet, which returns past the earth every 75 - 76 years was observed photographically for the first time. Two fortuitous events occurred - photography had been invented since the last time the comet had passed and the comet was relatively close. There was panic because one astronomer claimed that the gas from its tail "would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet." People bought gas masks, "anti-comet pills" and "anti-comet umbrellas".

In 1914, when she was only 11 years old, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.

In 1928, in the year of Cesarina Maddalena P Ruffo's passing, 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.