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Eleanor Spina (1917 - 1976)

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Eleanor Spina
1917 - 1976
Born
August 20, 1917
Death
February 1976
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Eleanor Spina was born on August 20, 1917, and died at age 58 years old in February 1976. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Eleanor Spina.
Updated: October 3, 2011
Biography ID: 4104857

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Eleanor Spina passed away at age 58 years old in February 1976. Eleanor Spina was born on August 20, 1917. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Eleanor Spina.

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Eleanor Spina lived 16 years shorter than the average Spina family member when she died at the age of 58.
The average age of a Spina family member is 74.
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1917 - 1976 World Events

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In 1917, in the year that Eleanor Spina was born, Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari was convicted and executed as a German spy. Since Mata Hari, born Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" MacLeod, was a citizen of the Netherlands (which remained neutral in World War 1), she could travel freely in Europe. Her travels (and her romantic entanglements) raised suspicion and she was arrested by the French and found guilty. There is still controversy about her guilt although her name has become synonymous with a seductive female spy.

In 1920, she was merely 3 years old when Italian born factory worker Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti were picked up by police on May 5th in connection with the April 15th murder and robbery of a guard and a paymaster at the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in South Braintree, Mass. Although in later years they were thought to be innocent, they were anarchists and were convicted of the crime and put to death.

In 1950, she was 33 years old when in February, Joe McCarthy gave a speech alleging that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who worked in the State Department. He went on to chair a committee that investigated not only the State Department but also the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the Voice of America, and the U.S. Army for communist spies - until he was condemned by the U.S. Senate in 1954.

In 1965, Eleanor was 48 years old when on March 8th, the first US combat troops arrived in Vietnam. The 3500 Marines joined 23,000 "advisors" already in South Vietnam. By the end of the year, 190,000 American soldiers were in the country.

In 1976, in the year of Eleanor Spina's passing, on August 4th, a mysterious illness struck an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. Within a week, 25 people had died and 130 people had been hospitalized. It was the first known instance of what came to be called "Legionnaires Disease."

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