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Leslie Best 1901 - 1968

Leslie Best of Bethune, Kershaw County, South Carolina was born on May 17, 1901, and died at age 66 years old in March 1968.
Leslie Best
Bethune, Kershaw County, South Carolina 29009
May 17, 1901
March 1968
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Leslie Best's History: 1901 - 1968

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  • 05/17
    1901

    Birthday

    May 17, 1901
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  • 03/dd
    1968

    Death

    March 1968
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    Leslie Best lived 7 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 66.
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In 1901, in the year that Leslie Best was born, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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In 1916, at the age of just 15 years old, Leslie was alive when in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.
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