Ethel A Williams (1904 - 2004)

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Thomas Williams

Added: Jul 05, 2020

Hugh Williams

Added: Jul 05, 2020

Orell Williams Jr

Added: Jun 29, 2020

Emily Ann (Williams) Moulsdale

Added: May 07, 2020

Williams family

Added: Apr 14, 2020

Dorothy Edwina W. Watford Williams

Added: Mar 24, 2020

Ronny Williams

Added: Mar 17, 2020

Brothers All Privates First Class

Added: Mar 06, 2020

Dale Eugene Williams

Added: Feb 15, 2020

Myrna Loy

Added: Feb 02, 2020

Myrna Loy

Added: Feb 02, 2020

James Walter Williams Family

Added: Jan 12, 2020

Clara Agnes (Laughrey) Williams Rothermel Lundy

Added: Jan 04, 2020

From left: Arthur Edward Gentry, Anthony Costanza, and Frederick Eugene Harrison (born Williams)

Added: Nov 19, 2019

Herbert Emrys Williams

Added: Nov 17, 2019

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In 1904, in the year that Ethel A Williams was born, the first underground line of the New York City subway system opened. London's underground system was opened in 1863 and Boston opened one in 1897, but New York quickly became the largest system in the U.S. More than 100,000 people paid 5 cents to ride under Manhattan that first day.

In 1922, at the age of 18 years old, Ethel 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 1933, at the age of 29 years old, Ethel was alive when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.

In 1955, she was 51 years old when in January, President Eisenhower sent direct aid to South Vietnam. In February, U.S. advisors were sent to train troops.

In 1996, when she was 92 years old, on April 3rd, Theodore Kaczynski (nicknamed the Unabomber) was arrested. His mailed or hand-delivered bombs, sent between 1978 and 1995, killed three people and injured 23 others. Diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, Kaczynski is serving 8 life sentences without the possibility of parole.