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Donnie A Smoot (1895 - 1968)
Donnie A Smoot was born on December 13, 1895. He died on July 15, 1968 at age 72. We know that Donnie A Smoot had been residing in Akron, Summit County, Ohio 44301.
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Donnie A Smoot passed away on July 15, 1968 at 72 years of age. He was born on December 13, 1895. There is no information about Donnie's family or relationships. We know that Donnie A Smoot had been residing in Akron, Summit County, Ohio 44301.
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1895 - 1968 World Events
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In 1895, in the year that Donnie A Smoot was born, on March 15th, in County Tipperary, Ireland, Michael Cleary killed his wife of 8 years, Bridget, and burned her body. His defense was that his "wife" was a changeling that was left in his real wife's place when she was abducted by fairies. He was nonetheless convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter. He spent 15 years in prison.
In 1913, he was 18 years old when Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. It had previously taken 12 hours to assemble a whole vehicle - now it took only two hours and 30 minutes! Inspired by the production lines at flour mills, breweries, canneries and industrial bakeries, along with the disassembly of animal carcasses in Chicago’s meat-packing plants, Ford created moving belts for parts and the assembly line was born.
In 1929, Donnie was 34 years old when the St. Valentine's Day Massacre happened on February 14th. In Chicago, seven men from the North Side Irish gang were gunned down by Al Capone's South Side Italian gang at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street. Al Capone was making a successful move to take over Chicago's organized crime. But the St. Valentine's Day massacre also resulted in a public outcry against all gangsters.
In 1955, Donnie was 60 years old when in January, President Eisenhower sent direct aid to South Vietnam. In February, U.S. advisors were sent to train troops.
In 1968, in the year of Donnie A Smoot's passing, on April 4th, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader, was shot and killed by an assassin in Memphis. James Earl Ray was apprehended and plead guilty to shooting Dr. King. Ray died in jail in 1998.
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