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Vina Hess 1895 - 1985

Vina Hess (1895 - 1985)
Full legal name
Vina Hess
Last Known Residence
Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire 03820
Born
September 10, 1895
Death
February 1985
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Vina Hess of Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire was born on September 10, 1895, and died at age 89 years old in February 1985.

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Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire 03820
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September 10, 1895
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Vina Hess passed away at age 89 years old in February 1985. Vina Hess of Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire was born on September 10, 1895.

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Vina Hess lived 15 years longer than the average Hess family member when she died at the age of 89.
The average age of a Hess family member is 74.
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1895 - 1985 World Events

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In 1895, in the year that Vina Hess was born, on March 15th, in County Tipperary, Ireland, Michael Cleary killed his wife of 8 years, Bridget, and burned her body. His defense was that his "wife" was a changeling that was left in his real wife's place when she was abducted by fairies. He was nonetheless convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter. He spent 15 years in prison.

In 1914, by the time she was 19 years old, in August, the world's first red and green traffic lights were installed at the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland Ohio. The electric traffic light had been invented by a policeman in Salt Lake City Utah in 1912.

In 1935, by the time she was 40 years old, the BOI's name (the Bureau of Investigation) was changed to the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and it officially became a separate agency with the Department of Justice. J. Edgar Hoover, the Chief of the BOI, continued in his office and became the first Director of the FBI. The FBI's responsibility is to "detect and prosecute crimes against the United States".

In 1940, at the age of 45 years old, Vina was alive when on November 5th, President Franklin Roosevelt was elected to a third term, defeating Wendell Willkie of Indiana (a corporate lawyer). Roosevelt running for a third term was controversial. But the U.S. was emerging from the Great Recession and he promised that he would not involve the country in any foreign war (which of course changed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor). Roosevelt defeated Willkie in the popular vote by 54.7 to 44.8% and in the Electoral College 449 to 82.

In 1985, in the year of Vina Hess's passing, on March 7th, the song "We Are the World" was released as a charity effort to alleviate the African famine. The song was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and produced by Quincy Jones. They were joined by 37 other famous singers in the recording studio and a phenomena had begun

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