Francis Riley (1902 - 1970)

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Patrick F Riley

Added: Sep 26, 2019

Patrick F. Riley Gravestone

Added: Sep 26, 2019

Charlie Lee (Riley) Gillentine

Added: Aug 15, 2018

Lately Little-Riley

Added: Jun 22, 2018

Lately Little-Riley

Added: Jun 22, 2018

Cornisha Thomas (Rhem-Riley)

Added: Feb 24, 2018

Doshie Lee Hutto Riley

Added: Jan 01, 2017

Doshie Lee Hutto Riley

Added: Jan 01, 2017

Doshie Lee (Hutto) Riley gravesite

Added: Jan 01, 2017

Thomas & Jennifer (Podlesnik) Riley

Added: May 15, 2015

Emily Dolores (Riley) Seed

Added: Feb 28, 2015

1st Band at Lincoln School 1955

Added: Feb 18, 2015

Emily Seed

Added: Feb 04, 2015

Norman Marmaduke Sloan Family

Added: Jan 23, 2015

Ricky Riley

Added: Dec 17, 2014

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In 1902, in the year that Francis Riley was born, the first Rose Bowl game was played in Pasadena, California. Called the "Tournament East–West football game" at the time, the Michigan Wolverines (East) played the Stanford Indians (West) - the Wolverines won 49 - 0. (The Stanford captain requested an end to the game with 8 minutes remaining.) The Tournament of Roses Parade began in 1890 and the football game began as a way to boost tourism in the area.

In 1914, when he was just 12 years old, in only his second big-screen appearance, Charlie Chaplin played the Little Tramp, his most famous character. The silent film was made in January and released the following year. Of the character, Chaplin said: "On the way to the wardrobe I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. I wanted everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large." The moustache was added to age his 24-year-old face without masking his expressions.

In 1933, he was 31 years old when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.

In 1969, Francis was 67 years old when in August, a previously planned small concert turned into a (free) more than 400,000 strong gathering of attendees and bands at Max Yasgur's farm in upstate New York - now called Woodstock. Just some of the 32 acts: Richie Havens, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe, Santana, The Band, and Sly and the Family Stone.

In 1970, in the year of Francis Riley's passing, on April 10th, Paul McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles. (John Lennon had previously told the band that he was leaving but hadn't publicly announced it.) By the end of the year, each Beatle had his own album.