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Meta Massey (1896 - 1983)

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Meta Massey
1896 - 1983
Born
April 19, 1896
Death
January 1983
Last Known Residence
Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin 53405
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Meta Massey of Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin was born on April 19, 1896, and died at age 86 years old in January 1983.
Updated: November 4, 2011
Biography ID: 54796367

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Meta Massey passed away at age 86 years old in January 1983. Meta Massey of Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin was born on April 19, 1896.

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Meta Massey lived 16 years longer than the average Massey family member when she died at the age of 86.
The average age of a Massey family member is 70.
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1896 - 1983 World Events

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In 1896, in the year that Meta Massey was born, on January 4th, Utah became the 45th state in the United States. After the LDS Church banned polygamy in 1890, Utah's application for statehood became acceptable to Congress and the Utah Territory became Utah..

In 1933, when she was 37 years old, Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.

In 1943, at the age of 47 years old, Meta was alive when on September 3rd, the Armistice of Cassibile was signed in Sicily. Under the terms of the Armistice, Italy surrendered to the Allied Powers. After the Armistice was made public on September 8th, Germany attacked and occupied Italy. It took 20 months of fighting for the Allies to reach the northern borders of Italy.

In 1977, she was 81 years old when on January 21st, President Carter pardoned "draft dodgers" - men who avoided the draft during the Vietnam War. He fulfilled a campaign promise with the pardon. But it only applied to civilian evaders - the estimated 500,000 to 1 million active-duty personnel who went AWOL were not included.

In 1983, in the year of Meta Massey's passing, physicist Sally K. Ride, 32, became the first US woman astronaut in space as a crew member aboard space shuttle Challenger on June 18th. She was also the youngest (32) astronaut to go into space. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space in 1963.

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