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Watha Thompson (1911 - 1983)

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Watha Thompson
1911 - 1983
Born
July 10, 1911
Death
November 1983
Last Known Residence
Huntington, Wayne County, West Virginia 25704
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Watha Thompson of Huntington, Wayne County, West Virginia was born on July 10, 1911, and died at age 72 years old in November 1983.
Updated: October 7, 2011
Biography ID: 30635479

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Watha Thompson passed away at age 72 years old in November 1983. Watha Thompson of Huntington, Wayne County, West Virginia was born on July 10, 1911.

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Watha Thompson lived 1 year longer than the average Thompson family member when they died at the age of 72.
The average age of a Thompson family member is 71.
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In 1911, in the year that Watha Thompson was born, the first use of aircraft as an offensive weapon occurred in the Turkish-Italian War. First used for aerial reconnaissance alone, planes were then used in aerial combat to shoot down recon planes. In World War I, planes and zeppelins evolved for use in bombing.

In 1931, by the time this person was 20 years old, 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 1962, by the time this person was 51 years old, lasting from October 16th - 28th, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest that the United States and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war. The Soviet Union had been installing a nuclear missile base in Cuba. The United States established a blockade to stop the base from being completed. Through secret negotiations, war was averted: the Soviet Union agreed to dismantle their weapons in Cuba and the United States agreed to never invade Cuba and to dismantle weapons in Turkey and Italy.

In 1972, this person was 61 years old when on June 17th, 5 men were arrested by police in an attempt to bug the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington D.C.’s Watergate hotel. The burglars were found to be paid by cash from a slush fund used by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President - the official organization of President Nixon's campaign.

In 1983, in the year of Watha Thompson's passing, physicist Sally K. Ride, 32, became the first US woman astronaut in space as a crew member aboard space shuttle Challenger on June 18th. She was also the youngest (32) astronaut to go into space. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space in 1963.

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