Ethel Tasker (1906 - 1986)

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William Tasker; Swansea, Wales

Connie Tasker Benning

Connie Tasker Benning

Ethel Rosina Tasker. 1909-1993

Constance Tasker & George Benning, 1929 marriage license

Connie Tasker d'Albert & Daniel Pinna

Connie Tasker d'Albert and Daniel Pinna

Mary Ann (Jones) Tasker Birthplace

William Tasker

Nettie Mae Tasker Mills and Roy Alvin Mills

Connie Tasker Benning & daughter, Seattle, WA 1931

Connie Tasker D'albert & Ethel Tasker Allen

Nancy Allen & Connie Tasker

Eileen Constance 'Connie' Tasker D'Albert

Mary Ann Tasker, Heine & Connie Barrett, Long Beach, CA

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In 1906, in the year that Ethel Tasker was born, English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concluded that vitamins are essential to the human body and that a lack of vitamins caused scurvy and rickets. Scurvy and rickets were both huge problems in sailors that were at sea for extended time and the addition of vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium in their diets helped eradicate the problem.

In 1914, at the age of merely 8 years old, Ethel was alive when in June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Yugoslavian national. Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to Serbia. Other major powers took sides - and World War I began: Austria declared war on Serbia; Germany on Russia and France; Britain on Germany . . . and on it went until most of the world was embroiled in the war.

In 1943, by the time she was 37 years old, on March 31st, the Broadway musical Oklahoma! opened. Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (the first of their string of successful collaborations), audiences loved it. The musical ran for 2,212 performances originally and was made into a movie in 1954.

In 1968, she was 62 years old when on January 31st, the North Vietnamese launched the Tet Offensive, a turning point in the Vietnam War. 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces swarmed into South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese and US troops held off the offensive but it was such fierce fighting that the U.S. public began to turn against the war.

In 1986, in the year of Ethel Tasker's passing, on September 8th, the Oprah Winfrey Show went into national syndication. A popular talk show, it was number 1 in the ratings since its debut. The last show aired on May 25, 2011.