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Harry A Peterson 1920 - 2007

Harry Alfred Peterson of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California was born on November 24, 1920, and died at age 86 years old on September 20, 2007.
Harry Alfred Peterson
Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California 94040
November 24, 1920
September 20, 2007
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  • 11/24
    1920

    Birthday

    November 24, 1920
    Birthdate
    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Ethnicity & Family History

    White, Citizen
  • Nationality & Locations

    Santa Clara County, California United States
  • Early Life & Education

    4 Years Of High School
  • Military Service

    Military serial#: 19052065 Enlisted: February 25, 1941 in San Francisco California Military branch: Air Corps Rank: Private, Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, And Enlisted Men)
  • Professional Career

    Semiskilled Mechanics And Repairmen, Motor Vehicles
  • 09/20
    2007

    Death

    September 20, 2007
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
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In 1920, in the year that Harry A Peterson was born, on November 2, radio station KDKA began broadcasting in Pittsburgh, PA. This was the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States. Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of radios and the backer of the station, chose the date because of the Presidential election. People liked it because they could hear about the results of the election between Harding and Cox before the morning papers arrived. Four years later, there were 600 commercial stations broadcasting in the U.S.
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In 1933, he was just 13 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.
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