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William Bell
(1912 - 1982)
updated February 06, 2019
William Bell was born on December 16, 1912. He died in February 1982 at 69 years old. We know that William Bell had been residing in Centralia, Lewis County, Washington 98531.
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William Bell passed away in February 1982 at age 69. He was born on December 16, 1912. We have no information about William's family or relationships. We know that William Bell had been residing in Centralia, Lewis County, Washington 98531.
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1912 - 1982 World Events
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In 1912, in the year that William Bell was born, Arizona was admitted to the United States in February (on Valentine's Day). It became the 48th state in the Union. Previously a Spanish - then Mexican - territory, the U.S. paid $15 million dollars for the area in 1848. Arizona was the last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the United States.
In 1925, by the time he was merely 13 years old, in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
In 1933, when he was 21 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 1975, when he was 63 years old, on September 5th, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme tried to assassinate President Ford in Sacramento, California. She failed when her gun wouldn't fire. President Ford escaped a second assassination attempt 17 days later on September 22 when Sarah Jane Moore tried to shoot him in San Francisco. A bystander saw her raise her arm, grabbed it, and the shot went wild.
In 1982, in the year of William Bell's passing, on June 30th, time ran out on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The Amendment had only received 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. First sent to the states in 1972, the Amendment stated that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex".
Other Biographies
Other William Bells
1928 - Unknown
Unknown - Unknown
Unknown - Unknown
around 1888 - May 10, 1918
around 1915 - Sep 21, 1944
around 1921 - May 25, 1940
around 1901 - Nov 23, 1942
1887 - Aug 21, 1916
around 1910 - Jun 17, 1940
Unknown - Jul 21, 1916
around 1887 - Nov 21, 1918
around 1920 - May 20, 1945
Unknown - Oct 23, 1916
Unknown - Jul 15, 1915
around 1898 - Jul 27, 1918
around 1894 - Sep 20, 1917
Unknown - Dec 14, 1914
around 1898 - Jul 31, 1917
around 1922 - Aug 27, 1944
around 1880 - Mar 24, 1918
Other Bells
Mar 24, 1879 - December 1967
Mar 29, 1904 - May 1983
May 4, 1887 - July 1967
Jan 13, 1923 - Feb 22, 2005
May 17, 1919 - May 19, 2006
Mar 24, 1924 - Feb 18, 1993
Jan 11, 1921 - January 1970
Jun 5, 1892 - June 1977
Sep 16, 1922 - Jul 21, 2005
Apr 6, 1922 - Jan 27, 2008
Aug 25, 1899 - October 1981
Oct 7, 1904 - February 1984
Nov 21, 1921 - November 1980
Jan 1, 1908 - April 1975
Apr 12, 1914 - Feb 3, 2005
Jun 13, 1923 - Jan 23, 2010
Jun 4, 1895 - July 1982
Apr 4, 1908 - Feb 24, 1993
Jun 4, 1915 - Sep 17, 2000
Jul 2, 1894 - December 1968
Other Bios
Jan 29, 1884 - November 1964
Dec 30, 1917 - Feb 11, 2008
Mar 13, 1906 - February 1982
Nov 19, 1909 - December 1983
Oct 12, 1898 - October 1968
Jul 5, 1916 - Dec 28, 1998
Apr 17, 1914 - Jun 30, 2005
Jul 29, 1908 - August 1960
Mar 25, 1909 - September 1983
Apr 27, 1906 - Sep 23, 1992
Sep 26, 1905 - Nov 8, 1994
August 1909 - March 1952
Feb 13, 1908 - June 1980
Jan 4, 1893 - November 1972
Mar 29, 1900 - July 1970
May 30, 1889 - October 1963
Feb 12, 1881 - October 1969
Jul 19, 1913 - Jan 8, 1998
Nov 9, 1886 - August 1979
Jul 3, 1913 - July 1967
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