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Leonhard Selesky 1884 - 1965

Leonhard Selesky was born in 1884 in Kings County, New York United States. He was in a relationship with Mercy (Harvey) Selesky, and had a child Leonhard H Selesky. Leonhard Selesky died at age 81 years old in 1965 in Queens County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Leonhard Selesky.

Leonhard Selesky

1884

Kings County, New York, United States

1965

Queens County, New York, United States

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1884

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1884

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Kings County, New York United States

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1965

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1965

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Queens County, New York United States
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Leonhard Selesky lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.

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In 1884, in the year that Leonhard Selesky was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.

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In 1905, he was 21 years old when the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.

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