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Leslie James Cruickshank (1893 - 1950)
Leslie James Cruickshank was born in 1893. He was born to James Cruickshank and Laura Jane Randle Cruickshank, and we currently have no other siblings in his family tree. He died in 1950 in Wgul, Australia at age 57.
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Leslie James Cruickshank
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Leslie Cruickshank died in in Wgul, Australia
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Leslie James Cruickshank died in 1950 in Wgul, Australia at age 57. He was born in 1893. He was born to James Cruickshank and Laura Jane Randle Cruickshank, and we currently have no other siblings in his family tree.
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1893 - 1950 World Events
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In 1893, in the year that Leslie James Cruickshank was born, on May 5th, a crash on the New York Stock Exchange started a depression that lasted 4 years. It was the beginning of the Panic of 1893.
In 1905, he was just 12 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.
In 1929, he was 36 years old when on March 4th, Herbert Hoover became the 31st President of the United States. Early in his presidency, the October stock market crash - "Black Tuesday" - occurred, which lead to the Great Depression. None of his economic policies were able to make a dent in the Depression. This lead to one term and the election of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt winning the 1933 election in a landslide.
In 1938, when he was 45 years old, on October 30th, a Sunday, The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast Orson Welles' special Halloween show The War of the World's. A clever take on H.G. Wells' novel, the show began with simulated "breaking news" of an invasion by Martians. Because of the realistic nature of the "news," there was a public outcry the next day, calling for regulation by the FCC. Although the current story is that many were fooled and panicked, in reality very few people were fooled. But the show made Orson Welles' career.
In 1950, in the year of Leslie James Cruickshank's passing, on October 2, Charlie Brown appeared in the first Peanuts comic strip - created by Charles Schultz - and he was the only character in that strip. That year, Schultz said that Charlie was 4 years old, but Charlie aged a bit through the years.
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