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Opal Gillen 1916 - 1976

Opal Gillen was born on August 20, 1916, and died at age 60 years old in December 1976. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Opal Gillen.

Opal Gillen

August 20, 1916

December 1976

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1916

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August 20, 1916

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1976

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December 1976

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Opal Gillen lived 13 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 60.

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In 1916, in the year that Opal Gillen was born, visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

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In 1928, at the age of only 12 years old, Opal was alive when aviatrix Amelia Earhart, age 31, became the first woman to fly solo across North America and back in August. In June, she had been part of a 3 man crew that flew the Atlantic Ocean but since she had no instrument training, she couldn't fly the plane - she kept the flight log. The North American flight became one of her many "firsts" as a female pilot.

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