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Mary E Beckerleg (1916 - 2010)

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Mary E Beckerleg
1916 - 2010
Born
May 26, 1916
Death
July 29, 2010
Last Known Residence
Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut 06801
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Mary E Beckerleg of Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut was born on May 26, 1916, and died at age 94 years old on July 29, 2010.
Updated: October 5, 2011
Biography ID: 14876265

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Mary Beckerleg passed away at age 94 years old on July 29, 2010. Mary E Beckerleg of Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut was born on May 26, 1916.

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Mary E Beckerleg lived 29 years longer than the average Beckerleg family member when she died at the age of 94.
The average age of a Beckerleg family member is 65.
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In 1916, in the year that Mary E Beckerleg was born, suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.

In 1925, at the age of only 9 years old, Mary was alive when on November 28th, radio station WSM broadcast the Grand Ole Opry for the first time. Originally airing as “The WSM Barn Dance”, the Opry (a local term for "opera") was dedicated to honoring country music and in its history has featured the biggest stars and acts in country music.

In 1953, she was 37 years old when on January 20th, Dwight D. Eisenhower became the 34th President of the United States. Formerly the 1st Supreme Allied Commander Europe in World War II, Eisenhower had never previously held a political office.

In 1979, at the age of 63 years old, Mary was alive when on November 4th, Iranian militant students seized the US embassy in Teheran and held 52 American citizens and diplomats hostage for 444 days. They were released at the end of the inauguration speech of the newly elected Ronald Reagan.

In 1996, when she was 80 years old, on April 3rd, Theodore Kaczynski (nicknamed the Unabomber) was arrested. His mailed or hand-delivered bombs, sent between 1978 and 1995, killed three people and injured 23 others. Diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, Kaczynski is serving 8 life sentences without the possibility of parole.

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