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Edith Wyly (1920 - 2008)

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Edith Wyly
1920 - 2008
Born
March 20, 1920
Death
March 19, 2008
Last Known Residence
Brandon, Hillsborough County, Florida 33511
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Edith Wyly of Brandon, Hillsborough County, Florida was born on March 20, 1920, and died at age 87 years old on March 19, 2008.
Updated: October 7, 2011
Biography ID: 28990797

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Brandon, Hillsborough County, Florida 33511
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Edith Wyly passed away at age 87 years old on March 19, 2008. Edith Wyly of Brandon, Hillsborough County, Florida was born on March 20, 1920.

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Edith Wyly lived 12 years longer than the average Wyly family member when she died at the age of 87.
The average age of a Wyly family member is 75.
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In 1920, in the year that Edith Wyly was born, the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, passed both Houses of Congress and was sent to the States to ratify. In August, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the Amendment and it became law eight days later. Mississippi ratified it in 1984.

In 1938, at the age of 18 years old, Edith was alive when 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 1954, at the age of 34 years old, Edith was alive when from April 22 through June 17th, the Army v. McCarthy hearings were held. The U.S. Army accused Roy Cohn (chief counsel to Senator McCarthy and later trusted mentor of Donald Trump) of blackmail. McCarthy and Cohn accused the U.S. Army of harboring communists. The Army allegations were found to be true. The U.S. Senate later censured McCarthy.

In 1988, she was 68 years old when on December 21st, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie Scotland. The explosion killed all 259 people on board and another 11 on the ground. The flight had left Heathrow Airport in London less than an hour before, on its way to New York. After an exhaustive (and long) investigation it came to be believed that two individuals from Libya had planted the bomb.

In 1995, she was 75 years old when on May 19th, the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil - before 9/11 - took place in Oklahoma City. A truck bomb went off outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown - killing 68 people, injuring more than 680 others, and destroying one-third of the building. The most disturbing images were of children - a daycare center was hit by the bomb. The deadliest incident of domestic terrorism ever, Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and Michael Fortier were convicted of the bombing.

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