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Claribel Pershall (1891 - 1967)

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Claribel Pershall
1891 - 1967
Born
July 15, 1891
Death
December 1967
Last Known Residence
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia 30311
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Claribel Pershall of Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia was born on July 15, 1891, and died at age 76 years old in December 1967.
Updated: October 8, 2011
Biography ID: 38698538

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Claribel Pershall passed away at age 76 years old in December 1967. Claribel Pershall of Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia was born on July 15, 1891.

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Claribel Pershall lived 1 year longer than the average Pershall family member when she died at the age of 76.
The average age of a Pershall family member is 75.
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1891 - 1967 World Events

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In 1891, in the year that Claribel Pershall was born, from March 9th through the 12th, a blizzard hit the south and west of England. Called the Great Blizzard of 1891, it led to snow drifts of up to 15 feet and killed 200 people and 6,000 animals. Fourteen ships sank.

In 1901, Claribel was just 10 years old when Edward VII succeeded Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria of England had become Queen in 1837 and reigned until her death in 1901. Her 63 year reign was the longest in history prior to Elizabeth II who recently broke her record. The time during which she led the country was known as the Victorian era and she presided over great changes in the United Kingdom, including the expansion of the British Empire and the Industrial Revolution.

In 1926, by the time she was 35 years old, on November 15th, NBC was founded. It was the U.S.'s first major broadcast network. Ownership of the network was split between RCA (a majority partner at 50%), its founding corporate parent General Electric (which owned 30%), and Westinghouse (which owned the remaining 20%).

In 1956, by the time she was 65 years old, on May 20th, the U.S. tested the first hydrogen bomb dropped from a plane over Bikini Atoll. Previously, hydrogen bombs had only been tested on the ground. The Atomic Age moved forward.

In 1967, in the year of Claribel Pershall's passing, on November 7th, President Johnson signed legislation passed by Congress that created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which would later become PBS and NPR. The legislation required CPB to operate with a "strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial nature".

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