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Zelpha Bland 1933 - 1972

Zelpha Bland was born on February 17, 1933, and died at age 39 years old in September 1972. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Zelpha Bland.
Zelpha Bland
February 17, 1933
September 1972
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Zelpha Bland's History: 1933 - 1972

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    1933

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    February 17, 1933
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  • 09/dd
    1972

    Death

    September 1972
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    Cause of death
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    Zelpha Bland lived 32 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 39.
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In 1933, in the year that Zelpha Bland was born, 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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In 1945, Zelpha was merely 12 years old when on August 6th, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On August 9th, an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. At least 129,000 people were killed in the two bombings and they still remain the only use of atomic bombs in war. An invasion on mainland Japan had been planned but President Truman ordered the bombs dropped instead.
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