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Edith Weiman (1901 - 1983)

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Edith Weiman
1901 - 1983
Born
March 28, 1901
Death
June 1983
Last Known Residence
Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, Florida 33460
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Edith Weiman of Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, Florida was born on March 28, 1901, and died at age 82 years old in June 1983.
Updated: October 3, 2011
Biography ID: 7464939

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Edith Weiman passed away at age 82 years old in June 1983. Edith Weiman of Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, Florida was born on March 28, 1901.

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Edith Weiman lived 9 years longer than the average Weiman family member when she died at the age of 82.
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1901 - 1983 World Events

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In 1901, in the year that Edith Weiman was born, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.

In 1928, at the age of 27 years old, Edith was alive when 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.

In 1951, she was 50 years old when on April 5th, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (husband and wife) were sentenced to death for treason. They were executed on June 19th. American citizens, they were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Their two young sons were adopted by a high school teacher and his wife.

In 1963, at the age of 62 years old, Edith was alive when on November 22nd, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States when President John Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. Johnson was sworn in on the plane carrying Kennedy's body back to Washington D.C.

In 1983, in the year of Edith Weiman's passing, physicist Sally K. Ride, 32, became the first US woman astronaut in space as a crew member aboard space shuttle Challenger on June 18th. She was also the youngest (32) astronaut to go into space. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space in 1963.

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