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Sr M B Weitz (1901 - 1981)

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Sr M B Weitz
1901 - 1981
Born
September 8, 1901
Death
October 13, 1981
Last Known Residence
Villa Maria, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania 16155
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Sr M B Weitz of Villa Maria, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania was born on September 8, 1901, and died at age 80 years old on October 13, 1981.
Updated: October 6, 2011
Biography ID: 21142639

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Sr M Weitz passed away at age 80 years old on October 13, 1981. Sr M B Weitz of Villa Maria, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania was born on September 8, 1901.

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Sr M B Weitz lived 4 years longer than the average Weitz family member when they died at the age of 80.
The average age of a Weitz family member is 76.
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In 1901, in the year that Sr M B Weitz was born, 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 1924, by the time this person was 23 years old, in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.

In 1942, Sr M was 41 years old when on June 17th, Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, which lead to the development of the first atomic bomb. With the support of Canada and the United Kingdom, the Project came to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist born in New York, led the Los Alamos Laboratory that developed the actual bomb. The first artificial nuclear explosion took place near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945.

In 1975, this person was 74 years old when in January, Popular Mechanics featured the Altair 8800 on it's cover. The Altair home computer kit allowed consumers to build and program their own personal computers. Thousands were sold in the first month.

In 1981, in the year of Sr M B Weitz's passing, on August 1st, MTV debuted. It was the first music video TV channel. The first music video played was the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" - the second was Pat Benatar's "You Better Run".

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