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Wilfredo Velez-Ruiz 1928 - 2005

Wilfredo Velez of San Juan, San Juan County, PR was born on September 4, 1928, and died at age 77 years old on September 24, 2005. Wilfredo Velez was buried at Puerto Rico National Cemetery Section K Site 4074 #50 Avenida Cementerio Nacional, in Bayamon, Pr.
Wilfredo Velez
San Juan, San Juan County, PR 00908
September 4, 1928
September 24, 2005
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  • 09/4
    1928

    Birthday

    September 4, 1928
    Birthdate
    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Nationality & Locations

    San Juan, San Juan County, PR 00908
  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Air Force Rank attained: SSGT Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii, Korea, Vietnam
  • 09/24
    2005

    Death

    September 24, 2005
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    Unknown
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    Puerto Rico National Cemetery Section K Site 4074 #50 Avenida Cementerio Nacional, in Bayamon, Pr 00961
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In 1928, in the year that Wilfredo Velez-Ruiz was born, 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.
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In 1933, at the age of only 5 years old, Wilfredo was alive when 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.
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