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Reginald Conran Wyly (1880 - 1965)

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Reginald Conran Wyly
1880 - 1965
Born
1880
Death
1965
Melbourne, Australia
Last Known Residence
Melbourne Australia
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Reginald Conran Wyly of Melbourne Australia was born in 1880 to Alexander Pe Wyly and Alexa Julia Glance Wyly. Reginald Wyly died at age 85 years old in 1965 in Melbourne.
Updated: September 3, 2013
Biography ID: 145248343

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Reginald Wyly passed away at age 85 years old in 1965 in Melbourne. Reginald Conran Wyly of Melbourne Australia was born in 1880 to Alexander Pe Wyly and Alexa Julia Glance Wyly.

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Reginald Conran Wyly lived 10 years longer than the average Wyly family member when he died at the age of 85.
The average age of a Wyly family member is 75.
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1880 - 1965 World Events

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In 1880, in the year that Reginald Conran Wyly was born, on February 2nd the city of Wabash, Indiana became the third city in the world to be lit by electricity.

In 1901, Reginald was 21 years old when Edward VII succeeded Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria of England had become Queen in 1837 and reigned until her death in 1901. Her 63 year reign was the longest in history prior to Elizabeth II who recently broke her record. The time during which she led the country was known as the Victorian era and she presided over great changes in the United Kingdom, including the expansion of the British Empire and the Industrial Revolution.

In 1927, when he was 47 years old, aviator and media darling Charles Lindbergh, age 25, made the first successful solo TransAtlantic flight. "Lucky Lindy" took off from Long Island in New York and flew to Paris, covering  3,600 statute miles and flying for 33 1⁄2-hours. His plane "The Spirit of St. Louis" was a fabric-covered, single-seat, single-engine "Ryan NYP" high-wing monoplane designed by both Lindbergh and the manufacturer's chief engineer.

In 1947, when he was 67 years old, in June, the Marshall Plan was proposed to help European nations recover economically from World War II. It passed the conservative Republican Congress in March of 1948. After World War I, the economic devastation of Germany caused by burdensome reparations payments led to the rise of Hitler. The Allies didn't want this to happen again and the Marshall Plan was devised to make sure that those conditions didn't arise again.

In 1965, in the year of Reginald Conran Wyly's passing, the television show "I Spy" premiered in the fall season on NBC. The stars were Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, making Cosby the first African American to headline a television show. Four stations - in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama - refused to air the show.

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