Spencer A Rappold (1916 - 2000)

Spencer's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Rappold family tree.

Spencer's Family

Add a parent

Add a parent

Spencer A Rappold Add a partner Add a child Add a partner Add a child

Add a sibling

What do you remember about Spencer A Rappold? Share your memories of special moments and stories you have heard about him. Or just leave a comment to show the world that Spencer is remembered.

• View Profile
• View Favorites
• Send Message

Post

Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Spencer's lifetime

In 1916, in the year that Spencer A Rappold was born, visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

In 1939, when he was 23 years old, in May, Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, reached a total international gross of $6.5 million which made it (to then) the most successful sound film of all time. First released in December 1937, it was originally dubbed "Disney's Folly" but the premiere received a standing ovation from the audience. At the 11th Academy Awards in February 1939, Walt Disney won an Academy Honorary Award - a full-size Oscar statuette and seven miniature ones - for Snow White.

In 1955, at the age of 39 years old, Spencer was alive when on September 10th the TV show "Gunsmoke" debuted on CBS. It went on to be television's longest-running western. Matt Dillon, Chester, Doc Adams, and Miss Kitty became household names.

In 1974, at the age of 58 years old, Spencer was alive when on July 30th, the House Judiciary Committee adopted three articles of impeachment against President Nixon. He was charged with obstruction of justice, failure to uphold laws, and the refusal to produce material subpoenaed by the committee. In order to avoid impeachment, Richard M. Nixon announced that he would resign on August 8th, the first President to do so.

In 1987, Spencer was 71 years old when was the first time that a criminal in the United States - a serial rapist - was convicted through the use of DNA evidence.