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Florence Kennedy (1877 - 1949)
Florence Kennedy was born in 1877. She was born to Smethurst James Kennedy and Stanlake Kennedy, and we currently have no other siblings in her family tree. She died in 1949 in Wgul, Australia at age 72.
Florence Kennedy Biography
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Florence Kennedy
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Florence Kennedy died in in Wgul, Australia
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Florence Kennedy died in 1949 in Wgul, Australia at 72 years old. She was born in 1877. She was born to Smethurst James Kennedy and Stanlake Kennedy, and we currently have no other siblings in her family tree.
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Victoria Australia Death Records: 1836 - 1985
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1877 - 1949 World Events
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In 1877, in the year that Florence Kennedy was born, on March 2nd, the U.S. presidential election of 1876 was ended with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner. Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote in November 1876 but 20 votes in the electoral college were in dispute. An informal agreement was made in which Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana, ending Reconstruction in the South. So, on March 4th, Rutherford B. Hayes became the 19th President of the United States.
In 1886, Florence was just 9 years old when on February 14th, the first train left Los Angeles for the East -by the way of the transcontinental railroad - with a cargo of oranges. Due to irrigation and the import of water, Los Angeles was the ideal place to grow oranges - which became a popular addition to Christmas stockings.
In 1906, at the age of 29 years old, Florence was alive when President Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Prize for Peace. The award was considered controversial at the time because many thought that he was an imperialist. But he had brokered peace between Russia and Japan a year previous and had allowed a dispute between Mexico and the U.S. to go to arbitration, resolving the issue peacefully rather than resorting to military conflict. For these two reasons, the Nobel Prize committee chose him for the Peace Prize.
In 1935, she was 58 years old when the BOI's name (the Bureau of Investigation) was changed to the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and it officially became a separate agency with the Department of Justice. J. Edgar Hoover, the Chief of the BOI, continued in his office and became the first Director of the FBI. The FBI's responsibility is to "detect and prosecute crimes against the United States".
In 1949, in the year of Florence Kennedy's passing, on April 4th, NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was established. Twelve nations originally signed the North Atlantic Treaty - the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. Greece, Turkey, and West Germany later joined. Today, there are 26 nations in NATO.
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