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Nancy P Wyly (1921 - 1991)

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Nancy P Wyly
1921 - 1991
Born
May 1, 1921
Death
August 1991
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Nancy P Wyly was born on May 1, 1921, and died at age 70 years old in August 1991. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Nancy P Wyly.
Updated: October 7, 2011
Biography ID: 31108128

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Nancy Wyly passed away at age 70 years old in August 1991. Nancy P Wyly was born on May 1, 1921. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Nancy P Wyly.

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Nancy P Wyly lived 5 years shorter than the average Wyly family member when she died at the age of 70.
The average age of a Wyly family member is 75.
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In 1921, in the year that Nancy P Wyly was born, the silent film The Sheik, directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres (also featuring Adolphe Menjou) debuted on October 21st. Critics weren't enthusiastic but the public loved it - in the first few weeks 125,000 people had seen the movie - and it eventually exceeded $1 million in ticket sales. And Rudolph Valentino, an Italian American, became the heartthrob of a female generation.

In 1949, at the age of 28 years old, Nancy was alive when comedian Milton Berle hosted the first telethon show. It raised $1,100,000 for cancer research and lasted 16 hours. The next day, newspapers, in writing about the event, first used the word "telethon."

In 1959, she was 38 years old when on August 8th, Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States. The US flag was changed to show 50 stars.

In 1978, at the age of 57 years old, Nancy was alive when on November 18th, Jim Jones's Peoples Temple followers committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana - where they had moved, from San Francisco, as a group. Jones was the leader of the cult and ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch, which they did. Whole families (women and children included) died - more than 900 people in all.

In 1991, in the year of Nancy P Wyly's passing, on January 16th, Allied forces began the first phase of Operation Desert Storm. Saddam Hussein's forces had previously invaded the sovereign state of Kuwait and the focus of the operation was to remove his Iraqi troops from Kuwait. On February 24th, the ground war began. Within 100 hours, American ground troops declared Kuwait liberated.

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