![]() In 1977, in the year of Maria Franz's passing, on January 20th, Jimmy Carter became the 39th President of the United States. Since most returning vets immediately found work, less than 20% of the unemployment benefits were distributed. Benefits provided for veterans to return to school (high school, vocational school, or college), obtain low interest home mortgages and low interest business loans, and (if needed) one year of unemployment insurance. Bill, was signed into law, pushed through by the veteran's organizations. In 1944, Maria was 52 years old when on June 22nd, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, called the G.I. ![]() A madam from a brothel in which he was hiding became an informer for the FBI and, after a shootout with FBI agents, Dillinger was shot and died. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI - although many in the public saw him as a "Robin Hood". His gang had robbed banks and police stations, among other charges, and he was being hunted by J. In 1934, when she was 42 years old, on July 22nd, gangster John Dillinger was killed in Chicago. Scurvy and rickets were both huge problems in sailors that were at sea for extended time and the addition of vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium in their diets helped eradicate the problem. In 1906, Maria was merely 14 years old when English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concluded that vitamins are essential to the human body and that a lack of vitamins caused scurvy and rickets. But she was never acquitted in the public mind. Lizzie was accused of the crime and on June 20th of the next year, she was acquitted of murder by a jury. In 1892, in the year that Maria Franz was born, on August 4th, the father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden were found murdered. ![]() Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Maria's lifetime.
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