Sylvia Melamed (1903 - 1978)

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

Sylvia's Family

Add a parent

Add a parent

Sylvia Melamed Add a partner Add a child Add a partner Add a child

Add a sibling

We currently do not have photos of Sylvia Melamed. Below are potential family photos that share Sylvia's last name or surname. Pictures really do say a thousand words. Add photos of Sylvia during various points of her life

Add photo

Basia Melamed

Added: Mar 18, 2017

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

Post

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

In 1903, in the year that Sylvia Melamed was born, the United States Department of Commerce and Labor was created by President Theodore Roosevelt to control the excesses of big business. Renamed the Department of Commerce 10 years later, many departments concerned with workers were transferred to the Department of Labor at that time. Another spin-off, the Bureau of Corporations, became the Federal Trade Commission.

In 1911, Sylvia was merely 8 years old when the first use of aircraft as an offensive weapon occurred in the Turkish-Italian War. First used for aerial reconnaissance alone, planes were then used in aerial combat to shoot down recon planes. In World War I, planes and zeppelins evolved for use in bombing.

In 1921, by the time she was 18 years old, hugely popular Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, silent film star, was arrested for rape and manslaughter after an actress died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials and the jury wrote a formal letter apologizing for the charges, but his career never recovered. His films were at first banned - the ban was lifted after a year - and he was mostly ostracized by the community. He died at 46..

In 1964, by the time she was 61 years old, on June 11th, activist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa for conspiring to overthrow the state (because of his numerous anti-apartheid activities). He served 27 years in prison.

In 1978, in the year of Sylvia Melamed's passing, on November 18th, Jim Jones's Peoples Temple followers committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana - where they had moved, from San Francisco, as a group. Jones was the leader of the cult and ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch, which they did. Whole families (women and children included) died - more than 900 people in all.