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Maggie Towles (1883 - 1968)
Maggie Towles was born on December 14, 1883. She died in January 1968 at age 84. We know that Maggie Towles had been residing in Cairo, Randolph County, Missouri 65239.
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Maggie Towles passed away in January 1968 at 84 years old. She was born on December 14, 1883. We have no information about Maggie's immediate family. We know that Maggie Towles had been residing in Cairo, Randolph County, Missouri 65239.
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1883 - 1968 World Events
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In 1883, in the year that Maggie Towles was born, on February 28th, in Boston MA, the first vaudeville theater was opened by Benjamin Franklin Keith.
In 1907, by the time she was 24 years old, the second Hague peace conference was called by Russia in the Netherlands. While nothing was settled regarding the matter of peace among nations, many resolutions were passed (and accepted by many nations) about the conventions of war - especially the protection of noncombatants.
In 1915, when she was 32 years old, the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.
In 1936, Maggie was 53 years old when on November 2nd, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) debuted the world's first regular high-definition television service. The channel had a short schedule - Monday through Saturday, 3:00p to 4:00p and 9:00p to 10:00p. The first broadcast was "Opening of the BBC Television Service".
In 1968, in the year of Maggie Towles's passing, on April 4th, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader, was shot and killed by an assassin in Memphis. James Earl Ray was apprehended and plead guilty to shooting Dr. King. Ray died in jail in 1998.
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