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Vester Hucks (1916 - 1973)

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Vester Hucks
1916 - 1973
Born
August 8, 1916
Death
July 1973
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Vester Hucks was born on August 8, 1916, and died at age 56 years old in July 1973. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Vester Hucks.
Updated: November 1, 2011
Biography ID: 39246394

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Vester Hucks passed away at age 56 years old in July 1973. Vester Hucks was born on August 8, 1916. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Vester Hucks.

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Vester Hucks lived 12 years shorter than the average Hucks family member when he died at the age of 56.
The average age of a Hucks family member is 68.
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In 1916, in the year that Vester Hucks was born, in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.

In 1927, he was merely 11 years old when in September, the Columbia Broadcasting System (later called CBS) became the second national radio network in the U.S. The first broadcast was a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from radio station WOR in Newark, New Jersey.

In 1956, he was 40 years old when this was the year that the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, became an international sensation. He began the year as a regional favorite and ended the year with 17 recordings having been on the Billboard’s Top 100 singles chart, 11 TV appearances, and a movie. Elvis scandalized adults and thrilled teens.

In 1961, at the age of 45 years old, Vester was alive when on May 5th, Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., made the first manned Project Mercury flight, MR-3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. He was the second man to go into space, the first was Yuri Gagarin - a Soviet cosmonaut.

In 1973, in the year of Vester Hucks's passing, on August 15th, amidst rising calls for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon, Congress imposed an end to the bombing of Cambodia.

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