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Floyd Halling 1920 - 1981

Floyd Halling (1920 - 1981)
Full legal name
Floyd Halling
Last Known Residence
Arco, Lincoln County, Minnesota 56113
Born
November 22, 1920
Death
October 1981
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Floyd Halling of Arco, Lincoln County, Minnesota was born on November 22, 1920, and died at age 60 years old in October 1981.

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Arco, Lincoln County, Minnesota 56113
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November 22, 1920
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October 1981
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Floyd Halling passed away at age 60 years old in October 1981. Floyd Halling of Arco, Lincoln County, Minnesota was born on November 22, 1920.

Average Age & Life Expectancy

Floyd Halling lived 15 years shorter than the average Halling family member when he died at the age of 60.
The average age of a Halling family member is 75.
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1920 - 1981 World Events

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In 1920, in the year that Floyd Halling was born, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.

In 1938, Floyd was 18 years old when on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."

In 1943, when he was 23 years old, on September 3rd, the Armistice of Cassibile was signed in Sicily. Under the terms of the Armistice, Italy surrendered to the Allied Powers. After the Armistice was made public on September 8th, Germany attacked and occupied Italy. It took 20 months of fighting for the Allies to reach the northern borders of Italy.

In 1968, when he was 48 years old, on April 4th, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader, was shot and killed by an assassin in Memphis. James Earl Ray was apprehended and plead guilty to shooting Dr. King. Ray died in jail in 1998.

In 1981, in the year of Floyd Halling's passing, on January 20th, Ronald Reagan became the 40th President of the United States. He ran against the incumbent, Jimmy Carter, and won 50.7% of the popular vote to Carter's 41.0%.

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