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Elizabeth Furdek 1910 - 1979

Elizabeth Furdek (1910 - 1979)
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Elizabeth Furdek
Last Known Residence
South Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin 53172
Born
June 14, 1910
Death
January 1979
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Elizabeth Furdek of South Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin was born on June 14, 1910, and died at age 68 years old in January 1979.

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South Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin 53172
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Elizabeth Furdek passed away at age 68 years old in January 1979. Elizabeth Furdek of South Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin was born on June 14, 1910.

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Elizabeth Furdek lived 7 years shorter than the average Furdek family member when she died at the age of 68.
The average age of a Furdek family member is 75.
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1910 - 1979 World Events

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In 1910, in the year that Elizabeth Furdek was born, Thomas Edison introduced his kinetophone, which he hoped would make "talkies" a reality. But the sound wasn't synchronized to the pictures and only 45 Kinetophones were made.

In 1922, at the age of merely 12 years old, Elizabeth was alive when on November 4th, British Egyptologists George Carnarvon and Howard Carter unearthed the first step leading to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. By the end of the month they had unearthed the steps and broken through the door into the intact tomb. This was the only tomb that had remained unlooted that had been found (and is, to date). Filled with gold, jewels, and ancient everyday items, the find was priceless - in terms of money and history.

In 1944, she was 34 years old when on December 16th, The Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes forest on the Western Front. Lasting for a little over a month, the battle began with a surprise attack by Germany on the Allied forces The U.S. suffered their highest casualties of any operation in World War II - 89,000 were casualties, around 8,600 killed - but Germany also severely depleted their resources and they couldn't be replaced.

In 1955, at the age of 45 years old, Elizabeth was alive when on September 30th, movie star James Dean, 24, died in a car accident. He was headed in his new Porsche 550 to a race in Salinas California when, traveling at 85 mph, he collided with a 1950 Ford Tudor, also speeding, driven by a 23 year old college student. Dean died, his passenger and the other driver survived.

In 1979, in the year of Elizabeth Furdek's passing, on March 28th, a partial nuclear meltdown occurred at the power plant at Three Mile Island Pennsylvania. Radiation leaked into the environment, resulting in a rating of 5 on a scale of 7 ("Accident With Wider Consequences") . It ended up costing $1 billion to clean up the site.

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