Francis John Beasley
(1911 - 1996)
birchip in Birchip, VIC Australia 3483
Ballarat, VIC Australia
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Frank went from a motor mechanic to a successful businessman from 1946 being a Ford Dealer 24 years with several , and a bus proprietor , Farmer . As a father he was bent on giving his children a good education and a high work Ethic, he was the most dynamic &positive&charismatic person ,with relentless energy, a risk taker and sometimes over fair to his employees, and never forgot his humble beginnings in life & and favoured both rich and poor. Which enabled him to easily communicate to all walks of life. He loved a party & and Quite often was responsible for starting a few. AS a Son he was a hard act to follow. a fun & loving Dad Graeme
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In 1911, in the year that Francis John Beasley was born, the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.
In 1938, he was 27 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 1949, he was 38 years old when comedian Milton Berle hosted the first telethon show. It raised $1,100,000 for cancer research and lasted 16 hours. The next day, newspapers, in writing about the event, first used the word "telethon."
In 1988, when he was 77 years old, on December 21st, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie Scotland. The explosion killed all 259 people on board and another 11 on the ground. The flight had left Heathrow Airport in London less than an hour before, on its way to New York. After an exhaustive (and long) investigation it came to be believed that two individuals from Libya had planted the bomb.
In 1996, in the year of Francis John Beasley's passing, on July 5th, the first cloned mammal - "Dolly the Sheep" - was born in Scotland. She had three mothers. Dolly lived to be 6 years old and produced 6 lambs. Since, other sheep have been cloned as well as horses, pigs, deer, and bulls.
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