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Walter Shirer 1915 - 1979

Walter Shirer (1915 - 1979)
Full legal name
Walter Shirer
Last Known Residence
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 19146
Born
August 12, 1915
Death
February 1979
Summary
Walter Shirer of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania was born on August 12, 1915, and died at age 63 years old in February 1979.

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Walter Shirer
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 19146
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August 12, 1915
Birthday
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Ethnicity & Family History

Negro, Citizen

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Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania United States

Education

1 Year Of High School

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Military Service

Military serial#: 33981838 Enlisted: December 14, 1945 in Deming Aaf New Mexico Military branch: No Branch Assignment Rank: Private, Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, And Enlisted Men) Terms of enlistment: One Year Enlistment
February 1979
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Walter Shirer passed away at age 63 years old in February 1979. Walter Shirer of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania was born on August 12, 1915.

Average Age & Life Expectancy

Walter Shirer lived 10 years shorter than the average Shirer family member when he died at the age of 63.
The average age of a Shirer family member is 73.
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1915 - 1979 World Events

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In 1915, in the year that Walter Shirer was born, in May, the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German torpedo. The Lusitania was a British passenger ship that was sailing from New York to Liverpool England. She sank in 18 minutes - 1,198 died and 761 survived. While travelers were the main casualty - and commodity - the Lusitania did carry wartime weapons. "Remember the Lusitania" became the rallying cry of World War 1.

In 1933, by the time he was 18 years old, the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.

In 1951, Walter was 36 years old when on February 27th, the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution (which limited the number of terms a president may serve to two) was ratified by 36 states, making it a part of the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment was both a reaction to the 4 term Roosevelt presidency and also the recognition of a long-standing tradition in American politics.

In 1966, by the time he was 51 years old, on July 1st, Medicare became available after President Johnson signed into law the Medicare Act in 1965. President Truman had received the first Medicare card since he had been the first to propose national healthcare law. insurance.

In 1979, in the year of Walter Shirer's passing, on March 28th, a partial nuclear meltdown occurred at the power plant at Three Mile Island Pennsylvania. Radiation leaked into the environment, resulting in a rating of 5 on a scale of 7 ("Accident With Wider Consequences") . It ended up costing $1 billion to clean up the site.

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