Lily Rigg (1882 - 1954)

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Waters Joseph Rigg

Annie Morrisey Rigg

Lily Rigg

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Waters Joseph Rigg

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Annie Morrisey Rigg

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Diana Rigg The Avengers reunion

Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg, Game of Thrones

Diana Rigg, Mrs. Peel

Diana Rigg, Mrs. Bradley

Diana Rigg, Avengers

Louise Marie Pomrenke and Lisa Marie Rigg

Carol and Norman E Pomrenke

Louise Pomrenke and Lisa Pomrenke

Lisa Marie Rigg Pomrenke

Jeffery Scott Rigg

Lisa Marie (Peterson) Rigg

Lisa Marie (Peterson) Rigg

Lisa and Louise Marie Pomrenke

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In 1882, in the year that Lily Rigg was born, on September 4th, the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in the U.S. - at 255-257 Pearl Street - was flipped by Thomas Edison. It lit one square mile of lower Manhattan and was powered by coal. The "electrical age" had begun.

In 1908, by the time she was 26 years old, a mysterious Siberian explosion leveled over 770 square miles of forest. There were no human casualties. Explanations of the explosion have included a comet, meteorite, natural atomic explosion, or a crashed UFO. Although it is called an impact event - the largest one in recorded earth history - there is no crater and it is widely thought that the explosion was caused by a meteor exploding 3 to 6 miles above the earth.

In 1919, when she was 37 years old, in June, the Treaty of Versailles - officially ending World War I - was signed. The European Allies demanded "compensation by Germany for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allies and their property by the aggression of Germany by land, by sea and from the air.” The requirement of compensation is seen by most as the reason for the collapse of the German economy and gave rise to the rule of Hitler.

In 1941, by the time she was 59 years old, on June 25th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, prohibiting racial discrimination in the defense industry. EO 8802 was the first federal action to prohibit employment discrimination - without prejudice as to "race, creed, color, or national origin" - in the U.S. Civil Rights groups had planned a march on Washington D.C. to protest for equal rights but with the signing of the Order, they canceled the March.

In 1954, in the year of Lily Rigg's passing, from April 22 through June 17th, the Army v. McCarthy hearings were held. The U.S. Army accused Roy Cohn (chief counsel to Senator McCarthy and later trusted mentor of Donald Trump) of blackmail. McCarthy and Cohn accused the U.S. Army of harboring communists. The Army allegations were found to be true. The U.S. Senate later censured McCarthy.