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Laura M Lansford (1906 - 1996)

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Laura M Lansford
1906 - 1996
Born
July 16, 1906
Death
February 5, 1996
Last Known Residence
Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona 85257
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Laura M Lansford of Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona was born on July 16, 1906, and died at age 89 years old on February 5, 1996.
Updated: November 2, 2011
Biography ID: 49786879

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Laura Lansford passed away at age 89 years old on February 5, 1996. Laura M Lansford of Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona was born on July 16, 1906.

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1906 - 1996 World Events

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In 1906, in the year that Laura M Lansford was born, the great San Francisco earthquake hit, estimated at 7.8 on the Richter scale. The earthquake caused fires that raged for days and between the earthquake and the fire, about 3,000 people were killed and 80% of the City was destroyed.

In 1910, when she was only 4 years old, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated. U.S. publisher W.D. Boyce was visiting England when he became lost in the London fog. An unknown Boy Scout helped him find his way out, declining a tip (he said that he was a Boy Scout and was doing his good deed for the day). Boyce was so impressed that he incorporated the Boy Scouts of America when he returned home. Its purpose was "to teach boys patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred values."

In 1920, at the age of merely 14 years old, Laura was alive when speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.

In 1970, when she was 64 years old, 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.

In 1996, in the year of Laura M Lansford's passing, on April 3rd, Theodore Kaczynski (nicknamed the Unabomber) was arrested. His mailed or hand-delivered bombs, sent between 1978 and 1995, killed three people and injured 23 others. Diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, Kaczynski is serving 8 life sentences without the possibility of parole.

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