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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.

Average Age & Life Expectancy

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 September 3rd, in Latrobe, PA, the first professional football game was played. The game was between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. Latrobe won 12 - 0.

In 1900, when she was only 5 years old, the U.S. helped put down Boxer Rebellion. The Boxer Rebellion took place in China, where the presence of "outsiders" (foreigners) was resented. The United States, along with Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and Russia, had business interests in China and these countries all sent troops to put down the Rebellion and keep China open to their presence and to Christian missionaries.

In 1928, by the time she was 33 years old, Mickie Mouse was born! He first appeared in Disney's Steamboat Willie, along with Minnie. Although they were in two previous shorts, this was the first to be distributed. Steamboat Willie took advantage of the new technology and was a "talkie" - music was coordinated with the animation. It became the most popular cartoon of its day.

In 1976, at the age of 81 years old, Vina was alive when on August 4th, a mysterious illness struck an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. Within a week, 25 people had died and 130 people had been hospitalized. It was the first known instance of what came to be called "Legionnaires Disease."

In 1985, in the year of Vina Hess's passing, on March 15th, the first internet domain name was registered - Symbolics.com. Symbolics, Inc., a spinoff of the MIT AI Lab, was a computer manufacturer headquartered in Massachusetts. The company no longer exists and the domain name was sold 25 years later.

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