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Gertrude B Davidson (1914 - 2010)
Gertrude B Davidson was born on August 30, 1914. She died on February 19, 2010 at age 95. We know that Gertrude B Davidson had been residing in Dousman, Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
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Gertrude B Davidson passed away on February 19, 2010 at 95 years old. She was born on August 30, 1914. We are unaware of information about Gertrude's family. We know that Gertrude B Davidson had been residing in Dousman, Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
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In 1914, in the year that Gertrude B Davidson was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
In 1931, at the age of 17 years old, Gertrude was alive when on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.
In 1949, she was 35 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 1978, she was 64 years old when on July 25th, Louise Brown, the first "test-tube baby", was born at Oldham Hospital in London. Louise was conceived through IVF (in vitro fertilization), a controversial and experimental procedure at the time.
In 1990, Gertrude was 76 years old when after 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela, the leader of the movement to end South African apartheid was released on February 11th 1990.
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