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Lela Sweeney 1904 - 1996

Lela Sweeney of Cordova, Walker County, AL was born on August 5, 1904, and died at age 91 years old on February 12, 1996.

Lela Sweeney

Cordova, Walker County, AL 35550

August 5, 1904

February 12, 1996

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August 5, 1904

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1996

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February 12, 1996

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In 1904, in the year that Lela Sweeney was born, the Russo-Japanese war began. The Russian Empire and the Japanese Empire began fighting over the territories of Manchuria and Korea. Russia wanted a warm water port on the Pacific Ocean while Japan feared growing encroachment from Russia into Asia. So the Japan fleet launched a surprise attack on the Russian Navy and a one year war began. President Roosevelt of the United States brokered peace between the two nations. It was the first time in the modern era that an Asian power showed its dominance over a European power.

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In 1962, at the age of 58 years old, Lela was alive when lasting from October 16th - 28th, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest that the United States and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war. The Soviet Union had been installing a nuclear missile base in Cuba. The United States established a blockade to stop the base from being completed. Through secret negotiations, war was averted: the Soviet Union agreed to dismantle their weapons in Cuba and the United States agreed to never invade Cuba and to dismantle weapons in Turkey and Italy.

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