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Monica Basel Spurlock 1916 - 2009

Monica Basel Spurlock (1916 - 2009)
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Monica Basel Spurlock
Last Known Residence
Texas
Born
October 2, 1916
Death
May 30, 2009
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Monica Basel Spurlock of Texas was born on October 2, 1916, and died at age 92 years old on May 30, 2009.

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Monica Spurlock passed away at age 92 years old on May 30, 2009. Monica Basel Spurlock of Texas was born on October 2, 1916.

Average Age & Life Expectancy

Monica Basel Spurlock lived 21 years longer than the average Spurlock family member when she died at the age of 92.
The average age of a Spurlock family member is 71.
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1916 - 2009 World Events

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In 1916, in the year that Monica Basel Spurlock 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 1939, when she was 23 years old, on the 1st of September, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. On September 17th, the Soviet Union invaded Poland as well. Poland expected help from France and the United Kingdom, since they had a pact with both. But no help came. By October 6th, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany held full control of the previously Polish lands. Eventually, the invasion of Poland lead to World War II.

In 1940, she was 24 years old when on September 16th, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, was enacted - the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. Men between 21 and 36 were required to register with their draft boards. When World War II began, men between 18 and 45 were subject to service and men up to 65 were required to register.

In 1952, at the age of 36 years old, Monica was alive when on February 6th, George VI of England died from a coronary thrombosis and complications due to lung cancer. His eldest daughter, age 25, immediately ascended the throne as Elizabeth II and her coronation was on June 2 1953.

In 1960, she was 44 years old when on May 1st, an American CIA U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the Soviet Union. Powers ejected and survived but was captured. The U.S. claimed that the U-2 was a "weather plane" but Powers was convicted in the Soviet Union of espionage. He was released in 1962 after 1 year, 9 months and 10 days in prison.

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