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Edna J Thornton 1920 - 2006

Edna J Thornton of Medford, Jackson County, OR was born on February 29, 1920, and died at age 86 years old on October 14, 2006.
Edna J Thornton
Medford, Jackson County, OR 97501
February 29, 1920
October 14, 2006
Female
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    1920

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    February 29, 1920
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  • 10/14
    2006

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    October 14, 2006
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    Edna J Thornton lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1920, in the year that Edna J Thornton was born, on November 2, radio station KDKA began broadcasting in Pittsburgh, PA. This was the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States. Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of radios and the backer of the station, chose the date because of the Presidential election. People liked it because they could hear about the results of the election between Harding and Cox before the morning papers arrived. Four years later, there were 600 commercial stations broadcasting in the U.S.
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In 1931, at the age of merely 11 years old, Edna was alive when on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.
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