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Charlie Thomas Short (1938 - 2010)

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Charlie Thomas Short
1938 - 2010
Born
September 8, 1938
Mount Airy, North Carolina, 27030, United States
Death
January 20, 2010
Denton, North Carolina, United States
Summary
Charlie Thomas Short was born on September 8, 1938 in Mount Airy, North Carolina United States, and died at age 71 years old on January 20, 2010 in Denton. Charlie Short was buried in Asheboro, Randolph County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charlie Thomas Short.
Updated: December 28, 2020
Biography ID: 192803122

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Charlie Thomas Short
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September 8, 1938
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Mount Airy, North Carolina 27030, United States
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January 20, 2010
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heart failure
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Denton, North Carolina United States
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Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina United States
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Charlie Short passed away at age 71 years old on January 20, 2010 in Denton, and was buried in Asheboro, Randolph County. Charlie Thomas Short was born on September 8, 1938 in Mount Airy, North Carolina United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charlie Thomas Short.

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Charlie Thomas Short lived exactly as long as the average Short family member when he died at the age of 71.
The average age of a Short family member is 71.
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1938 - 2010 World Events

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In 1938, in the year that Charlie Thomas Short was born, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."

In 1949, he was just 11 years old when on January 25th, the first Emmy Awards (for television) were handed out in Los Angeles. Shirley Dinsdale won for the Most Outstanding Television Personality and Pantomime Quiz Time earned an Emmy for the Most Popular Television Program.

In 1955, when he was 17 years old, in January, President Eisenhower sent direct aid to South Vietnam. In February, U.S. advisors were sent to train troops.

In 1982, by the time he was 44 years old, on June 30th, time ran out on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The Amendment had only received 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. First sent to the states in 1972, the Amendment stated that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex".

In 1996, Charlie was 58 years old when on April 3rd, Theodore Kaczynski (nicknamed the Unabomber) was arrested. His mailed or hand-delivered bombs, sent between 1978 and 1995, killed three people and injured 23 others. Diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, Kaczynski is serving 8 life sentences without the possibility of parole.

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