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Selma Skoog (1883 - 1975)

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Selma Skoog
1883 - 1975
Born
February 11, 1883
Death
September 1975
Last Known Residence
Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts 01545
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Selma Skoog of Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts was born on February 11, 1883, and died at age 92 years old in September 1975.
Updated: October 3, 2011
Biography ID: 4262314

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Selma Skoog passed away at age 92 years old in September 1975. Selma Skoog of Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts was born on February 11, 1883.

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Selma Skoog lived 16 years longer than the average Skoog family member when she died at the age of 92.
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1883 - 1975 World Events

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In 1883, in the year that Selma Skoog was born, on May 24th, the Brooklyn Bridge - one of the oldest bridges in the US - was opened to traffic. Bridge construction began in 1869 and took 14 years to complete.

In 1901, she was 18 years old when Teddy Roosevelt became the 26th President of the United States. TR, as he was known, had been Vice-President for 6 months when President William McKinley was assassinated. At age 42, he became the youngest President to serve although John Kennedy, at age 43, was the youngest President elected. He was a popular progressive and was elected to a second term in 1904 as a Republican, winning 56.4% of the popular vote and 336 electoral votes.

In 1926, Selma was 43 years old when on November 15th, NBC was founded. It was the U.S.'s first major broadcast network. Ownership of the network was split between RCA (a majority partner at 50%), its founding corporate parent General Electric (which owned 30%), and Westinghouse (which owned the remaining 20%).

In 1931, when she was 48 years old, on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.

In 1975, in the year of Selma Skoog's passing, on September 5th, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme tried to assassinate President Ford in Sacramento, California. She failed when her gun wouldn't fire. President Ford escaped a second assassination attempt 17 days later on September 22 when Sarah Jane Moore tried to shoot him in San Francisco. A bystander saw her raise her arm, grabbed it, and the shot went wild.

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