Frank Peck (1897 - 1972)

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Jane Wyman

Added: Jul 02, 2020

Dorothy McGuire

Added: Dec 17, 2019

Deborah Kerr and Gregory Peck

Added: Sep 15, 2019

Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck

Added: May 04, 2018

M. Peck

Added: Aug 05, 2017

Allen Belenky

Added: Mar 14, 2015

Ruth, Upton, and Roland Peck

Added: Jul 30, 2014

Upton Shefford Peck, 1921

Added: Jul 30, 2014

Connie (Peck) Turner & Elmer Peck

Added: Jul 09, 2014

Kathy & Elmer Peck

Added: Jul 09, 2014

Connie, Elmer, and Kathy Peck

Added: Jul 09, 2014

Elmer and Kathy Peck

Added: Jul 09, 2014

Kathy Jane Peck

Added: Jul 09, 2014

Norman Dean Peck

Added: Jun 07, 2014

Donald Lee Peck

Added: Jun 07, 2014

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In 1897, in the year that Frank Peck was born, on March 4th, William McKinley became the 25th President of the United States. He had beaten William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election by 51% to 46.7% in the popular vote. Six months into his second term as President, McKinley was assassinated.

In 1910, when he was only 13 years old, Halley's comet, which returns past the earth every 75 - 76 years was observed photographically for the first time. Two fortuitous events occurred - photography had been invented since the last time the comet had passed and the comet was relatively close. There was panic because one astronomer claimed that the gas from its tail "would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet." People bought gas masks, "anti-comet pills" and "anti-comet umbrellas".

In 1927, by the time he was 30 years old, aviator and media darling Charles Lindbergh, age 25, made the first successful solo TransAtlantic flight. "Lucky Lindy" took off from Long Island in New York and flew to Paris, covering  3,600 statute miles and flying for 33 1⁄2-hours. His plane "The Spirit of St. Louis" was a fabric-covered, single-seat, single-engine "Ryan NYP" high-wing monoplane designed by both Lindbergh and the manufacturer's chief engineer.

In 1948, he was 51 years old when on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. The man, Nathuram Godse, shot Gandhi 3 times. He died immediately. The shooter was tried, convicted, and hung in November 1949.

In 1972, in the year of Frank Peck's passing, on September 5th, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, with the assistance of German neo-nazis, kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich. The attackers crept into the Olympic Village and abducted the athletes while they were sleeping. A German policeman was also killed.