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Vina Hess (1895 - 1985)

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Vina Hess
1895 - 1985
Born
September 10, 1895
Death
February 1985
Last Known Residence
Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire 03820
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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.
Updated: October 1, 2011
Biography ID: 2828778

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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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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 1914, by the time she was 19 years old, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.

In 1920, by the time she was 25 years old, the Volstead Act became law. Formally called the National Prohibition Act, the Volstead Act enabled law enforcement agencies to carry out the 18th Amendment. It said that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, or furnish any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act" and defined intoxicating liquor as any beverage containing more than 0.5% alcohol by volume.

In 1931, at the age of 36 years old, Vina was alive when on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.

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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