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Estelle Wyly (1909 - 1973)

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Estelle Wyly
1909 - 1973
Born
May 29, 1909
Death
January 1973
Last Known Residence
Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina 28052
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Estelle Wyly of Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina was born on May 29, 1909, and died at age 63 years old in January 1973.
Updated: October 7, 2011
Biography ID: 31866859

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Estelle Wyly passed away at age 63 years old in January 1973. Estelle Wyly of Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina was born on May 29, 1909.

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Estelle Wyly lived 12 years shorter than the average Wyly family member when she died at the age of 63.
The average age of a Wyly family member is 75.
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1909 - 1973 World Events

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In 1909, in the year that Estelle Wyly was born, the NAACP was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois. The organization focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day - which included lynching and segregation in schools. The goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution.

In 1910, she was merely 1 year old when 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 1920, by the time she was only 11 years old, 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.

In 1934, she was 25 years old when on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.

In 1973, in the year of Estelle Wyly's passing, on January 28th, the Paris Peace Accord was signed - supposedly ending the Vietnam War. Hostilities continued between North and South Vietnam and the U.S. continued to bomb. But by August 15, 1973, 95% of American troops had left Vietnam. The war ended in 1975 with the fall of Saigon.

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