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Lester Thornton 1907 - 1978

Lester Thornton of Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, PA was born on February 26, 1907, and died at age 71 years old in February 1978.

Lester Thornton
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Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, PA 17055
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In 1907, in the year that Lester Thornton was born, the Monongah coal mining disaster occurred on December 6th, happening at the Fairmont Coal Company’s No. 6 and No. 8 mines.. Over 361 miners were killed. Because there was no breathing apparatus at the time to help rescuers, recovery efforts were greatly hampered. It is considered the worst mining disaster in American history and led to government oversight in mining practices.
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In 1933, at the age of 26 years old, Lester was alive when on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment.
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