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Desire Valcourt (1893 - 1982)

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Desire Valcourt
1893 - 1982
Born
October 3, 1893
Death
April 1982
Last Known Residence
Kennebunk, York County, Maine 04043
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Desire Valcourt of Kennebunk, York County, Maine was born on October 3, 1893, and died at age 88 years old in April 1982.
Updated: October 2, 2011
Biography ID: 3328854

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Desire Valcourt passed away at age 88 years old in April 1982. Desire Valcourt of Kennebunk, York County, Maine was born on October 3, 1893.

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Desire Valcourt lived 19 years longer than the average Valcourt family member when she died at the age of 88.
The average age of a Valcourt family member is 69.
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1893 - 1982 World Events

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In 1893, in the year that Desire Valcourt was born, on May 5th, a crash on the New York Stock Exchange started a depression that lasted 4 years. It was the beginning of the Panic of 1893.

In 1939, she was 46 years old when 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.

In 1950, at the age of 57 years old, Desire was alive when on October 2, Charlie Brown appeared in the first Peanuts comic strip - created by Charles Schultz - and he was the only character in that strip. That year, Schultz said that Charlie was 4 years old, but Charlie aged a bit through the years.

In 1960, when she was 67 years old, on May 1st, an American CIA U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the Soviet Union. Powers ejected and survived but was captured. The U.S. claimed that the U-2 was a "weather plane" but Powers was convicted in the Soviet Union of espionage. He was released in 1962 after 1 year, 9 months and 10 days in prison.

In 1982, in the year of Desire Valcourt's passing, 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".

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