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Rita Cortez 1904 - 1978

Rita Cortez of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, FL was born on December 24, 1904, and died at age 73 years old in September 1978.
Rita Cortez
Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, FL 33139
December 24, 1904
September 1978
Female
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    1904

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    December 24, 1904
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  • 09/dd
    1978

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    September 1978
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    Rita Cortez lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 73.
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In 1904, in the year that Rita Cortez was born, the "Teddy's Bear" was first produced. After seeing a political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to kill a clubbed and tied up bear, Jewish Russian immigrant Morris Michtom - who owned a candy shop and sold stuffed animals that he and his wife made at night at the store - made a "Teddy's Bear" and put it in his shop's window. The stuffed bears were an immediate success and Michtom and his wife went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.
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In 1914, Rita was only 10 years old when in August, the world's first red and green traffic lights were installed at the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland Ohio. The electric traffic light had been invented by a policeman in Salt Lake City Utah in 1912.
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