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Floyd Benstead 1915 - 2004

Floyd Benstead of Jackson, Jackson County, MI was born on June 16, 1915, and died at age 89 years old on October 30, 2004.
Floyd Benstead
Jackson, Jackson County, MI 49203
June 16, 1915
October 30, 2004
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Floyd Benstead's History: 1915 - 2004

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  • 06/16
    1915

    Birthday

    June 16, 1915
    Birthdate
    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Ethnicity & Family History

    White, Citizen
  • Nationality & Locations

    United States
  • Early Life & Education

    Grammar School
  • Military Service

    Military serial#: 36160002 Enlisted: September 25, 1941 in Kalamazoo Michigan Military branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, Usa Rank: Private, Selectees (enlisted Men)
  • Professional Career

    Semiskilled Chauffeurs And Drivers, Bus, Taxi, Truck, And Tractor
  • 10/30
    2004

    Death

    October 30, 2004
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Unknown
    Death location
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In 1915, in the year that Floyd Benstead was born, Audrey Munson, playing a model for a sculptor in the film "Inspiration", became the first actress to shed her clothes on screen. Fearing that banning the film would mean that censors would also have to "ban Renaissance art" the film was released, with Munson in the nude scenes and a stand-in doing the acting. (Munson had previously been "America's First Supermodel" and posed nude as the model for many famous artworks.) The film was a hit with audiences.
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In 1942, at the age of 27 years old, Floyd was alive when on June 17th, Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, which lead to the development of the first atomic bomb. With the support of Canada and the United Kingdom, the Project came to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist born in New York, led the Los Alamos Laboratory that developed the actual bomb. The first artificial nuclear explosion took place near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
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